Jeans-dodging beer hound

 Hello again!

Another month closer to the end, and the nights have started earlier, my budgies hate this time of year, as do most sane people, if I had the money it would be 6 months NZ or Oz and 6 months UK a year. Topical as my nephew Oliver is heading to Oz for at least a year at end of November.

Just back from probably the only trip to Edinburgh this month, was Ok, visited Guildford Arms, Jolly Judge and Bow Bar, then got a god awful overcrowded train back to Kinghorn, a peak time train with only two carriages, people crammed in like sardines, a fracking joke. If you didn't have covid before you probably have now.

Talking of Covid, I got my Covid and flu jabs on Friday, it affected me badly, have needed very early nights since, and how I managed to struggle through a 7 hour work shift on Saturday god alone knows, was running on empty and went straight to bed afterward. Even yesterday I wasn't right and had to go again very early to bed, getting flu or covid couldn't have felt much worse.

So what was I up to this month? Well a massive fitness month it wasn't, just made my 200K steps today and my runs have been cutailed by illness and crap weather. Got a new boiler installed on 11 October and it's been working fine since, though did have issue with a leak in hose to washing machine that has now been resolved. On the same day I heard that Bernd L, father of BP died, such a shame. Bea brought back a few vinyl LPs from his massive collection to remember him by, will miss his often political and risque messages that he regularly sent.

Was also at the interment of Wishart's mum a couple of weeks ago, we had a few afterward in spoons. Notable in his absence was Tavis who lives like a hermit now, shunning any invitation from anyone to go anywhere, and the invitations have now seemingly stopped.

I actually have noticed that I haven't worn jeans sine 5 June, I wore shorts for ages, now walking trousers, but no jeans, not even my Levis I bought in Macys in NYC, in fact that pair are hardly ever worn as they are treated almost as a memento, still I will be wearing jeans again soon for sure. 

Had an eye test a few days ago and now got two new pairs, one will be for the car, the other for the sofa. Am short sighted so don't need specs for readingor so, just long distance is a problem. No point watching a Bluray or similar without wearing them. 

Oh, well I've havered enough (disadvantage of leaving last minute update until you're tipsy). Here a couple of photos taken this month. Of course some of my German trip was in October too, was a good trip to Heidelberg and Berlin. One photo is of me in spoons at Wishart's mum wake, the lovely neighbourhood  3 legged cat Lola, and Rudi, Jutta and the mob