From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/
The internet - Twitter, Facebook etc - is full of comments about Obama's election victory - mostly favourable, but that's from a European perspective, of course. It was supposed to be neck and neck but I spotted an interesting comment from Bob Dylan on Facebook yesterday - "we’re not fooled by the media and we think it’s going to be a landslide". Looks like he was more aware than many of the commentators.
So, I've now completed another (fairly lengthy) chapter of Renshaw's Chronicles. This latest chapter was the most painful yet - hopefully the next few will be a bit brighter. I said at the start of this year that it would take me at least until the end of 2012 - another 18 chapters or so - to complete my Chronicles. After saying that, there was then a 4 month gap before the next spurt of blog postings, then another gap of 6 months, and we're still only up to 1983. There's another 25 years to be covered up to the time I started my family blog back in 2007.
It's taken me 23 posts over 18 months to cover the first 34 years of my life. Amazingly, I've written a total of almost 34,000 words so far. It looks like this project has a long way to go yet. It should get a bit easier from 1999 onwards, which is when my digital photo library starts - these can be sorted by date and type, and thus not only help me recall events in sequence, but also save me a lot of time sorting through and scanning old hard copy paper photographs, which are scattered randomly in my wardrobe.
Apart from that, not much else on this week - apart, of course, from the Champions League. Celtic - Barcelona tonight should be fun. I did get a game of squash doubles on Monday, but it rather looks like this will be the last this week - I had hoped to get another game today or tomorrow, but it's proving difficult to get 4 of us organised. Our pool of players is getting smaller and smaller, I'm afraid. I suppose I'll have to go to Bannatyne's then.
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Sunday supplement
From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/
I don't usually blog on a Sunday but there's been a few things happening and I've been requested to post a few of the photos I've taken over the last few days.
Let's start with Thursday. Jo and I jumped in a taxi with Colin Kilgour and went to the Stonehaven Beer Festival for a couple of hours. Expensive trip, but good fun. More details on Ian's Ale Adventures blog, but here's the photo already posted on Facebook:
On Friday, with Carole and Gary having gone off to Crieff Hydro for a couple of days to celebrate their second anniversary, Jo picked up Luca from school and took him back to Banchory for "2 sleeps". While she was doing that, I left work early to get a game of squash doubles - our first for probably a month or so. I felt it the following day. Despite a couple of sessions at Bannatyne's this week, my legs were sore after the squash - different muscle groups, I guess.
On Saturday morning, I had the optician - it was my first visit in 2 years. I seem to have missed last year - I'm supposed to get my eyes pressure tested every year due to Mum having had glaucoma, which can be inherited. I'm happy to say that there's absolutely no sign of me developing it - not yet at least. The results were identical to those taken back in 2005. The optician said there was no sign of cataracts either - something else Mum had. I couldn't recall at which age - and which order - Mum had developed glaucoma and cataracts, but I suspect she was a fair bit older than I am now.
I also passed the fields test with flying colours, and my vision hasn't really changed much at all in 2 years - just a fractional change to my prescription for distance glasses, but I still hardly need them - only in poor light really. What I did ask for was new glasses for computer work - my previous ones had broken - so I've ordered a pair for collection next week.
Whilst I was in the optician's, Jo walked Luca along to Morrison's supermarket, partly to burn off some of that surplus energy he seems to have. In the evening, it was Bonfire Night at King George V park so we walked Luca down there to see the fireworks etc. At the bonfire, I asked him to pose, but he's never very obliging when you pull the camera out:
No - his head wasn't really on fire.
We took turns at lifting him up out of the crowd to watch the firework display:
Luca was severely underwhelmed by it all. We thought we'd have difficulty dragging him away from it, but, after watching a few minutes of the display, he was nagging us to go home!
After tea and Luca was in bed, I nipped down to the Burnett Arms, where I'd heard that Mick Ralphs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Ralphs) was playing - I couldn't miss the chance of seeing him. (More on this on my Headbangers blog).
This morning, with Jo at church, I cancelled my golf to look after Luca in the morning. We got dressed and walked along to the shops to get my paper - plus a "treat" for Luca. He's a happy-go-lucky wee boy, the way he bounces along - check out this brief video:
Luca wanted to go in to Tease, "where Uncle Ross used to work" so we bought his goodies then went in for a quick coffee and Ribena.
The sweetest bit was when we got home and he said to me "I'm so excited about sharing my treats with you"! When we got upstairs, he sat on the settee and patted the seat next to him, motioning to me to come and join him to share his treats - so I did. One for you, one for me .......
Gary and Carole arrived mid afternoon to take him home. So that's been my weekend.
I don't usually blog on a Sunday but there's been a few things happening and I've been requested to post a few of the photos I've taken over the last few days.
Let's start with Thursday. Jo and I jumped in a taxi with Colin Kilgour and went to the Stonehaven Beer Festival for a couple of hours. Expensive trip, but good fun. More details on Ian's Ale Adventures blog, but here's the photo already posted on Facebook:
On Friday, with Carole and Gary having gone off to Crieff Hydro for a couple of days to celebrate their second anniversary, Jo picked up Luca from school and took him back to Banchory for "2 sleeps". While she was doing that, I left work early to get a game of squash doubles - our first for probably a month or so. I felt it the following day. Despite a couple of sessions at Bannatyne's this week, my legs were sore after the squash - different muscle groups, I guess.
On Saturday morning, I had the optician - it was my first visit in 2 years. I seem to have missed last year - I'm supposed to get my eyes pressure tested every year due to Mum having had glaucoma, which can be inherited. I'm happy to say that there's absolutely no sign of me developing it - not yet at least. The results were identical to those taken back in 2005. The optician said there was no sign of cataracts either - something else Mum had. I couldn't recall at which age - and which order - Mum had developed glaucoma and cataracts, but I suspect she was a fair bit older than I am now.
I also passed the fields test with flying colours, and my vision hasn't really changed much at all in 2 years - just a fractional change to my prescription for distance glasses, but I still hardly need them - only in poor light really. What I did ask for was new glasses for computer work - my previous ones had broken - so I've ordered a pair for collection next week.
Whilst I was in the optician's, Jo walked Luca along to Morrison's supermarket, partly to burn off some of that surplus energy he seems to have. In the evening, it was Bonfire Night at King George V park so we walked Luca down there to see the fireworks etc. At the bonfire, I asked him to pose, but he's never very obliging when you pull the camera out:
No - his head wasn't really on fire.
We took turns at lifting him up out of the crowd to watch the firework display:
Luca was severely underwhelmed by it all. We thought we'd have difficulty dragging him away from it, but, after watching a few minutes of the display, he was nagging us to go home!
After tea and Luca was in bed, I nipped down to the Burnett Arms, where I'd heard that Mick Ralphs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Ralphs) was playing - I couldn't miss the chance of seeing him. (More on this on my Headbangers blog).
This morning, with Jo at church, I cancelled my golf to look after Luca in the morning. We got dressed and walked along to the shops to get my paper - plus a "treat" for Luca. He's a happy-go-lucky wee boy, the way he bounces along - check out this brief video:
Luca wanted to go in to Tease, "where Uncle Ross used to work" so we bought his goodies then went in for a quick coffee and Ribena.
The sweetest bit was when we got home and he said to me "I'm so excited about sharing my treats with you"! When we got upstairs, he sat on the settee and patted the seat next to him, motioning to me to come and join him to share his treats - so I did. One for you, one for me .......
Gary and Carole arrived mid afternoon to take him home. So that's been my weekend.
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