June update

Two-thirds of the way through June and I've just realised I haven't done any blog diary updates yet, so let's try and put that right now. Weather-wise, the month has been good so far - lots of dry, sunny weather - nice temperatures - only occasionally have I heard the standard Scots complaint about the heat as it reaches a relatively modest 20C. We've now passed midsummer officially, so technically the days start to get a bit shorter - although not noticably for a while. We had our second meet-up with Ross fairly recently when we went in to Aberdeen and took a stroll round from his flat to Queen's Terrace for a spot of lunch in the gardens there in No.10's marquee:

There is now a possibility of Ross picking up some work with one of his old pals in Edinburgh - fingers crossed. Jo decided our duvet cover needed upgrading:

Jo liked a picture she saw so it's now above the double bed in one of our spare rooms:

Luca had his first course (since he was a toddler) of laser treatment on his face to help reduce the residual reddening birth marks. It was pretty painful and his face was heavily bruised. Naturally, being a teenager, he didn't want to go back to school and face endless questionning - or worse, ribbing - about it, so Carole and Gary arranged that he could be home schooled for what's left of the academic year - so Luca's been staying with us for the last week. Gary came over on Friday night and we watched the big England - Scotland clash in the Euros. We took Luca back over to Inverurie on Sunday afternoon as he wanted to take part in his old team's end of season celebrations, which included a match between the boys and their fathers, which the boys won for the first time - and Luca scored what he described as a great goal. Gary's description of it was a little less effusive - maybe a sore loser? The bruising on Luca's face had gone down a bit by Sunday and he covered up the worst bit with a plaster. After the match was over, Gary brought Luca back over to Banchory - together with some gifts for Father's Day. Lucy had sent food and a t-shirt:

Recently, STV have been screening an advert extolling Banchory's virtues - check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGsWG2jAP8s. That's it for now.