The 49 Club monthly dinner - April, The Mercat Bar

Friday night now, and this has been a bit of a lost day for me !! as a result of my attendance at the 49 Club dinner yesterday.

Started off with an early start in the Mercat, joined for breakfast by Jamie John and daughter Lily Walters from Monrora, Indiana,and Mike and Jackie Mitchell from Brazil, Indiana, who were over tracking down their family roots in Buckhaven, Fife. Young Lily was not sure how to take me as I was telling her about haggis, short legged sheep, and Mary Queen of Scots - however she did send me an e mail later on.

The 49 Club, a specialist wine club with a membership from the licensed trade have ten luncheon meeting a year using a different venue each time - so for this prestigious group the Mercat did them proud, dining room was dressed properly, and the meal was stupendous ( very good) just a bit unfortunate that I decided to enjoy the company and the drink (for nine hours) hence today's delicate condition.

Our staff did us proud, not only were they really smart, their service was first class, well done everyone, especially Claire, Dee Jamie, and Jemma in the kitchen.

Sir Christopher elected to run the show, so I had the pleasure of keeping Miss Talk a Lot and her pal Kate company for the duration - ladies with hollow legs !!!