I'm not writing as much here as I'd hoped, but it's a bit demoralising when I get no comments... I sent a mass email to lots of friends, but have had no replies or comments left. Oh well.

The hectic period with all the family arriving and running around has almost ended. We took Arthur back up to Elgin over the weekend, and apart from having to sit through a few Christian singalongs, it was a very pleasant weekend. Andrew is leaving tomorrow - we had a nice chat in the car when he took me back to Heather's yesterday - and so the only people left from overseas are Aunty Mags and Uncle Robbie.

Aunty Mags is much better; she's been monitoring her blood pressure, drinking Beetroot juice and lots of water, although she's a bit sick of people telling her to drink water all the time now! The accident Neil had was not as severe as originally feared - at least, he is recovering well. I've spoken to Shawna and she's much more upbeat about the whole incident. I guess being in the US when it happened, her mind ran off with her and she feared the worst.

Heather's been very busy trying to finish off a project she had taken on before Dad went into hospital, doing a consulting job for a firm in the US. So she's been at her flat most of the week, when not visiting Shawna, and on the phone and the PC, finishing off a critical document. Yesterday I had the first chance in a while to log into Vanguard for a while, and ended up staying up later than I had planned on. But it's nice, sitting here at the PC, with Heather in the other room. I guess it's a change from visiting all these 'new' relatives and having to socialise so much, which I'm not used to.

Anyway, more of that tonight - we're off to Pam's for dinner. Pam is one of Uncle Ben Fletcher's daughters.

For the techies out there, I just got a replacement battery for my old MP3 player, which should give me more playing time, but the problem with the screen pixellating hasn't gone away. I also got 2Gb of RAM for my laptop, which makes all the difference, seeing as the graphics card uses system RAM.

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