Never mind, the evening meal was excellent!
If the apocryphal stereotype (at least here in the West) is to be believed you were lucky not to be greeted with "Ye'll have had yer tea then." (or if in Dr Browning's Parish "I expect that you will have taken tea already."). I hasten to add that that has not been my experience of folk from Auld Reekie, who have always been most hospitable.
I had always thought that "You'll have had your tea'" was an invention of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. I confess to having to look up Dr Browning, and Google sent me to Hollyoaks. The refined phraseology, however, suggested Morningside (where I was once treated to a good evening meal)and so I found him!
During the war Mum transferred to Edinburgh and was invited to stay with a work colleague's family. As a boy, we often used to visit Mrs Dunn in Earl Haig Gardens, staying overnight on occasions and I can only agree about the hospitality of Edinburgh folk. Incidentally, on a recent trip to the capital I tested my memory by seeing if I could find my way there - without the guidance of the tram we used to catch - and completed the mission successfully some six and a half decades on.
The plan for today had involved a trip to Airdrie for a reserve league game - but with Storm Brendan arriving, the idea of gales and rain on Drumgelloch station at 10pm does not appeal to this softie. Only Connect and University Challenge it shall be.
Very wise to stay in JCFC. I too shall be watching Only Connect, a programme which I find compelling but makes feel a complete numbskull and University Challenge which also leaves me feeling intellectually wanting.
I too have fond memories of Morningside. Years and years ago we were once in a rather smart Hotel, the North British I think it was called in those days near Waverley Station ( I am going back nearly forty years here ) taking afternoon tea and at the next table were two mature Scottish ladies also taking tea and speaking to one another in impeccable Morningside accents. At one point I heard one of the ladies say, proffering a plate to her friend, "may I press you to another tea cake Morag"....and it is that employed verb "press" which is just so pure Morningside for me. Being juvenile in humour, we spent the rest of the afternoon trying to mimic a perfect Morningside brogue, without success I think.