Good week - and bad

From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/

Well, the weather's been great and the forecast is good too. My golf blog shows the lovely afternoon we had at Fraserburgh on Tuesday, and I headed south on Wednesday and played at Glenbervie with this man - remember him?



I stayed overnight with Brian and Mary and the original intention had been to head straight to the airport on Thursday morning and catch a flight to Campbeltown for the much delayed corporate golf day at Macrihanish, carried forward from last year - remember when two planes broke down and we had to cancel?

That was Plan A, but, unfortunately, it wasn't to be. I've been carrying a knee injury (to my left knee - my "good" one) ever since we were at Boat of Garten. You never get a level stance there and your limbs are always fighting against the slopes when you try to swing. It's been niggling away, but after nine holes on Wednesday, it was getting worse and I could hardly walk at the end. I had to phone my host and enquire whether I could get a buggy at Macrihanish as I certainly couldn't walk 18 holes. No chance he said - it's a site of Special Scientific/Nature Interest apparently. Oh well.

So, I ended up having breakfast with Mary and then stopping off at Dawn's on the way home, so it wasn't all a complete waste of time, although I had to cancel my planned supper with Barry, Helen and Dawn.

Mary made me laugh - and demonstrated a very Central Belt, blinkered point of view when we were talking about my aborted trip to Macrihanish. "Where's that?" - "How do you get there?" "Do you have to fly?" - "Why can't you catch a train or a bus, or drive?". Apart from the obvious geographical difficulties, Mary - don't you realise that there are no train services to any rural areas in Scotland - unless you happen to be between the big cities, forget it - and it's been that way since Dr. Beeching's cuts in 1963. "Who's he?".

Dawn is a bit more mobile now - she can drive now and she'll probably be back at work in a week or so. She's hoping for either a phased return or to be allowed to do home working. She gave me her laptop for Ross to sort out - he's going to have to take it back some time - he'll have to take my car - he's never been there, but the sat nav should do it for him - although it will have to be the weekend.

So, I cancelled my planned outing at Newmachar as well this afternoon and now I'm sitting here staring at the sun and boiling hot in my office - wish I was out there. I was about to cancel my medal at Banchory in the morning as well, but when I phoned the pro, I had a last minute thought and asked him, on the off chance, if the buggy was available tomorrow morning? He only has two and they're usually pre-booked by those that need to use them all the time, but, by chance, one was available, so I've nabbed it and will get a game tomorrow after all - and hopefully my knee will have recovered enough so that I can go on our next WHW training exercise walking the fairly flat track round Loch Muick on Sunday morning.

Tonight is our first ever summer headbang at Dave's and we're planning a BBQ instead of the usual curry take-away. Tomorrow afternoon we've got Luca and he and his parents are staying with us tomorrow night.

That's about all, apart from a quick view of the letter Ross received yesterday (as referred to in Jo's blog):