October week 1

The weather's held fair even although it's October now. The only change has been in daylight hours, which are noticeably shortening.

It's Saturday night and Jo's still not well. She's struggled through this week - managing along to her swimming sessions on Wednesday and Friday but she was pretty poorly last night. She attended the cardio clinic earlier this week and the nurse noted that her sample was cloudy and offered Jo an antiobiotic, suggesting that she may have a UTI. Jo turned it down, but now wishes she hadn't, so she's been in bed all day today (Saturday) and is surviving on Solpadeine and Cranberry Juice.

I've been OK so far - 3 days of golf and 2 days of cycling. Now I'm sitting here watching Scotland toil against Lithuania in the second match of their World Cup qualifying section. What a wonderful Saturday evening - not. Just as well Gary and Carole decided not to go out tonight and leave Luca with us as originally planned.

We're due to head down to the West Country on Wednesday - let's hope Jo's better by then.

October arrives

It's been a fun - and busy - week. Dinner at the Kilgours on Saturday night was followed by a lovely afternoon at the golf club after our annual Scotland v Rest of World Challenge match. Cycling on Monday, Inverurie with Luca on Tuesday, golf on Wednesday, rest day Thursday then a hill-walk on Friday.

In amongst all that were another couple of training sessions for River Dee Radio, which had its first official live broadcast on Saturday morning, introducing all the presenters and their programme plans. I couldn't make our scheduled interview time, but Andy Marshall went along to represent us. Listen to what he said here:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsOWKBxougg, and
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKj7gMfYss

Saturday afternoon was another lovely social occasion. It's Les and Angela Gray's 70th birthdays (soon) and also their 50th wedding anniversary and they had a lunch for 50 family and friends at The Cowshed:

We arrived at 1 pm and didn't leave until after 5 pm - and the champagne and wine flowed all afternoon. We're not quite so sprightly today - although I did manage along to golf this morning on what was another beautiful day. Jo's been taking it easy as well - although she thinks a contributory factor was getting our flu jabs yesterday morning - plus, in her case, the one-of pneumococcal vaccine, which everyone gets after they hit 65.

This week it's golf Monday, Wednesday and Friday, weather permitting and hopefully a cycle or two sometime. Luca's staying with us on Saturday as his parents are out at a show.