From
http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/
I thought I'd better bring my blog diary up to date again - it's been 12 days now - not easy to remember everything that's happened in that time - if I don't do this frequently, I've got no chance!
My last post told about the builders arriving to cut a hole in the wood roof to our porch. Have they been back since? What do you think? Will it ever get fixed?
I went for my latest blood test and saw the Doctor on Friday to get the results - the good news is that I can now come off the iron pills - thank goodness for that! I had another visit to the Medical Centre the same day to see the Doctor who has been looking at and treating the skin blemish on my nose. It certainly looks better since he froze off the crusty brown skin, but he tells me I've got 2 things going on there. I wish I'd asked him to write the names down - they were unpronounceable. Basically, one of them has the possibility of turning cancerous if I'm not careful, but the other one is just a kind of warty thing that's randomly attached itself to the original growth. Factor 50 for me, he says, especially in USA and Oz.
Let's think - what else goes wrong with your body as you get older? Well, nose hairs for one. Billy Connolly does a wonderful skit on the whole ageing process and his take is far better than I could ever manage, but, thankfully, I don't appear to have got the ear hairs he talks about yet. Nose hairs are a pest however - I've taken to just pulling them out - it used to be painful at first, but I'm getting used to it. Sometimes they're dark, sometimes white - occasionally 50:50 - weird.
We had the first of our bi-annual (not biennial) trips to Boat of Garten last weekend - great fun and very lucky with the weather, as you can see from my golf blog.
It was another golf club Committee meeting on Monday - I'm starting to get the hang of things now, and how it all works. I still think there's too many round the table and there's a lot of hot air, and division of responsibilities is pretty woolly too, but it's getting a bit easier. I've had my first official complaint as House Convenor - let's hope I can resolve matters amicably.
When I was at Boat of Garten, Gary was fulfilling a life-long ambition - and probably one of mine and my Dad's - of playing on the hallowed turf/mud of Firhill. Carole and Luca went down to watch as well. For those that haven't seen it, here's Gary in action in one of his matches in the tournament:
Did he chop the guy in red down after this? Gary denies it!
Luca got his face painted when he was there - and then got his photo taken with Simon Donnelly and Paul Cairney (whoever they may be, you might well be asking?):
This Sunday, weather permitting, we're planning to walk up Lochnagar - my first Munro - if I make it! We tried last year, but visibility was so poor there was no point in going on - and I was struggling anyway with my cardio system - let's hope for better things this time.
And, as you probably gathered from Kelly's blog, we're trying to get the internal flights and accommodation sorted out for our trip to Oz next year, which I'm hoping to follow up with a return golf trip to Turkey - if we can agree a suitable date.
At work yesterday, I received an unusual call from a man representing Tekno Model Trucks (
http://www.tekno.nl/). They wanted our permission to feature one of our old trucks in their Historic Range and are going to be sending me a contract for us to sign, allowing them to make 150 replicas (1:50 scale). As it happens, I have a photo of said truck in my room:
Takes all sorts, doesn't it?
