Friday night is music night

Which is tough, since tonight's Saturday. However, we have a band on in the lounge bar and it's interesting to see how the customers divide between there and the public bar. The young rugby crowd are downstairs listening to Oasis on the juke box while anyone over 35 is in the lounge listening to Slainte Mhath playing trad Scots and Irish stuff. Some of the young folk have ventured upstairs, turned their noses up at the band and gone back down. It's a pity that Cath, Diane and co's visit didn't extend to tonight. They'd have enjoyed this.

It's a family affair tonight. Rob's in the public bar, Lorna's in the lounge and I'm runner collecting glasses, restocking and generally beetling around.

These music evenings aren't great money spinners (we rarely break even) but there's a good sized crowd having a great time and that may well be enough. It gets folk into the place and spreads the news that we are open.

We've been here nearly a year, but one of the shopkeepers Lorna was talking to last week still hadn't realised that there were new owners. We wouldn't mind, but she's directly across the road from us!