9 O'Clock Toast
  James Ross, Mojito in Hand!      We don't have a 9 O'Clock Toast in my Mother Lodge. It used to hugely irritate my predecessor as Provincial Secretary when we gave the Toast "Absent Brethren" at the end of the Tyler's Toast 😉.     During the current crisis, the 9 O'Clock Toast to "Absent Brethren" has taken on a huge significance to the whole organisation, especially on a Saturday Evening. I was delighted to be asked to propose the Toast at the Saint Padarn Quiz-Olation on Thursday 21st May 2020. Here's a nice little toast I adapted from something I found on the internet.   Nine O'Clock Toast  At nine o'clock we greet you - no matter where we stand  We may be merely out of town, or in some far off land  With melting hearts and brim-full eyes we'll steal a moment's leisure  To call our distant greeting "Brother may I have the pleasure?"  For we are bound together by a great eternal link  To drink from that Masonic cup ...
 
 
 
Absolutely brilliant, I will go and talk to my dog!
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