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  • Alhambra Nights

    Went to see the Bootleg Beatles last night, in the Dunfy Alhambra, spotted more than one chum in the audience, plus Geoff on duty. Band were just superb, I would definitely go to see them again, brilliant fun. Following on from Poulet au Disastre we had rather more success with the Haddock of Spinachly Joy,…

  • Donner und blitzen

    We have had the most extraordinary weather here over the past few days. Usually when we have a thunderstorm it’s over in ten minutes. Yesterday the storm lasted well over two hours, with one flash of lighting and clap of thunder so loud we thought a bomb had gone off. We all squealed like stuck…

  • Still crazy

    Last weekend was spent in Glasgow. Firstly, there was an interesting four hours at Ninewells hospital in Dundee, for an appointment at 09:10 which was stretched somewhat by a fire alarm.  This occasioned a total lock down, that saw me ushered into the room where they keep the anaesthetics, since there was no siren there…

  • Losing it

    It’s been a while.  Feels as if the world, or at least my version of it, has tilted on its axis somewhat, I’m finding areas of it to be, well, interesting, shall we say.  Less anon. But I have failed to comment on so much, especially the Christening and family party for young Callum Cook. …

  • and so it goes*

    02.05.11 My blog is not a place for political comment, chiefly because I’m painfully aware of my lack of knowledge on the subject.   I will only say therefore that for the first time in yonks I did not switch on the news, tv or radio, first thing this morning, therefore it was perhaps ironic that…

  • BA 8

    Just back from Blair Atholl, yet another wonderful weekend with Yard of Ale, On the Wagon, After 8 Mince and the Lilting Tilters. Most of DBFC pitched up on Friday night, and enjoyed a grand meal followed by many hours of music, laughter and insults.  On Saturday, after exchanging some wake up jokes at breakfast,…

  • Do be do be do..

    be do be doobie..               * I have ranted before about the exploitation of collectors, be it of stamps, coins, used tea bags, whatever.  The issuing bodies are milking it dry these days.  I was about to launch into this one again tonight, when I came home to another advice note for new stamps here in…

  • Bend It

    So, I’m back home from Pilates, having done more with my intercostal and abdominal muscles in 1 hour than in the previous 336, including band practice last night, and I am just looking ahead to what the weekend will bring.  As ever, detail will be in retrospect, but it’s shaping up to be a busy…

  • They’re here

    it’s just like me to overstay my welcome, man let’s sing and rhyme let’s give it one more time let’s show the kids how to do it © REM All the Best 2011 ….and I haven’t even started the Elbow album yet.

  • Dear Diary

    Yesterday was different.  Firstly our train was diverted via Winchburgh – cue several Fifers in an ominously quiet railway carriage as they contemplate the West Lothian badlands, conveniently forgetting that the locals think the same of Fife.  As ever, the woman beside me was  attempting to re-make her travel plans every five minutes and expressing…