Do you come from a land Down Under? No, but we're going there. After months of hesitation and uncertainty, I've finally made the plunge and booked our trip - and, yes, we're going Business Class - and yes, it's costing an arm and a leg - but what the heck. We're flying BA/Qantas from Aberdeen on 14th January, stopping 3 nights in Hong Kong, then on to Sydney.
We leave Oz on 4th February and stop off for a couple of nights in Singapore on the way home. We've booked hotels en route as part of the package - check them out:
http://www.harbourgrand.com/hongkong/luxury-hotel-,default-en.html
http://www.parkhotelgroup.com/Default.aspx?alias=www.parkhotelgroup.com/phcq
Now all we have to do is get some accommodation and internal flights in Australia - Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, then back to Sydney I think. Haven't had any time share offers yet - looks like it's going to have to be hotels all the way.
What else has been going on? - check my other blogs to see - the golf one has details of a lovely day out on Sunday at our annual Scotland v Rest of the World match. We also made it (just) to the house-warming we were invited to on Friday night round at Burnett Park. Harry and Moira Salter have just moved in next door to Ken and Irene Page, but we had visitors on Friday - Mary, Julie and little Leo came up for the day. We had Luca overnight on Thursday and he and Leo seemed to get on very well at first, although when I got there mid-afternoon, Luca was in the huff - they'd had a little spat - but they were soon speaking again.
Jo then dashed back to Inverurie with Luca, came home, changed, and off we went to Burnett Park. We were just in time for grub - it was curry from the Derbar, who had even supplied the large tagine style vessels to hold it in. I enjoyed it, but Jo never ate - perhaps all the rushing around, or perhaps her diet?
So tomorrow starts with a visit to the Nurse to get my bloods done prior to seeing my GP again on Monday. I then have to dash up to Fraserburgh to attend a funeral - one of my staff died on Friday night - she'd been off work with cancer for over a year - then back down to Aberdeen to see the Oral Surgeon about my displaced eye tooth. This is happening at the same time as Luca goes back to hospital, hopefully to get his arm out of the sling at long last.
Thursday is Fraserburgh again and then, on Friday, it's my knee ops - fingers crossed. A weekend vegetating in front of the Ryder Cup on TV seems to be on the agenda.
I've got my cardiologist to see again on Monday as well, prior to the GP - it's not easy being old and sickly (with apologies to Luca who has copyrighted the phrase "it's not easy with one hand" over the last month).
Meanwhile, we still await the return of the plumber's joiner to tidy up the external pipework he put in -and to do the work we want done in the untility room. This is how the plumber left it:
The above one is just outside the front door, on our porch. The one below is the other side of the wall, inside Ross' WC:
Not very tidy, is it?
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