I don't usually blog on a Sunday but there's been a few things happening and I've been requested to post a few of the photos I've taken over the last few days.
Let's start with Thursday. Jo and I jumped in a taxi with Colin Kilgour and went to the Stonehaven Beer Festival for a couple of hours. Expensive trip, but good fun. More details on Ian's Ale Adventures blog, but here's the photo already posted on Facebook:
On Friday, with Carole and Gary having gone off to Crieff Hydro for a couple of days to celebrate their second anniversary, Jo picked up Luca from school and took him back to Banchory for "2 sleeps". While she was doing that, I left work early to get a game of squash doubles - our first for probably a month or so. I felt it the following day. Despite a couple of sessions at Bannatyne's this week, my legs were sore after the squash - different muscle groups, I guess.
On Saturday morning, I had the optician - it was my first visit in 2 years. I seem to have missed last year - I'm supposed to get my eyes pressure tested every year due to Mum having had glaucoma, which can be inherited. I'm happy to say that there's absolutely no sign of me developing it - not yet at least. The results were identical to those taken back in 2005. The optician said there was no sign of cataracts either - something else Mum had. I couldn't recall at which age - and which order - Mum had developed glaucoma and cataracts, but I suspect she was a fair bit older than I am now.
I also passed the fields test with flying colours, and my vision hasn't really changed much at all in 2 years - just a fractional change to my prescription for distance glasses, but I still hardly need them - only in poor light really. What I did ask for was new glasses for computer work - my previous ones had broken - so I've ordered a pair for collection next week.
Whilst I was in the optician's, Jo walked Luca along to Morrison's supermarket, partly to burn off some of that surplus energy he seems to have. In the evening, it was Bonfire Night at King George V park so we walked Luca down there to see the fireworks etc. At the bonfire, I asked him to pose, but he's never very obliging when you pull the camera out:
No - his head wasn't really on fire.
We took turns at lifting him up out of the crowd to watch the firework display:
Luca was severely underwhelmed by it all. We thought we'd have difficulty dragging him away from it, but, after watching a few minutes of the display, he was nagging us to go home!
After tea and Luca was in bed, I nipped down to the Burnett Arms, where I'd heard that Mick Ralphs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Ralphs) was playing - I couldn't miss the chance of seeing him. (More on this on my Headbangers blog).
This morning, with Jo at church, I cancelled my golf to look after Luca in the morning. We got dressed and walked along to the shops to get my paper - plus a "treat" for Luca. He's a happy-go-lucky wee boy, the way he bounces along - check out this brief video:
Luca wanted to go in to Tease, "where Uncle Ross used to work" so we bought his goodies then went in for a quick coffee and Ribena.
The sweetest bit was when we got home and he said to me "I'm so excited about sharing my treats with you"! When we got upstairs, he sat on the settee and patted the seat next to him, motioning to me to come and join him to share his treats - so I did. One for you, one for me .......
Gary and Carole arrived mid afternoon to take him home. So that's been my weekend.
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