I suspect us chaps are, this evening, a bit absent, in every sense of the word, due to the requirements of us excessing on port, malt whisky, bordeaux etc over the Christmas period. This you ladies will recognise is "de rigueur" for blokes otherwise we would have upset those lovely people who, so generously, donated these bottles of oblivion if we had not emptied them.
So whilst you might feel you have free run of the shrubbery for the mo beware we shall return - probably with a vicious hangover and a vile temper...................
Och weel, not long to the excesses of Auld Years Night........