Mid August weekend

The weekend wasn't too bad - dry at least and sometimes pretty warm and occasionally sunny - but I was hoping we might have had a bit of settled sunny weather by now. It seems the summer is fading fast - let's hope for an Indian one!

Gary brought Luca over on Saturday afternoon and he was in pretty good form - at least before they took him up Scolty!:

Having golfed in the morning, I dipped out of the plan to go up the hill in the afternoon, but Kelly, Jo and Gary tried to take Luca up - unsuccessfully! He apparently had a bit of a meltdown and when he came back, he refused food and then started throwing up!

Kelly and her new hairstyle were hogging the power points in the house:

We decided to have a take away curry from the Coriander for tea - Kelly co-ordinated the order and she and I popped in to the golf club for a beer on the balcony before picking the order up. The sun had gone down by then but that didn't stop Jo wheeling Luca round in the buggy to join us for a swift one:

After golfing at Torphins on Sunday morning, I got home to see Craig for the first time this weekend - he had just returned from his mate's stag night in Aviemore. He was pretty knackered after driving from Cornwall on Thursday, wedding Friday, then driving across the mountains for the stag do on Saturday. He tried manfully to watch a bit of TV:

Jo made another lovely stew and rhubarb crumble for tea - that's another thing Craig doesn't eat - rhubarb! What does the man survive on? Obviously the sea and surf is enough to keep him going. Carole, Luca, Gary, Jo, Ross and I all wolfed the crumble up - just like old times! Now here's the real debate - custard - hot or cold? It has to be hot - poured on top of ice cream - ye cannae whack it!

Kelly's bombshell news about the potential move to Australia was met with dropped jaws. She at least didn't preface it with "I've got some news for you" - she felt this may have been misinterpreted!

Perhaps the planned week in Spain may have to be re-thought?

We settled down to watch an old movie in the evening - Escape from Alcatraz, with Clint Eastwood - it had stood the test of time not too badly - and we all managed to stay awake through it!

Early rise this morning to see Kelly and Craig off - they were up and gone by 6:00 am, but they're back in a few weeks' time for another wedding.