Thursday's latest

Not much to say - check the football blog for news of Colin.

Other than that, busy morning tomorrow, but then it's off to St Andrews for the afternoon for our Midsummer Outing, followed by a curry at the Balaka.

Oh - and don't forget to complete my latest poll.

Tuesday

Planning on a quiet day today - golfed out. I did OK, without threatening to win anything, in the Seniors Club Championship - top 10 in both scratch and handicap can't be bad.

I'll go and see Colin this afternoon and see how he's getting on - he's been moved to a "normal" ward, which is a good sign, I hope.

A deer has been a fairly regular visitor to the embankment at the back - he/she seems to particularly like some of the plants/weeds in she-whose-name-must-not-be-mentioned's garden next door.

Jo and I have both sponsored Carole in Sunday's Race for Life - is that poor communication between us, or did Carole just con us both? No matter - it's for a good cause! It's exactly a decade since our football group took part in this (it was a 24 hour Relay then). Niece Julie was then the Scottish organiser for Cancer Relief, and the Aberdeen event (at Linksfield) was the most successful fund-raiser in Scotland, and our group was the largest contributor to this - £4,608. Gary came along to watch us, but didn’t take part. I showed Carole some of the photos of a 24 year old Gary - hope she's got over the shock now! This is me opening the champagne at the end of a gruelling 24 hours:

I had my annual medical at Albyn yesterday. The results will be in soon, but I'll get the usual bollocking about weight, body fat %, alcohol consumption, and probably high cholesterol to boot. I do already know that I still am in Atrial Fibrillation, however - apparently it'll always be this way - it never goes back to a normal rhythm. Oh well, it's just a matter of time before they put me on Warfarin then - I'll put this off as long as I can as I still have memories of what it did to my Mum - the bad outweighed the good on that occasion.

The weekend

Got a bit of a fright on Friday when Jo rang me from Inverurie and told me that Johanne had just texted her and said that Colin had been taken in to hospital. Jo was babysitting Luca and couldn't really do anything so I phoned Johanne to find out more. Johanne's condition makes it difficult to fully understand her on the phone, but I could make out words like "seizure", ECG etc and this obviously concerned me.



I went to the hospital at visiting time and there was Colin, looking, feeling and sounding fine, albeit wired up to a heart monitor. We took Johanne back to ARI yesterday and this afternoon and again Colin seems fine. Perhaps they'll find out more tomorrow. Check the football blog for photos.



Apart from that, it's just been golf, golf, golf - I'm worn out - and I have to play in the last round of the Seniors club championship tomorrow night. Looking forward to a rest day on Tuesday.



Tomorrow morning, I've got my annual medical at Albyn and I have to fast from 9:30 pm tonight - best stock up on carbos now!

I forgot to mention that, when I was in Reading last week, we went to the Nag's Head - a cracking little pub. One of the artefacts on the wall brought back memories of my days with James Buchanan & Co at Stepps and then London from 1972 to 1977: