Pre-holiday blog

From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/

It's been over a week since my last posting, so I thought I'd better do a quick one before it gets too crazy. I haven't begun packing - I usually prepare slowly over 10 days or so - and I'm away at the crack of dawn on Saturday morning for our annual Summer Tour, this time to Slaley Hall.

I return on Monday evening, then work on Tuesday, before flying off on Wednesday. Ross is taking us to the airport - it's his day off.

It's been another week of sleep/work/golf - I'm kind of relieved it's coming to an end now. My body's hurting - particularly my knee. Not sure how I'll cope this weekend - 3 days in a row. May have to hire a buggy.

We've been clearing off our Sky box to allow room to record all our usual programmes whilst we're away. We're going to miss the last 2 episodes of The Apprentice - can we wait until August to see who's won? We'll probably find out before then anyway.

Later than planned, we got round to watching Searching for Sugarman last week - interesting film - documentary really - and yes, I like many others, did download a Rodriguez album of his afterwards. I saw him playing at Glastonbury last weekend - a bit shaky I thought.

Tomorrow, it's Gary's 38th birthday and he and Carole are going out, so I've arranged to pick up Luca from his last day at school and take him back to Banchory for "one sleep".

Did I tell you about our little contretemps with DVLA and the question of road tax on Jo's new car? Well, we got a letter from DVLA exonerating us from blame yesterday and letting us off with the penalty they'd tried to charge and also the 2 months' road tax - result! It was worth the effort of our appeal:

Bye for now.