Friday Night 17

Local conversations were dominated by news of yet another crofter being banned from driving due to being caught drunk behind the wheel.  This will make crofting virtually impossible for him, and life in general, for him and his family, extremely difficult - there's not much you can do up here without the ability to jump into a car.  There was little sympathy for him and it didn't stop customers having a few and then driving home.

Meanwhile we met some new characters - including a man hailing from 'Ull and a man who is not a freemason.  Not a Freemason was under the impression all managers are freemasons - and wasn't at all happy about it.  

It was clear that Not a Freemason is held in high esteem by all the assembled - we caught him at the end of a fairly long binge session - and he was clearly not at his best.  His drunkeness made him over-familiar and unaware of personal space, which is fine - you'd never enter a pub around here if you were sensitive to this - but it was a bit over-bearing (I mean hand on thigh, forehead presssed into cheek).  Especially when he moved onto the whisky - whilst merrily telling us that he never drinks whisky cos it makes him violent.  But he remained good humoured enough - and determined to show us his ballet moves - until his friends dragged him off home while the pub furniture was still intact.