The long spell of warm, sunny weather did, indeed, come to an end just as the weather forecasters were predicting. Not that we've had it bad over the last couple of weeks - far from it - but we have had some much-needed rain at long last. It's a bit cooler too.
Jo and I were at another funeral last Wednesday - our former neighbour at no.1, Frances Salter. We attended the crem but swerved the afters at Banchory Lodge. The crem was well short of being full and we only saw 3 people we knew - former primary school head Karl Revel and 2 of the Girvan/Thomson sisters - Carol and Betty.
Ross is getting ever nearer a start of his training with Stagecoach - he's just waiting for his provisional licence coming through from DVLA - hopefully very soon. Not so me - today is the start of week 14 since my pre-med the day after we came back from Australia. How much more can they stretch it without having to do yet another pre-med? The examination takes a couple of hours and covers virtually everything, but one of the most important ones is the MRSA swabs. Given that my op is now going to be at least 16 weeks after my pre-med, surely the MRSA swab is no longer of any value?
If I'd gone private when I had the chance 2 years ago - at a cost of £14.5K - Albyn would have swabbed me the day before the op.
My broken implant hasn't moved on either. They're still trying to identify the type of implant I had/have.
Brian and Mary have now booked 2 nights at the Tor-na-Coille on Tuesday/Wednesday 29/30 July when Scott and Lucy are here.
We had a lovely (bus) trip to Ballater last Friday for a late, long lunch at the spendid, albeit hugely expensive, Fish Shop restaurant (https://fishshopballater.co.uk/) with Anne and Leslie Mason:
Just a month now until Gary's 50th. He's already arranged something for the weekend of 5th July - presumably with some of his pals (Donald has the same birthday) - but we'll have a meal with him to celebrate round about then.
We missed our usual Sunday FaceTime with Lucy yesterday but we had a video call from Kelly on Saturday. Things have started to move with their new house - they appear to have all the official permissions now so they'll be taking down the non-native trees soon to start site clearance. The boys start their new schools in January but it looks like Chris and Kelly are going to have to find a place for the family to rent for at least a year before the new house is habitable.
Kelly sent a photo of Asher at Bush School:
Miller was at Kuitpo Forest too:
and we got this one of Kendall from Lucy today:
Kendall is in Grants Pass for her cardio checks today.
To close, just for a laugh, I did one of these silly "age your face" things and this was the result:
So I've "lost" 13 years!
1 comment:
Well done on the age test .
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