The weekend

We had a fairly easy game of football on Friday at the Beach and went to Scott Skinner's for drinks in the evening. Nigel was back in Banchory for the weekend and Brian made a rare appearance too. Here we are celebrating the birth of Brian's latest grandchild - his 5th/7th (Peter "inherited" 2 children!).

I was up a little later than usual on Saturday morning and noticed that Jo had already left. She had gone Xmas shopping - leaving here at 7:15 a.m.! She doesn't enjoy it at the best of times, but arrived back in an even more irritable mood than usual - it transpired later that she seems to have some kind of bug - sore throat etc - and has spent most of Sunday in bed - she even got me to cancel Gary, Carole and Luca coming over.

After writing all our Christmas cards, I felt a sense of relief and went to play squash doubles at Crathes on Saturday with Harry, Richard and Keith and after a quick beer at the Legion, went home and Jo and I watched "The Prestige" which I had recorded the previous week - not bad.

It was a cold but bright Sunday and 4 of us made it along to the golf club - see photo above with Peter, Dave and Syd.

Failed to get Ross out of his bed at a decent time yesterday or today - nagging him about applying for jobs - and also waiting for him to dismantle his old double bed and replace it with the single one in Jo's computer room.

Need to buy Christmas tree this week and start to put up decorations.