Catching up again

It's been a while - over a fortnight. Probably one of the longest gaps between posts in this blog. I'll try hard to remember what's happened over the last couple of weeks.

We had Jayne Williamson's 60th birthday party at Finzean Town Hall on the Saturday after my birthday and, of course, there's been the usual rounds of cycling and golf, plus a CAMRA branch meeting and our biannual visit from our IFA to review our pension funds and do our ISA's for this year. Then there was Jo's birthday - Gary, Carole and Luca paid us a susprise visit - with cake - on Sunday night - and we got another one on Tuesday when we went over to Inverurie:

Not forgetting the flowers that arrived:

Before that, we'd been down to the Deeside Way to meet Gary at the halfway turn point in the D33 run:

Jo and I had a nice meal at the Derbar on Monday night - although we were the only people in the restaurant apart from those coming to pick up carry-outs. Last night (Wednesday) I attended the long overdue meeting of River Dee Radio helpers to try and sort out an organisation and iron out the technical hitches - many of them inevitable in a start-up community radio project.

I've also had to acquire another network drive to hold our data, photos, videos etc after discovering that the one we had (which had a 3 tb capacity) was apparently full - even although our files took up less than one-third of this space. It took some research to find out that the version I had didn't have a recycle bin that could be emptied, so every time we deleted a file, it didn't really disappear - it was just inaccessible! Grrrrr.

So, for the past couple of days, I've been setting up the new one and trying to make sure that everything is properly backed up - a tedious job.

Another "project" we now have is completing a 1,000 piece jigsaw that Colin Kilgour gave us. He got it as a Christmas present and recently completed it and has now passed the challenge on to us:

I dumped the recent brew - the 3rd in a row to fail. Don't know what I'm doing wrong - although this batch was past its sell-by date. I'll try and summon up the courage to try again some time.

The clocks spring forward this weekend, so signalling for me the start of the golf season proper - and I'm planning to play a bit more this year prior to heading off to USA July/August - always assuming my left knee stands up to the challenge. I'm hoping my daily exercise regime will pay dividends. The first test starts tomorrow - 3 consecutive days of golf. Wish me luck.