Last night

We made it over to Inverurie yesterday evening in time to pick Luca up from his work and take him home. Gary arrived back from work a little later and we all then headed off to Rajpoot, one of the local Indian restaurants for an excellent meal.

Back at Gary's house he posed with the Partick Thistle hat I bought him - with Luca at his side:

On the way home, I took a slight detour to show Jo the recent winner of the North East of Scotland's Home of Year, which I'd cycled past on Tuesday. It's outside of Banchory on a back road heading east:

It's a little underwhelming externally but you have to remember the BBC show is called Scotland's Home of the Year (#SHOTY) - not house. It's really about the internal layout. The owner has done as much as she can in such a small space but, frankly, we were astonished that all 3 judges gave it maximum scores of 10 when it was shown on TV a couple of weeks ago. It's not the prettiest spot that it sits in, with pylons and a work site nearby - and the garden wasn't the tidiest either.

I forgot to mention that we've now booked our flights to Australia next year. We've reverted to flying with Emirates again from Glasgow, which means one less flight and one less airport, security etc to deal with. Strangely, they fly the big Airbus 380 on the shorter of the 2 legs, from Glasgow to Dubai (7 hours +). We then revert to Boeing for the second leg from Dubai to Adelaide (12 hours +).

Today I'm playing my second golf game of the week - the first time I've done this this year. I hope my knee doesn't bother me too much. Next week, we're going to the Tivoli theatre to see the Searchers on Tuesday, then, on Thursday we head off to Edinburgh for a lunch with a couple of my old school pals and their wives, followed by dinner with Ross, then back home on Friday morning.