A wee update

So what have I been up to? Well, for starters I had a great birthday party the other week. I went out for dinner with a group of mates (their mugshots are below!) The food was good and the wine was even better! We went to Zizzi's at Ocean Terminal, somewhere I had been meaning to go to for a while - it is a great evening setting as the massive windows overlook the docks and Britannia and the bar is lit with pretty, colourful lights and everything. Afterwards we headed townwards for some clubbing action. First we stopped at Mood, somewhere I had been before and quite liked. On this occasion however (perhaps every thursday night?!) it appeared to have turned into chav central, so after a few cheap drinks and a couple of free shots we moved on to a more demure setting on George Street - The Dome.

We chilled out there until closing and then headed downstairs to Why Not where we danced the night away. As is tradition on my birthday I bumped into some old school mates (Andrew Durward and Mark Cairns) and I chatted to them for a bit. ***For the uncensored version of events in Why Not you'll have to ask someone else, because my account of entirely what happened was somewhat clouded by alcohol!!!***

The morning after my party night I was forced to rise early and get on a bus to the Highlands with my EF group of 39 Hongkanese. Sitting hungover and sleep-deprived on a bus driven by a maniac bus driver wasn't the worst place I could have been but it was pretty close! The trip was something of a whistle-stop tour for the kids. They got to marvel at Scotland's coffin-dodgers at the Caithness glass centre in Perth, then they got to compare them to the coffin-dodgers trawling the streets (or should I say street?) of Pitlochry. Finally they got to experience public toilets in Inverness before arriving at Carbisdale Castle. The following day's itinerary was much the same except Perth and Pitlochry were exchanged for Fort Augustus and Fort William!

Well, enough of the EF chat for now. I have promised my Hong Kong kids (who have access to my blog) that I will write lots of lovely things about them, but I think I will devote a post solely to them, so I won't mention any more work-related matters for the time being. This evening I took my parents to see the Soweto Gospel Choir who are performing at the Queens Hall as part of the Fringe. They were amazing!!! I recommend that you all go and see them. They are such an energetic group who clearly have so much fun performing. Their voices are also immense, not to mention their reportoire. I came out of the concert with such a smile on my face - definitely a 'warm, fuzzy-feeling' moment!