Au Revoir Malcolm

The beer was good in the Stag as we gathered for Malcolm's little farewell soiree. Jeb Tyrie, Andy Gore and Gerry Mullins came along for a few beers, although they couldn't stay for the meal, and Andy Robertson made the effort to travel out from Aberdeen to join us.

Here's the team gathered in Franco's restaurant:

I'd run off a few of the old photos of Malcolm, going back over the last 20 years, and copies of "The Goredian" from 1996 and "BVFG - a Brief History" from 1999 were included in the pack that Colin, doing his Eamonn Andrews, presented to Malcolm:

This was prefaced with CK reading out the pen portraits from 1996, including the reference to Malcolm's "burger addiction".

Andy R had to catch his bus back to Aberdeen but the rest of us retired back to the Stag again, and it quickly became a double dram evening:

What was Malcolm thinking about?

Colin managed to feature again - this time with Andy M:

Andy M managed to find a guitar somewhere and, after some arm-twisting - never usually required - Gary finally gave us a tune:

And so we said our farewells - and Malcolm told us he's back in 6 weeks' time anyway!