My week was intended to end with the Rotary Club of Elgin's Charity Concert to raise funds for Help for Heroes. They had managed to secure the presence of the Royal Marines Band and an evening of superb entertainment was in promise. It was with very great regret that I learned on Friday that the Concert had been cancelled due to the extreme flooding in the area. I know just how hard President Graeme and all his Rotarians had worked to make this evening a success, and my commiserations go to them for all this being cut short at the last minute, due to the vagaries of the British climate. I wish them well in their endeavours to reinstate the event on another occasion.
The above unfortunate events did free up some of my time which I used to visit the Dundee Food and Flower Festival, itself almost a victim of the elements and in fact losing one of the three days the event was intended to cover. Two Rotary Clubs were present with their displays, to both inform the public about Rotary and to raise funds for various good causes. Dundee had one of the superb Shelterboxes on display, ably publicised by AG Harry and his fellow Rotarians, and Abertay a display of lots of aspects of Rotary and their 'Find a lucky Nail' competition, with the silven tongued blandishments of several Past Presidents pulling in the unwary but nevertheless interested passers by. I hope that both had a productive day, notwithstanding the still very wet conditions underfoot and the chill wind which was sweeping acrosss the site.
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