Photos, as promised…
April 28, 2009
Here’s a few snaps of yesterday’s festivities, as promised…
Badges, bookmarks, booklets, Bawr stretter!, the name of our exhibition of EM’s work, also opened yesterday.
We didn’t get an exact figure, but we reckon 89 people on an 89th birthday party is a fine guesstimate…
EM cuts his birthday cake, to much cheering, clapping and snapping. We never did see a more Bruce Bogtrottery cake…
Hamish, caught mid-think, on being asked, how do you rate the cake? (9/10, if you care to know).
SPL architect Malcolm Fraser and Mike Wade, who wrote this nice piece in The Times, have an intense discussion. This was unposed. Ok ok, it was completely posed.
Two of EM’s long-term pals, Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin and Glasgow’s Poet Laureate Liz Lochhead.
Ron made a toast in which he called EM ‘the grandest possible grand old man’. We concur.
YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.
Our sweet old etcetera... 
April 28, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Wonderful post, full of fun and celebration. Also, great photos to help tell the story. Really enjoying this blog – keep up the good work!
April 28, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Thanks Sophia. It’s really very lovely of you to say so. I’m glad you’re still checking in with us!
April 28, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Soooo disappointed I couldn’t be there that I’m going to use a smiley: 😦
April 28, 2009 at 9:09 pm
an unsmiley 😦
April 29, 2009 at 7:57 am
A glummy?
April 29, 2009 at 9:21 am
Och, can’t you just relocate to the West Coast to allow me to gatecrash these kind of things?
May 1, 2009 at 11:59 am
Some nice pictures here. You should give the photographer a credit line.
May 3, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Thanks for reading Gordon. The photos are by Peggy Hughes 🙂
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