School hols

What's this? Another blog post within a week - almost like the old days. Not that anything exciting has been happening, but we have had Luca over here for the last 3 days. I went over to pick him up early Monday morning, just as Gary was leaving to go to work. Luca had had the misfortune to have spent virtually the whole of the previous day on a bus with his football team-mates travelling down to Hampden to watch Scotland get thumped by Portugal - and what's worse, the iconic figure of Cristiano Ronaldo wasn't even playing.

We allowed poor tired little Luca a very easy 3 days - no rush to get up in the mornings, nor to get dressed. We were stuck at home most of Monday anyway as we had booked our annual gas service for then. Don't you just know that when they give you a not at all narrow "window" of 8 am to 6 pm, that the engineer is guaranteed to arrive in the last hour of the day - never the first. Who does get the early morning appointments? Answers on a postcard please.

We did venture out of the house on Tuesday - only briefly in the afternoon to Morrison's and then again at tea-time when we had a meal at the Burnett Arms. This morning (Wednesday) was another beautiful sunny day, highlighting the fabulous autumn colours:

Shame about the bin!

This was due to be another day when we could be stuck at home as the fitters were arriving to put together our new shed/summerhouse, but as soon as they started they realised that half the parts were missing - an error made by the shipping company who delivered it on a pallet a few weeks ago. The fitters have now arranged for the missing parts to be sent out and we will apparently now be treated us as a priority case. Meanwhile, the parts that did arrive sit forlornly at the back of the house:

We decided to use the free time after the fitters had gone to head to Inchmarlo Driving Range - Luca and I on bikes and Jo walking. We hit some balls and then went for coffee and cakes - chocolate of course for Luca.

The plan was then that I would drive Luca to his football training at Kemnay and Gary would pick him up after he'd finished. The first bit went well but when we got to Kemnay there was no sign of any activity. We drove around looking for other possible locations but eventually had to phone Gary to get him to check. It transpired that he had misread the instructions, so all I could do was take a slightly disappointed Luca back to his Dad's in Inverurie. No harm done however.

So that's me up to date again. Forecast looking good for next few days, so planning to cycle tomorrow (Thursday) and hopefully golf on Saturday too.