Last week was - unusually for me - a pretty full and busy time at work, including 2 consecutive day trips to Fraserburgh. I had thought that travel might be a bit tricky as I go cross country along some of the lesser used roads, but we're fortunate in not really having had any proper snow yet, and although it's been cold and we've had to scrape the cars in the morning, I haven't encountered any of the horrendous black ice we experienced last year - not yet anyway.
I got a couple of games of squash, but didn't golf yesterday - nobody was very keen after our night out on Saturday (see golf blog for photos). It was, in fact, a day of vegetation - or, as Sky Sports called it, Super Sunday - 3 big matches on TV from noon to 6 pm. What with all that, plus recorded Match of the Day, and the Sunday Times too, I didn't move much from my chair. Jo was out for dinner with her pals last night at the Tor-na-Coille so we didn't see much of each other yesterday.
We had a brief trip out on Saturday morning to drop off some salmon and then select a Christmas tree at the garden centre. £50 it was - although they did deliver it. I should think so too at that price. A little controversially, the tree was not erected in its usual place:
Still to be decorated of course.
Now that Kelly's moved house, we've also had to change our plans a little for our upcoming trip to Adelaide. We had originally booked our first week in Semaphore, which is a bit nearer where Kelly used to stay in North Adelaide, but now that she's moved, I've re-arranged and we're going back to the same apartments in Glenelg that we were in this year - only this time with a sea view.
Been trying to sort out our Sky TV subscription as well - been having problems with our multi-room connection ever since Ross did some re-wiring of our telephone system a few months ago. I didn't realise at the time what the full implications might be, but as Sky can't get a callback signal from the second box in our bedroom, their system immediately defaults to an assumption that the box could have moved - to a second home, for instance - and they now charge another £34.50 per month for it. Ross thinks he has a solution but it means moving so much stuff in our garage to access the connections. Meantime, we've had to put some temporary cabling from our bedroom to our back room - Jo was horrified when she saw it running across the floor and then drooping off the lights last night!
Still haven't picked a replacement TV for our bedroom either - there's so many choices - Freeview HD, internet TV, 3-D etc etc. I was also thinking about DAB radio as well. I currently record a lot of radio programmes on the Sky box, then transfer them to my Archos, then to my PC, then convert them to audio, then put them on my memory stick to listen to in my car - quite a process. So I thought that if I had a DAB radio and I could record directly on to a memory stick, that would save a lot of hassle - but it appears that none of the DAB radios on the market do that. Many of them record, but they all seem to do it to an SD card, rather than a memory stick - why?
So, turkey ordered - all set now, except for the fact that, apart from her big present which we got at the Apple Store, I don't have anything else for Jo yet. Mmmm - thinking cap on.
And just to prove that we're always thinking about our children:
Last photo was taken yesterday morning from the War Memorial looking towards Arbor Court, on my way back from buying the Sunday Times. It was a beautiful, bright, crisp morning and it shows the miserable dusting of snow we had overnight - the first this winter:
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