Fair and full...

...is your honest jolly face, Great chieftain of the sausage race!

Pat, Jude, Kim and I went to the Secret Garden this evening to join in the Burns Night celebrations. It was one of their special Saturday nights and it was great fun. I have to admit that I wasn't feeling in a good mood when I arrived but fortunately the black clouds soon dissipated and it turned into one of those nights where you just ache from laughing, We were in a little room upstairs which housed our table and another set for two people. I initially was a bit put out and thought we were completely out of it, but the other couple were such fun and the hosts kept coming in and talking to us so it all went well.

It is a small old world as the couple who were in the room with us were parents from school and even more of a coincidence I had been at school with Phillip until we were eight years old, when he left to go to boarding school. We reminisced and it was surprising the things we could remember from all those years ago.

There was a quiz throughout the evening and although we weren't the winners we gained the highest marks in all the tables upstairs. We do love a good quiz! Last night's quiz was great fun too. There were sixteen teams and we finished third. During the break they held a Play Your Cards Right game and my number came up and I won £20 which I was very pleased with.

Sadly the Easi Uplift convention must have ended yesterday as all the gear had gone by this morning. I so wish I had gone back yesterday afternoon though as Dave, the golf pro at the club, told me a funny story...In the car park was one of the lifts that went up to 100ft and they were letting the conventionees go up in it. On one lift though the mechanism jammed and a group were stranded up in the clouds. They eventually brought another of their machines alongside to rescue the people, but as the two cages touched they caught on each other and neither could move. The guy who was in charge of the original lift was kicking the second cage trying to unstick the two contraptions whilst the people who were in it for a try out huddled together and held on tightly. Eventually the cages broke free and they were transferred to the rescue cage and delivered back down to earth. Dave said a group of very shaken joyriders were taken into the bar for a very stiff drink.

Anyway, it was a toptastic night...great company, lots of laughs, fabulous food and men in kilts!