For our honourable member gWaPito and others working to keep Xmas moving

[Arthur Little]

I'm on Church Door Duty on January 1.

Given the time of year - not to mention there being a 'Hogmanay Ceilidh' in the Church Hall a mere few hours earlier - I suspect there'll be MORE Elders on Door Duty ... than there are likely to be worshippers on the Sunday morning.

[Arthur Little]

... a 'Hogmanay Ceilidh' in the Church Hall a mere few hours earlier ...

Alas ... ... the only way Myrna & I could possibly attend this particular function, would be for us to spend the interval between 12.30 and ...10.30 am (for the 11 o'clock Service) in the draughty Kirk pews - since WE don't have "our own wheels" ... there are no busses running after 10.30 pm on New Year's Eve ... and I'm buggered if I'm stumping up the trebled taxi-fare + tip. NO way Hosea!

[Arthur Little]

Alternatively, of course ... we COULD, I suppose, ask someone if they'd give us a *lift home But that's too much like "begging" - which I ain't good at - and, you'd be astounded if you only knew just how koripot some so~called "Kirky folk" can be in offering their services in *this respect.

[Arthur Little]

"Kirky folk"

N.B. ... Kirky NOT kinky!