Wednesday

Not a particularly thrilling early evening. Tried to play one of our doubles matches in the club championship, but partner Harry tweaked his achilles and we had to stop. Reverted to racquetball but lost 0-3 to Keith.

We met Dick at the golf club and he demonstrated his Leadbetter swing tutor - very complicated. While we were there, news came through from our lawyers that they did not think our appeal in the Court of Session had gone well. I hope they're wrong - would hate for us to be evicted from our squash courts - this would be proof, if proof were needed, that the law is indeed an ass.

The rest of the evening was spent trying to set up Jo's new Ipod, which I bought for her birthday - no doubt there'll now be endless technical issues!

Carole asked me to print off some photos of Luca - including this one, which I think is lovely.

Monday/Tuesday

Last week of our squash club championships so had a few racketball matches to catch up on. Started off well - beat Harry easily in first game then did likewise to Richard in 2 games, but lost the vital 3rd (Richard was already 2 up from Saturday). Tried one more game against Jas but never got it finished - 16-16 when the lights went out.
A couple of pints at the Legion where we were joined by Dick.
Tuesday is the first day of the Squash Club's appeal against eviction in the Court of Session, Edinburgh - hoping for a better result this time. It is also Jo's birthday and we went to the Lairhillock, joined by Gary, Carole and Luca - he slept through the whole meal (Luca that is, not Gary!)

Friday/Saturday/Sunday

Busy morning in the office on Friday, but managed to slip out at lunchtime for a quick swim and steam room/jacuzzi at Bannatyne's. Much quieter afternoon and would have sloped off home early but for the fact that I was playing 6-a-side football at the Beach at 5:30. I arranged to give Ross a lift home as he was dropping off his courtesy car at the Saab garage near my work, but, because he slept in in the morning, he was late in to his work and said he would drop off his car and then walk down to the Beach and meet me there after football. Needless to say, he wasn't there when I finished - I discovered he and Harris were in the Brig Inn playing pool and I then had to got and pick them up.
I drove home, dropped the boys off at the Douglas then walked back down there to join the usual Friday night post-football drinking crowd. Nigel, en route home to Dubai from Houston, joined us and we presented Ian Sharp with the shield to mark his entry to the 500 Club Hall of Fame.
That was just the start of a weekend of sporting activity. There is only a week to go until Finals Day at Banchory Squash Club and I had several matches to catch up on, so I had to play the Veterans' first round against Gordon Moir at 2 pm on Saturday, go home, then play a couple of games of racketball against Richard Simcox at 5:30. Jo and I then went to the golf club for dinner and were joined by Colin and Johannne. We listened to Bigfoot, the band led by our former guitar tutor, Andy Johnson. It was several years (and 2 Scotvec certificates) since we had seen him, but he remembered us and came over to talk to us at the interval and the end of the gig.
The portents for Sunday were not good, but I decided to go to the golf club in the morning and Dave, Peter, Jack and I braved the elements. The start was pretty horrendous with driving sleet, but that only lasted a few minutes and then the sun came out - although it stayed cold and windy. Glad we risked it. A couple of pints of Old Speckled Hen then home for lunch. Discovered that Gary and Carole were coming over for a little while for Mother's Day, but they were held up a bit by Luca's feeding pattern and I only saw them for about an hour before I had to head off again to play the next round in our doubles championship.
Finally home and time to relax - Jo has got steak pie for tea - great!