I’m slowly getting through all these miscellaneouses and recategorising them! What a fun job…
I interrupt an evening of tidying the flat to bring you two pieces of observation. Firstly, I am currently listening to The Side‘s new album, Nowhere Left To Run, which I downloaded from iTunes earlier. Having got over the deep trauma of the scandal that was The-Side-not-turning-up-at-the-Ironworks-gate and invested in their new release, I am…
I got a message from Scottish football fanzine Scotzine the other day, asking for my permission to use a couple of photos – this one and the one on the left. They were taken at the final of the Challenge Cup Final in Perth in November, and have been used in an article reviewing last…
I’ve been listening quite a bit to Malcolm Middleton‘s Waxing Gibbous and Mogwai‘s The Hawk is Howling since buying them two or three weeks ago. Admittedly, both albums have been out for some time (particularly the latter), but I’ve never exactly had my finger on the musical pulse, even with artists I am a big…
Here are a few shots – 1|2|3 – taken in Edinburgh this week on my proper camera – the level of detail, the ability to change settings, and the zoom function, all show up my iPhone’s camera as good but not excellent. I was staying in a B&B at the top floor of a New…
I am sitting in the Barony, a wonderful pub on Broughton Street, Edinburgh. I’m not long out of work and am waiting to meet a friend for a pint and a bite to eat. Only I’m not having a pint – I’m approaching the end of a month off alcohol, a pre-wedding attempt to lose…
I’m sitting on my train at Inverness station, just about to leave for Aberdeen, and it all feels a bit strange. Firstly, when I arrived at the station it seemed busier than it nomally is at this time of day. Platform 1, the big long one where London trains depart, had a train sitting on…
It’s the last few minutes of Thursday, and tomorrow I head after work to visit Nicole for the weekend, and then spend pretty much the whole of the following working week in the deep south (Edinburgh and Glasgow). After eleven consecutive nights at home – surely a record – another burst of travels begin. I’ve…
Inverness has a relatively small city centre, so it’s often quite hard to avoid invaders when they appear. Mormons, for instance, used to be quite high profile around town, but I’ve not seen them – or had them on my doorstep – for some time now, which is good. Chuggers are the latest invaders –…
Seen in Dornoch this afternoon on a wee excursion with Nicole. Click the picture for an attempted explanation.
No sooner has the football season ended, it seems, than the next one has started, and we’ve almost had a team knocked out of Europe already. The league season proper starts in a few weeks, but the European qualifiers are underway, with Motherwell having wobbled their way through their Europa League first round. I’m not…
A wee while ago, I discovered the rather excellent wee series on the BBC News website, Five Minutes With…. As the name suggests, it’s a series of five minute interviews, and those going under the clock are a diverse bunch ranging from Jason Donovan to William Hague, Moby to Terry Pratchett. The interviewer, Matthew Stadlen,…
I got back from Glasgow yesterday evening, teeth all checked (24 hour trip for a 10 minute check-up – private dental care here I come?), and numerous friends all caught up with. Now starts nearly two weeks with no travels, which will be a marvellous novelty. It was wonderful being back in St Silas on…
If it’s Sunday, it must be Glasgow. Thankfully, it’s bright and sunny, and free of the humidity or rain that the city often throws up. I’m sitting in Offshore, a nice wee cafe in the west end that is not as busy as it can be. I’d be in iCafe just along the road (on…
I’ve been enjoying a quiet Saturday so far, so have been pressing on with uploading photos from the rest of the Shetland trip. It was so nice, after so many visits of rarely seeing more than the college, the airport and Lerwick town centre, to be able to get to pretty much most bits of…
Yesterday was a long day in Dundee. The length of the day was not helped by the fact that my train from Inverness to Perth was delayed significantly, firstly before departure due to a late arrival, and secondly at Kingussie due to points failure. Being couped up longer than necessary on such a hot day…
Greetings from near Pitlochry where I am trying out the WordPress application on my iPhone en route back from Edinburgh. I feel should be doing something to celebrate this advancement in blogging technology, but there’s not a lot you can do on a hot, packed train with a dog sitting on your feet and a…
On Monday morning next week, I have a dentist’s appointment. In Glasgow. It’s a source of minor irritation (and a reflection of Weegieland’s poor health) that I could easily find an NHS dentist when I moved there, but have never managed to do so up here. Being away from internet access the last few days…
I got back from Shetland earlier this afternoon, after six absolutely roasting hot days. The weather was fantastic, the food and beer wonderful, and we had a great time exploring, beach-combing, island-hopping, catching up with friends and randomly bumping into others. While away, though, my old phone contract expired and my new one (the iPhone)…
One thing I have done this weekend is get my iPhone. It’s really quite a wonderful piece of kit – phone, iPod, camera, video recorder, web browser and loads more all in one wee handheld thingamyjig. Excellent. One thing I haven’t done this weekend, despite the moderate appeal of seeing Delirious? before they quit, is…
I got back from a lovely weekend in Aberdeen yesterday, staying with Nicole in Swish Towers, helping Mark and Claire move, and enjoying the warm sunshine. Well, I say “sunshine”: it wasn’t. The sky was rarely blue, with a thick cloud cover basking Aberdeen in a light grey, dusty aura that perfectly suited the city…