Making slow progress

It has been a busy couple of days doing lots of little DIY jobs at the Dolphin Inn whilst covering shifts for Billy who is still on holiday, however he is back this week and things will return to normal again, giving me time to play catch up.

Unfortunately we are getting the wrong kind of publicity this week as the trial of Lee McNamara has started at the High Court, Edinburgh where he has been charged with the murder of Steven Curran, the previous Manager of the Dolphin Inn in October last year. There a several of the customers who have been called as witnesses so things are a bit subdued at the moment. there has been coverage in the papers and on the Scottish TV. Seems that Mcnamara's excuse for the assault which led to the death was that Mr Curran had been "winding up" him up so he wanted to "teach him a lesson" - just a bit O T T.

However, we have had some nice visitors to the restaurant who have enjoyed their meals and those who live local have all said that they will come back to see us again, which is good - word of mouth being the best recommendation you can get.

With a change of subject I see that the "Weirs", winners of the £161 million lottery jackpot, have discovered the erring of their ways when they chose to go public - thye have had to move out of their home and go into hiding - hopefully they will manage to resolve their prediciment.

On the other hand, in this current climate of high unemployment, there are several vacancies in the jobmarket, namely senior Police Posts in the Metropolitan Police and for budding journalists in whatever paper is produced to take over from the News of the World !! Lots of wheeling, dealing and exposures following the phone hacking revelations - but not to worry, if no one wants the jobs, there is a long queue of immigrants sitting in France trying to get through the Chunnell or onto the ferries to make a new life here, claim benefits, and send money back home.

Nice wee story on the front of the Daily Record about a gentleman from Perth who met a young lady in Jamaica a couple of years ago, "fell in love" got a visa, and when he brought her into the UK to get married she hopped off in the wild blue yonder a few minutes after the ceremony - to meet up with her boyfriend who is already living here !!