A funny couple of weeks.

It’s a while since I blogged but it’s been a funny couple of weeks.
Weekend before last we went with some friends to Loch Lomond Golf Club. It was a delayed celebration of Mike’s special birthday which he had in January and we invited three couples to join us for this real treat of an occasion. The men played golf around this idyllic championship golf course (the Scottish Open is held here) and we girls indulged ourselves in the fabulous spa. It was the weekend of the heat-wave and conditions could not have been better. But there was more.
On the Friday evening we went to the SECC in Glasgow to see Mark Knopfler. Mike has always been a big fan and it was a memorable occasion shared with 4,500 other folk who treasured the sound created by this guitar-playing maestro with a soft and gravelly voice.
We drove home on Monday to prepare for our trip to Portugal the next day and we are still here. We love this place and it gives us a chance to relax and enjoy the warm sunshine away from the day-to-day demands of being at home and at work – even though some work still needs to be dealt with.
Tomorrow our fellow Directors join us for our annual Think Tank. We started doing this five years ago and it is the most useful, constructive and creative time we have all year. Normally meetings are time-constrained because of more meetings but here we have no interruptions and a glass or two of Pimms in the afternoon helps us to think more creatively and plan for the year ahead. It also gives us some down-time to relax together – something we do too little of in the normal hum-drum of daily life.
I watched the tail-end of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was disappointing. Considering that, as a nation, we are one of the world’s leaders in pop music, how can we get it so wrong at this event?
The Grand Prix on Sunday was eventful. I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall of that after-race de-brief! Still, it was a one-two victory for us with Hamilton and Button heading the podium so good for them.
It’s very hot here in Portugal and soon it will be very hot in England. If you are carrying around some excess weight I strongly suggest that you get cracking with your diet and fitness campaign. Being overweight in the blistering heat is no fun and every lb you lose before the heat-wave, the better you will feel. Check out our website www.rosemaryconley.com for some genuine help and direction,.
Let’s see if we can think of even more ways to help you at our Think Tank this week!