Week of change

It was great while it lasted - the sun shone and it was beautifully warm all the way through to Thursday, but there was a sea change yesterday (Friday), when the temperature plummeted back down to more seasonal levels.

Golf on Wednesday was lovely, as was our cycle on Thursday morning up beautiful Glenesk. I can't believe I've lived in the North East for 33 years and never been there. There's even a nice Folk Museum and cafe called the Retreat which is worth a stop. I posed for a photo outside:

It's the beer festival next week - I'm working there Tuesday through Friday. In fact, I'm a judge of the Beer of the Festival this year. The downside is that it clashes with our hill-walking group's annual trip - this year they're heading to Assynt, staying 2 nights at Aultbea and 2 nights in Ullapool.

We FaceTimed with Kelly yesterday. Little Asher has had his tongue tie done and all seems to be well. Miller will get his done when he's a bit older - similar to his Mum. I never had mine done, but I've never really had any problems with it. OK - I can't stick my tongue out as far as others, but so what?

I've also had my first little rant for a while - check http://curmudgeonlyramblings.blogspot.co.uk/

Recovered

I was ill most of last week so had to cancel my trip to Inverurie last Tuesday and the CAMRA meeting that night, plus golf on Wednesday and cycling on Thursday. By Friday I was feeling a bit better and managed to make it down to Montrose where I'd entered the Senior Open.

I was grateful that I was well enough to attend our 61st golf outing to Boat of Garten on Sunday/Monday as the weather was stunning. On Tuesday we were back to Inverurie as usual, but I knew I was running out of time to distribute our local CAMRA branch's newsletter round the pubs in upper Deeside - it's the festival edition and the beer festival itself is next week - so I jumped in the car in the morning and drove down to Braemar, taking in Ballater, Tarland and Aboyne on the way back. At Ballater, Lochnagar was looking magnificent as usual:

To close, here's some pics Kelly sent us of her boys: