Refurbishment of Restaurant Day 2

There we are the circular sign on the right.

We are in the process of completely doing up our restaurant in Edinburgh's Victoria Street. It is one of the most beautiful streets in the world-that is official not just me bumping my gum and it was looking particularly lovely  early this morning in the winter sun as I went back to see how refurb Day 2 was going. Ridding ourself of purple, red, black the biggest decision is colours. Which one?

John Graham

John Graham & John Corrigan

On the left you can sees John the painter daubing a few colours outside for us to decide which is the one  we want to coat the whole exterior. Wet they all looked a bit glow in the dark but John was well prepared instead of waiting hours for it to dry he just went marching into his van and returned with a hairdryer which you can see he is drying the wall with.





Meanwhile John the painter/hairdryer holder on the left meets with John the kitchen equipment supplier in the middle who is clutching a clipboard and also talking to the long suffering husband David Howie about life, Hobarts, fridges, hobs and dishwashers as the spark arrives.
'Hello' I shout and invite him over and introduce him to the others. 'This is John'.
Yes the electrician is also called John. John Strachan.
So now we have 3 Johns.

A non John in the Jon Smiling.

Well more accurately we have 5 if you count the two Johns inside - the ladies and the gents which are also being gutted and done up. I won't dwell on them but here's a photo of smiling man who is in the process of doing up the Johns...he is smiling because he is happy in his work but mostly because he is not called John.

Next our IT/music guy who pitched up next can you guess what he's called? Yup ....he is. John. John Lane.
You couldn't make it up.
Well you could but no-one would believe it.

So, which colour do you like? I wonder if it's the one we've gone for.
I am off there again today and will report back.


My challenge for today is to find another John on site.

You challenge is to come up with collective noun for a number of Johns.

A nudge? A clump? A host?

Oh and a colour!