It was all Greek to at least two participants when Jeanna Papamichail, head of youth learning services in South Lanarkshire, introduced herself to Voula Fragogianniki, a planning officer from the other Lanarkshire.

Papamichail, who speaks excellent Greek for a miner’s daughter from Holytown, was taken aback - or as they don’t say in downtown Heraklion, “dumbfoonirt” - to discover that her husband and Fragogianniki were from the same small Greek island.

With all the hellos, thank youse and don’t mention its - kalimeras, epharistos and parakolos to you and me - flying around, it was perhaps just as well that Glasgow City Council had provided a buffet with paper plates, so we weren’t able to witness that fine Greek tradition of smashing the crockery after a meal.