A day at work with Luca

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Yesterday was my day with Luca - I took him in to our Aberdeen factory whilst Jo had a bit of a day off, getting her hair done. He was pretty good and Michael and Francis entertained him for a while to allow me to do a little work.

We did a quick factory tour with him as well. We had to take one of our visitor coats and cut off half the sleeves and the bottom half of the coat before he went in to the production areas:

We shared my tuna and sweetcorn sandwich for lunch - Luca washed his down with a glass of Irn Bru. He wanted to draw, so I gave him some paper and out came various shapes of animal:

Did you correctly guess what they all were? Luca told me, but I'm sworn to secrecy.

One week to go

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Exactly a week until we head off to USA - but it's still a bit of a mad time for me. I was away in London this last weekend for my annual cricket visit to Lord's - plus a gig - and some beers, of course (details in my football, beer and music blogs), and then I'm away this weekend golfing down in Dumfries and Galloway - an area I don't really know at all. I get back from there on Monday night and then have to pack hurriedly for our departure to USA on Tuesday morning, squeezing in a couple of hours in the office first of all.

On my way down to Dumfries on Saturday morning, I have to detour to Hamilton for my check-up appointment with the Orthotist. I hope he can do something about the additional stick-on wedges, which keep slipping out of position.

I must be getting anxious about it all - either that or I need lessons from Fergie on how to chew gum safely. I was driving to work this morning, chewing away, when suddenly I bit really hard on the front edge of my tongue. Blood all over the place - how do you stop a tongue bleeding? Never done that before - how stupid is that?

Gary brought Luca over last night - he's with us for 5 nights now - school has stopped for the summer and it saves Gary and Carole some day care costs if he stays with us. Tomorrow morning, I'm bringing him in to the office - Jo's got a hairdresser's appointment.

That's about it for now. I'll finish with one of the photos from last weekend that aren't already published on Facebook or other blogs. This is Dave Williamson, Colin Kilgour and I having a quiet beer in Henley-on-Thames on Sunday: