We've had some nice meals this week - even steak and kidney pie last night! Tonight was nice too - noodles - but I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have done as I got indigestion imploring certain parties to get their finger out and at least phone their customers back - grrr - I thought I was coming home to relax after a hard day, but it's as frustrating here as it was in Fraserburgh today. Oh how I hate having to chivvy you-know-who.
Anyway, it is getting milder now - we even had a smattering of rain today - although we need a lot more to clear the golf course to allow me to get a game on Sunday. The snow has been around for so long and the weather has been so bright with clear skies that mean the overnight temperature stays low and keeps re-freezing the lying snow.
Even in our street, there's noticeable signs of low long the snow has been around and how frozen it still is. The photo below is from our front rockery - the broom was there when I got back from Marrakech. I asked Jo if she had done it as a kind of harbinger of spring - when the broom finally falls to the ground, will that officially signal the end of winter? I think the groundhog was right.
On the common ground, the kids at number one, with their Dad's help, built an igloo, which still stands:
What else is new? Well, there's a quiz night at the golf club tomorrow - and I'm meeting Dawn and Barry at Pitlochry for lunch on Saturday. We agreed to meet up when our Dad's affairs were all sorted out. We'll go to the Moulin Inn - a favourite. Assuming there's no more snow, I'll go down the tourist trail over Glenshee. Jo can't make it as she's already arranged to go in to Aberdeen to meet her old school buddies for lunch. I originally thought I would be heading to the Central Belt as I thought I was getting a corporate invitation to the Calcutta Cup match at Murrayfield on Saturday, but it hasn't come through - I'm not concerned, however, as it means I can meet Barry and Dawn and still be back home in time to watch the match on TV.
We'll be watching the news keenly tomorrow. BA and Unite have not resolved their differences yet. BA's web site says that Unite are obliged to give them 7 days notice of any strike action, so, if they don't do this tomorrow, we should be OK to fly out next Friday - fingers crossed!
I didn't get any tickets in the ballot for Wimbledon this year, but Dave Williamson and I had a pact that we would both apply and whoever was successful would invite the other - and he was the lucky one. The tickets are for the Thursday - 2 days before I was planning to go down anyway for my annual trip to Lord's for the cricket. By coincidence, Crosby, Stills and Nash are playing at the Royal Albert Hall that weekend, so we've now got tickets for that too! OK - what to do on the Friday between the tennis and the cricket? Would you believe, it's the Henley Regatta that week - another possible box to tick.
It's funny how things sometime fall in to place - and also how often the "London Bus" scenario plays out. I've always wanted to go to a concert at the Royal Albert Hall - we tried a few years ago when Cream played their reunion gigs. Johanne has always wanted to go too and so we've been watching for a suitable opportunity, and it came along a couple of weeks ago, when we noticed that Jools Holland was playing there in November, so we bought tickets for the 4 of us - Kilgours and Stewarts. Now, I'm going there twice this year. It never rains but it pours.
That's all I can think of for now - have a good one, and keep blogging!
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