Thursday has been a long, long day, starting at 5am with a drive down to South Ayrshire Council (day job meeting) - went to COSLA's Finance Executive Group in Edinburgh on the way back. A worthwhile and productive hour and a half.
Evening was City Centre & Harbour Community Council. Useful discussion about festive matters. The Community Council very keen to see whole festive period celebrations built upon and a fair bit of discussion about a possible ice rink from start December until end of New Year celebrations - a synthetic ice rink raised as a possibility. Made the point that the City Council is really keen to work with the Community Council on festive issues.
Although it wasn't all complaints last year (a lot of really positive feedback on the Christmas Lights Switch On events in the City Centre), the large ride in front of the City Square came in for a fair bit of criticism in my mailbag (many felt it hid the Christmas Tree) and some of the Christmas lights/decorations came in for criticism.
The Community Council's questionnaire should hopefully get some feedback on these issues from the local population.