It's a hot one today and it's going to be even hotter over the next few days we're told. I'll be heading across to the golf course shortly - looking forward to it. I've now received confirmation of my knee operation - August 6th it is. I guess I'll be in recovery mode from then until about the end of the year so now's the time to get things done.
Getting a bit more golf in is a start - with the op pending, surely I can't do much more damage to the joint that won't be fixed then? I'm making a start this weekend as it's our group's Summer Tour and this year it's being held around the East Kilbride/Strathaven area. The rest of the group are playing 3 days in a row but I'll just be playing in 2 of them - the latter in a buggy.
Also next week, I've arranged another get-together with my old school pals - our first this year. We're meeting for lunch in Edinburgh next Thursday.
Ross hasn't yet received his provisional HGV licence from DVLC. It's a bit worrying how long it's taking - hope he gets it soon.
Also coming up is our great-grandaughter Kendall's 2nd birthday. We sent her a present and here she is with the first part of it:
Looking back now over the last week and a half since my last post, we had a visit from the Whaley boys on Monday. They came up to see the Grampian Transport Museum at Alford and had booked in 2 nights at Inchmarlo resort - where Lucy and Kelly had stayed on their last visit back in 2013. We took them for a curry at the new Saffron Garden (our usual haunt, the Derbar, was closed that day). Here's the team photo and one of Jo and me too:
The above was all written before I went out to play this afternoon - and it really was hot.
Last Saturday, Jo, Ross and I drove over to Dunecht to meet Gary and Luca for a meal at what is now called the Waterton restaurant. Gary and Luca were playing pool in the sports bar when we arrived but then we all sat down and Gary was presented with his 50th birthday gifts:
We've been enjoying the strawberries from our garden this year but Jo was also delighted that as many as 3 fruits were now visible on the cherry tree!:
Lucy also told us that Scott had finally sold their runabout Jeep and also his old truck, which was replaced with this:
Our friends and former close neighbours were getting rid of their old garden bench a decade or so ago. It was in a pretty sad state but Jo was keen to have it so I set about trying to resurrect it - and it worked for a while, but the bench was riddled with woodworm. I've repaired it as best I could several times but I really thought it was a goner this year. However, I thought I would give it one last go to see if we could get at least one more year out of it. I replaced one of the seat slats and effected some crude repairs to the seat back as well as repainting the ironwork. As long as you don't examine it too closely it doesn't look too bad now:
Funnily enough we're going out tomorrow night for our second curry this week - with those same former neighbours and still good friends.
Oh - and today I finally got round to booking our flights for our return to our Marriott's Marbella timeshare in October. Anyone fancy joining us?
