Friday morning was spent on day job activities - I am organising (along with the Northern Ireland Chief Executives' Forum) a conference on local government reorganisation - taking place in Belfast next month - and whilst its going very well, its time consuming too!
This afternoon, apart from visiting residents in the Ancrum area about their concerns regarding overgrown trees and helping a constituent with a passport application problem, met with council officers, Tayside Police and the West End Christmas Group volunteer pyrotechnician to look at the health & safety aspects of our West End Christmas Week fireworks display this December. All went well and I am sure we'll have a super fireworks display in the West End this Christmas!
Further to my wee departure from normal content - i.e. the Top 100s blogs - I see "Civic Scene" in the Tele (http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk) tonight mentions both this blog and that of Marlyn Glen MSP (Labour, North East Scotland). So, having expressed my sadness at the impending departure of my council Conservative colleague Bailie Neil Powrie from the City Council in an earlier entry, in the interests of political balance (!!), if you click the headline above, you can read Marlyn's Blog!