History

This board stand in the entry way to a building on George IV Bridge. It is reasonable to infer a Protestant connection if the layers of writing are deciphered.

About 50 years ago, my then husband and I received out of the blue, an invitation to join the Foresters, a Masonic group of which we had barely heard. We declined the invitation and never discovered who had sent the invitation. It was all a bit of a mystery at the time.

His Lordship and I were in town to buy some Euros for our visit to Ireland, but scurried home as quickly as possible to avoid the tourists. The miserable exchange rate will be a great help with the arithmetic required in knowing the equivalent cost of things in Pounds Sterling- just assume £1 equals 1€.

This evening I have my book group to discuss an interesting book, 'The Little Red Chairs' by Edna O'Brien. In 2012, there were 11,541 of these chairs laid out in rows along the 8 hundred metres Of the High Street in Sarajevo- one empty chair for every Sarajevan killed during the 1,425 days of the siege during Bosnian Serb conflict in the 90s.
Although it is a novel it brought back many memories of the atrocities committed during that time and to me there was an uncanny similarity in the story to the life before capture of the Bosnian Serb, Radovan Karadžić.
I will be interested to see how the discussion goes.