John Wylam - his Leaving-Do - age 65 and three-quarters
Now this was not a big event, but it went very well, and my thanks go to all who were able to attend.
Date: Thursday 19/March/2009
the Leaving-do trail
At 5.30pm after work, a few beers were had in the Golden Rule on Yeaman Place just off Dundee Street. In other words, just up the side road opposite the SKM office.
At 7.30pm or thereby, we decamped to Jimmy Chungs on Grindlay Street for the Chinese buffet-style meal; excellent choice of venue (suggested by Paul Paton - thanks Paul); no pre-arrangements were necessary, we just turned up en-masse and they accommodated us easily.
At 9.30pm or thereby; meal finished, we regrouped at Harry's Bar on Randolph Place (across the lights from the east end of Melville Street). The Rab Howat (Thursday-night) Band were playing as usual, and were in fine form. There was dancing, but I have yet to see any embarrassing photographs, so hope to have got away with that one.
At 12 midnight or thereby; after the band had finished, we trundled off to the Rat Pack basement bar on Shandwick Place just around the corner from the Rutland (north end of Lothian Road) The entertainment turned out to be an Elvis impersonator, who was, actually, very good (my opinion). There was more dancing, but I don't think anyone there was capable of holding a camera steady, so no worries there.
At 01.15am, or maybe it was 02.15am I left to go home and stood on the corner of Lothian Road/Princes Street, looking out for a taxi, but - lo and behold - there was a night bus tootling around the corner from Charlotte Square, so I jumped on that and saved myself the taxi fare; magic!
Finally, some miscellaneous ramblings, for the hell of it
Being links to some items you may care to consider apropos my - err - illustrious career as a structural engineer.
Click on the links. Only the last two are my own 'work'. (Work he calls it?).
1. Early disappointment for my mother.
2. My keep-your-head-below-the-parapet engineering management style.
3. Dreams unfulfilled, in other words life as a roadie rather than being a structural engineer.
4. I've decided to try learning the electric guitar in my retirement; have bought one already (£55 brand new, so it must be good);
and this is what it sounds like so far.
5. And if this is one of my better works, which it probably is, then you can see why I kept the day job as a structural engineer.
Thanks again to all who managed to come along.
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