Musis Respublica Floret
Annual Dinner 2008 - The Dinner and Speeches
- Calmac lead the top table
- into dining room
- Joyce pours Chris another drink
- Daphne Maclean and Roy Mackenzie
- with Simon and Mary Card
- Brian Wallace Alex Prentice and Juliet Gilbert
- just about to tuck in
- ..unfazed, Al Senter
- starts the proceedings
- Veronica Mountford and Eric Steedman
- with a glimpse of Maureen Robertson
- A sneaky shot of Chris Pountain
- .. usually he manages to avoid the camera
- Rector George Smuga
- reports on another good year at the RHS
- Hmmm, what am I going to say?
- Our guest speaker collects his thoughts
- Al asked our Guest speaker if he believed
- in free speech....
- Hope my kilt doesn't clash
- with Jane Hamilton's dress!
- Newcomer James Christie chats to
- ex London Club President Alastair Maclean
- Service was excellent at the Cavendish.
- Starter served swiftly to all the tables
- Guest speaker George Pascoe-Watson
- mistakes Al Senter for a waiter
- Watsonian Club president Jack Mountford
- with wife Veronica
- Brian Wallace and Alex Prentice
- enjoy Al Senter's humour
- President of the Edinburgh RHS FP club
- Val Tudball relates the club's news
- ..but deplores the compensation culture
- unheard of when he started teaching
- Susan Tudball joins in the applause
- ..George Pascoe-Watson said he did, so Al
- invited him to come along and speak for free.