I think I'm organised for my holiday - although there's always something you forget to do - or take.
Jo and I have only had very mild reactions to our flu jabs last week - hardly noticeable, in fact. One thing that I do have now though, is a bit of tinnitus - and that can be annoying at times. Wonder if the flu jab brought that on?
I had a really nice afternoon's golf at Scotscraig (Tayport) yesterday, playing for our Seniors. Fortunately, it was a flat course - I'd wanted to walk it and although I struggled a bit on the second nine, I got there in the end. I'm supposed to playing in a Texas Scramble at Banchory in the morning but the forecast isn't very good.
Anyway, I was talking to Raymond Orr (Jo's friend Myra's husband) at Scotscraig yesterday. He had a knee replacement a couple of years ago. He told my my recovery would take much longer than I expected. Now, I was thinking 5-6 months, but he was complaining because he tried to play golf after 3 weeks and struggled!
It's definitely getting darker earlier in the evening - and staying darker later in the morning. Still, that does mean I've seen some spectacular sunrises when driving in to work this week. I tried to photograph one as I was driving past Garlogie, but it didn't come out too well, I'm afraid:
Been thinking about our holidays next year. We've now got 2 BA Companion Vouchers to use by 2015, so I thought I'd search their web site and see what free flights might be available. Nothing to the West Coast of USA in July or August, but if we want to go to LA at the end of May and not come back for at least 5 weeks, then there are flights available. Perhaps 5 weeks is stretching it a bit whilst I'm still working. There was also a 4 week option to Vancouver - now that's somewhere we've never been. Dilemma. I'd got round to thinking that driving up the coastal road (Big Sur) to San Francisco might be quite cool, but now I don't know what to do.
As Del Shannon once sang, Keep Searching (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJvoDJCW0A).
I got 2 comments back from my latest episode of Renshaw's Chronicles (http://renshawschronicles.blogspot.co.uk/). The first was "it's just facts and figures" and the second was "absolutely my favourite blog". The comments came from Jo and Gary - I'll let you guess which one was which.
Despite our initial fears, Jo and I finally did watch all 6 episodes of BBC 2's "Peaky Blinders", including the finale last night and it turned out to be not as bad as we initially feared. I doubt if the same is going to be true of Sky Atlantic's "The Tunnel", the first episode of which we also watched. I had understood it was based on "The Bridge", the Danish TV production shown several months ago on BBC Four, but it seems to be an almost direct copy - all they seem to have changed so far is the location - instead of the bridge between Copenhagen and Sweden, it's the Chunnel between France and England. The actors are almost replicas of the Danish original. Surely they have to change it a bit? If not, they're going to lose at least 2 viewers.
That's all for now, folks.
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