A Tout Le Monde

It’s been a few days since my last post. I’m neglecting you all. I’ve also been applying for Polish citizenship. Only kidding…..
Nothing much has been happening really. I guess the baby is growing fine and a visible bump is quite reassuring for me as the father, given that I don’t have the benefit of feeling [...]

Turning Polish-ese, I think I’m turning Polish-ese, I really think so.

That’s it. I’ve decided to become Polish. Why not after all. Every fucker else is. The boy that butters my scone in the wee shop in the morning, the girl that cleans our office, the bloke at the bus stop drinking lager in the morning, the girl who serves you in the bakers etc etc. [...]

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King of the Castle

I’ve just eaten the most magnificent lunch. The ingredients were not at all magnificent. A ham sandwich and a yoghurt. The setting on the other hand was just fantastic.
Sitting in the sunshine in Princes Street Gardens in the shadow of Castle Rock and Edinburgh Castle is the best place for lunch in the city (perhaps [...]

What a lot of shite.

1000 litres of shite per second to be precise. That’s the amount of shite that is currently pouring into the Firth of Forth, not more than a mile from where I sit. Furthermore, it’s been pouring in since Friday teatime which is a lot of seconds and hence a lot of thousands of litres. Seems [...]

Musical ethics

As you’ve probably gathered, I’m a huge music fan. However, I still find it difficult to justify paying £15 for a CD given that I may buy 3 or 4 CD’s in a month. Until recently I’ve been subsidising my interest in music by buying from somewhat ‘ethically dubious’ sites such as AllofMP3.
I do however [...]

Spam free hopefully

Many thanks to Sarah who recommended that I activate Akismet to reduce the amount of comment spam. I had actually tried to activate this before but my API key was rejected. However I just applied for a new account at Wordpress and it’s sorted now.
Sooooo. Basically you no longer need to register, although I suppose [...]

About to be a dad/Spamalot

I’m starting to quite like these joint post titles. They have a nice ring to them and they also mean that I don’t have to make up my mind about which of two possible titles to use. I just combine them with the good old slash.
Anyway, as the title suggests I am well chuffed to [...]

Photos

I’ve uploaded a (very) small number of photos from our holiday in the north of Scotland to my flickr account - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jockstar/

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Jay Kay the Jakey/Rock the nation

I was walking up Leith Walk this morning on my daily saunter into work and almost pissed myself laughing when I passed an old drunk (jakey as they are commonly known in Scotland). Now, passing a jakey on Leith Walk is hardly a novel occurrence. The street is a mile long and links Leith and [...]

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