Long Day - wild day - interesting.

Friday night , been out all day and now just trying to find a few words.

Headed off at 7 a.m. to Bookers, and then to The Mercat Bar, but with the over zealous traffic wardens no point in getting there even a minute before 9.30 a.m. - do so at your own peril.
Managed to get unloaded and parked up and headed back to help out. As it was I ended up in the kitchen, doing my bit with Claire and Jamie making neat little packages of vegetables - then into the sink - so it was a case of "hands that do dishes".
Our new chef , Christian ( French cahppie from Paris originally) appeared to assist with lunch, his nickname will be "Ze Fokkers", it was a case of "ze fokkers" are in the oven , "ze fokkers are nearly ready", etc. Quite a character and very pleasant - it was a good laugh with the banter between him and Jamie @ Shrek.
We had plenty bookings for lunch so I had enough plates to wash - Jack of all trades.
Had to head off to George Street ( via the smelly girls shop) to a meeting of the S.G.R.A.C. of S. chaired for the last time by Charles Woolridge Gordon of Essellmont, First Grand Principal, who is now the Grand Master Mason, and will hand over to Ian Fraser at the next meeting . Had a blether to him outside before the meeting - he is really nice and we had a great time in India last year. There was a good attendance, with members present from the USA and Africa also. Did my usual party trick of nearly dozing off during the meeting - nearly !!
Anyway - headed back to the Mercat where it was bouncing, bodies everywhere, but just a bit too noisy for me so I left for home. The weather was terrible, blowing a gale but the rain had stopped - we were not as bad as through the West where there was a lot of flooding .
After some dinner I headed out to post a few more x-mas cards and ended up having a catch up session with Barbara, Micheal, Liam and briefly with Lauren who was doing computer things.
Barbara used to have a Cup pack but helped me with the scouts and even went to France with us on our first trip there - lots of stories to tell in due course.
We had a few cards ourself, and it was good to get the ones with the notes inside letting us know how folks were , Izzy from Longniddry ; Grant Ritchies who we have not seen for years, and a few others including Chandana in Liberec.

Getting no peace to write as I am watching "Die hard 2" at the same time, great movie.