Double Celebration!

[Rob MacKillop]

My wife, Susan’s birthday, and also my Retirement Day!
Bookshops, galleries and good food await us in Edinburgh all day. Naturally, it is pouring with rain! But we are happy!

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Congratulations to you, and Happy Birthday to your wife! Save some food for me.

 

[Pete Askew]

Well, happy birthday, Susan. Did Kate edit that bouquet?!

 

[Ralph Turner]

Happy birthday to Mrs and happy retirement to you, Sir!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, folks. We dined in a restaurant which last week was acclaimed the best Italian restaurant in Edinburgh. The same chef for 27 years, and counting. Beautiful ingredients and simple but perfect cooking.

Not a Kate in sight or mind!

The florist has her shop across the road. I asked for a garden in a bouquet.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Congratulations and Happy Birthday!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Cheers, Steve!

 

[Brian Moore]

Double congratulations, Rob.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Cheers, Brian. It has been a braw day!

 

[Julian Tanase]

The very best wishes to you and your good missus !

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Julian! Much appreciated.

 

[Peter Roberts]

Best wishes and pleased you had a good day.
I hope you resisted temptation in the bookshops...........I never can!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Impossible! Here’s what I came away with:

Petrarch’s ’Secret Book’ where he conversed wit St Augustine and Truth, and laid the foundations for Italian Humanism:



And a book on the race between two men to translate the Rosetta Stone:



I might be gone for some time!

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Petrarch’s ’Secret Book’

Ah Petrarch! My fellow citizen... (in the last years of his life).

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Clearly his spirit lives on in you, Gianluca!

 

[Peter Roberts]

Impossible! Here’s what I came away with:

Petrarch’s ’Secret Book’ where he conversed wit St Augustine and Truth, and laid the foundations for Italian Humanism:

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And a book on the race between two men to translate the Rosetta Stone:

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I might be gone for some time!

Good man
I rather thought you'd be a classicist.

 

[Gord Tomlin]

Happy birthday and congrats on the retirement! Enjoy!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Cheers, Gord!