Slightly Soiled
I took Zed-son to the Inverness-Aberdeen game last night. What joy when our home side scored that goal in the second half and what disappointment when the visitors got that equaliser in that last minute of normal time. I tried to tell my crestfallen nine year old that a share of the points was better than none, but I wasn't even convincing myself. Funny how a simple football game can mess with your emotions like that.
Ironically I was on the first train to Aberdeen this morning for the staff meeting. I thanked Tom Morton for introducing me to YouTube many months ago - long before anyone else was talking about it. Then I welcomed Bryan Burnett back from his holiday. He's been in America running the New York marathon in under four hours. He also showed me a slick pair of headphones he'd bought himself when he was in Manhattan. I tried to look impressed but to my eye they didn't look very different from the set that came with my Fidelity music centre in 1978.
"Very retro," I told him.
I also had a good ideas session with Frieda Morrison. I had suggested she introduce a new feature within the Beechgrove Potting Shed that would be aimed at people who are moving into new-build houses and don't know what to do with their gardens.
"I know what you're up to," she said, "you're moving into that new house in Inverness and you're trying to get some free advice."
"Well yes, " I admitted, "but there must be lots of people in the same boat."
Frieda agreed there was some merit in the idea. She told me that a landscaping company can charge about ten thousand pounds to sort out a new garden, but that people could do it themselves. It's important, she said, to prepare the ground before the builders dump the topsoil on your garden....and it's important to get good quality soil.
Is it worth all the hassle? Apparently a decent garden can instantly add tens of thousands of pounds to the value of a property.
Yikes...I'd better rent a tractor.
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