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.
