Sunny but cold

It's been beautifully sunny this week but cold starts to the day - the golf course has had to have a delayed start every day for the last week due to early morning frost on the ground. Talking about golf, I had to pull out of my game yesterday as I suffered a bit of a reaction to my 2nd AZ vaccination on Tuesday. I couldn't sleep on Tuesday night and felt under the weather but thankfully last night was much better and hopefully that's my reaction all over now - although my arm is still a bit stiff and sore. Jo's been fine - she didn't seem to have any reaction. While on matters medical, Jo's 24 hour monitor has resulted in her having to go to the surgery tomorrow (Friday) for an ECG. Seems that blood pressure medication may be on the way. I've got my follow-up blood tests next Wednesday. Otherwise, apart from the scar on my chest after the recent surgery - I call it my funky tattoo - all's well. A sight that hasn't been seen on our driveway for 18 months or so:

Yes - 2 cars are back again. It took the garage a few weeks to fix up Jo's car and get it through the MoT. We're just waiting for the bill now - I suspect it will be a fairly big one. We took our main car - the Volvo - for a drive on Monday and went for a nice walk on a beautiful morning round Loch Kinord:

Planning on a cycle this afternoon as well - and another one tomorrow, this time with 3 of us. With restrictions easing we can have up to 6 outdoors now, but we'll be taking baby steps. Our next beer tasting is this weekend, timed to coincide with what should have been CAMRA's annual members' conference in Sheffield in the year of the organisation's 50th anniversary. It's now been switched to Sunday to avoid a clash with the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral. All the football fixtures have been similarly re-arranged - it just seems a bit over the top, especially as we hear he didn't want a big fuss made - no official state funeral, but it seems the media didn't want to hear that. The coverage last Friday was absurd, but it was good to note that Channel 4's Gogglebox had record viewing figures as it was the only channel not doing mass coverage of the Duke's passing. To close, a lovely photo of Asher on his birthday this week: