Saturday Stories

Well, I finally got BUPA sorted out and I'm going to get the injection in my knee on Tuesday. I had also hoped to get our BOSE sound system sorted yesterday - the upstairs part hasn't been working for a while - the control box had blown - and our man from Alford was scheduled to come back and fit the repaired part, which he did, but it didn't work.

Andrew - the BOSE man - reckoned it was partly due to the way that his father had set up the system back in the late 90's. The unit is from the first series and BOSE are now on to series 4 - they don't make any of the 3 previous series any more. However, Andrew apparently has a couple of spare series 2 units and he's going to fit them instead - eventually.

Today (Saturday) Jo and I went Christmas tree hunting - Jo had gone to her usual source (Raemoir Garden Centre) yesterday but they had completely sold out - so we drove down to Glentanar this morning, where we used to get our tree in years gone by, but the place was closed - it looked like they're not doing trees at all this year.

On the way back home, we saw a sign for Xmas trees so we turned left towards Deeside Activity Centre, turning off into a woodland just past the Falls of Dess, and we managed to pick up a nice one there, which now has pride of place in our living room:

Xmas tree safely in the bag, we stopped off at Dee's Teas in Kincardine O'Neil for a spot of lunch. The tea and coffee was served in proper old-fashioned cups:

Tomorrow, Dawn, Barry & Helen are coming up to see us.

To close, brother-in-law Brian texted me the following photo of him with the Ryder Cup. That's Stephen Gallacher, who played for Europe, second from the left, with his hand on Brian's shoulder: