RETRO Roamer
■It would appear that the tourist board AGM was something of a sedate affair this year. Until, of course, the membership’s participation got started. Various workshop groups were formed, with each having to come up with ways of ‘ensuring the generation of extra cash for the organisation’. These ranged from suggestions of a tourist board 500 Club to broadening the search for sponsorship of brochures. George Scobbie came out with a classic: ‘I reckon,’ said he, ‘that we should have food and drink vending machines for people queuing in the tourist office.’ Not such an unworkable suggestion, especially as the premises had previously been transformed into a dormitory, with 18 ‘towrists’ bedding down there on one particular night during the season.
■Were you in the procession on Tuesday morning – from Lochy Bridge to the BA Road End? Not a very long procession, thinks you. Well, it is if it’s a quarter to nine, and you’re all stuck behind a steamroller which won’t give way to any other vehicle. The result was a build-up of traffic such that nobody could get off Lochy Bridge to head for town. We were all simply steamrollered into submission.