Impossible Songs

Tonight we had dinner with John & Ali of Impossible Songs (www.impossiblesongs.blogspot.com) down at South Queensferry. I'd already had a couple of drinks so Anne agreed to drive down on the understanding that she'd be ok to consume copious amounts of the old Vino Rosso after which I'd drive home.

I've known John and Ali for just over a year as we all served together on the Committee for Out of the Bedroom, a songwriters' Open Mic night in Edinburgh. Anne has met them a few times too but this was the first time we'd all gotten together "formally".

The food was excellent (thanks Ali!) and the wine was flowing (though I was on Diet Cokes). Our background lead us of course to discuss various OOTB matters and topics such as performance, song-writing and recording but we also touched on the mighty trinity of Politics, Religion and Sport, with Anne promising to take Ali to Tynecastle on her mum's season ticket next time the opportunity arose. Anne's a huge Heart of Midlothian fan - favourite player Steven Pressley (aka Elvis) - mine is of course the mighty Robbie Nielson - because he was rubbish until he went to Queen of the South on loan from where he returned a brilliant player of course!

Needless to say, as this was our first get together there were various tales of "how we met" and "what we've been doing all our lives" which, for the sake of our reputations I won't repeat here - suffice to say it was a very entertaining evening.

We'd arrived at 7.30 and before we knew it, it was 1.30 in the morning so we decided to head home, if only to avoid everyone's Saturdays being washed out. John and Ali's cat Syrus was sitting patiently in a plant pot outside the main door when went down to the car, having been left out a bit longer than intended. He's a great looking we ginger cat with semi-long hair and very pointy ears and face.

On the way home I kept to 40 mph just in case any of the myriad rabbits on the side of the dual carriageway decided to run out and play with our car...none did.

A great night and we're looking forward to J&A's return visit to Crispycat Towers soon...

P.S. I did indeed forget to book appointments with the doctor and the mechanic...oops