Forgot to check my e-mails last night, but when I did this morning, I discovered that I was successful in my bid on eBay for a replacement Archos unit. My DVR went phut last week so I haven't been able to download my recent recordings from the Sky + box, but I found one on eBay and the bid expired at 10 pm last night. Great - should arrive soon - hope it's OK.
Went down to Edinburgh by train on Friday with Les and Anne Mason. We had dinner at their favourite Chinese restaurant, Loon Fung - and very good it was too. We stayed, very conveniently, at the George Hotel, just across the road from the Assembly Rooms where this year's Wine Gang Xmas Fair, featuring Anne's brother Tom Cannavan - star of STV's The Hour wine spot - was being held. Good fun it was too. We attended three of their masterclasses - the two Tom himself did on Portugal and Lebanon were very good, but his colleague Jane got in a bit of a muddle with her presentation on the wines of SW France.
Here we are posing in the hallway adjacent to the magnificent, newly refurbished room where the fair was held:
So, golf yesterday morning was followed by a lazy Sunday afternoon with the papers and TV sport, then we caught up with Boardwalk Empire in the evening. Fraserburgh today - got a bit of a crisis looming - machinery breakdowns have caused a huge backlog of orders and we only have a few weeks left until Xmas, so we've had to ask for volunteers to work additional hours, weekends and holidays.
Squash this evening, then back to Aberdeen tomorrow. Nothing else major planned for this week.
