Brian and I were having bacon butties with the other golfers (it was our Veterans' Football Group annual outing) and I asked Jo if she and Mary would like to join us? Yes, said Jo, so we all sat down in the lounge, but I was then called over by the barmaid. "Excuse me, sir, but the lady is wearing jeans - they're not allowed in here". She started to apologise at this point and said, if we liked, we could go in to the separate Members' lounge - as long as there were no members there, or they didn't object.
Jo and Mary decided it would be easier if they just left and went elsewhere, so they headed off to the Arch in Fettercairn instead. Jo says this is the first time in her life she's ever been thrown out of anywhere!
Anyway, Brian and I had a nice afternoon, followed by a few beers back in the Burnett in the evening.
Saturday was the day of the Members' Invitational at Banchory, but there were dire warnings of wet weather arriving in the North East about 11 am. We hoped we would get most of our round completed by then, but, for once, the forecasters were spot on with their timing. The rain started on the 13th hole and never relented. Brian and I finished our round, but our playing partners didn't, walking in when the heavens opened on the 13th hole.
We put our gear in the drying room and went in to the clubhouse for a welcome beer and bacon butty, with the rain still teeming down. We watched the end of the Aberdeen - Celtic match, won 2-1 by the Dons, then had to call home to ask Jo to come and pick us up - it was still too wet to walk even the short distance home.
In the evening, Brian and I met Colin in the Douglas to watch the Man U - Liverpool match then walked along to the Derbar to meet up with Jo and Mary for a curry, which we all enjoyed:
Brian, Mary and Jo went to church on Sunday morning, and the girls went on from there to Tease for coffee, where Johanne revealed that the surgeon who performed the experimental surgery on her brain to relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's was the same one who was reported to have harmed over 100 patients, but was allowed to resign, rather than be removed from the medical register - check http://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20150912/281809987677823/TextView.
Johanne's operation relieved some of her pain, but, in the process, her vocal powers were greatly diminished and she finds it hard to make herself heard now. How unlucky has she been? One of the youngest to contract Parkinson's - in her 30's - and then this.
Guess what we had for lunch when Jo and Mary came home today? Yes - it was bacon butties again - the 3rd day in a row for me, not that I'm complaining.
Tomorrow, I'm off to Tayport for the Seniors penultimate match this season against Scotscraig, then on Thursday the last one is at Royal Aberdeen, so I don't know when I'll manage to squeeze in some cycling this week. Brian and I spoke about doing some cycling together some time - perhaps next time we go down there.
Talking about bikes, there were loads of ads in the papers this weekend for this product - http://www.gtech.co.uk/ebike.html. A snip, starting at a mere £1,695. I hope to get my new mountain bike for a lot less than that.
