So won’t you show me those pictures you hold in your head
And can you lose me somewhere inside them all
Because there are colours that run through the heart of me
That only you can see
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Posts from ‘November, 2007’
Not long now. Gig starts 8pm.
Modern comics
I was wondering last night about modern comics. Not that Marvel Superhero shite, proper comics like ‘The Beano’ and ‘The Dandy’. I was thinking in particular as to whether they try and make them relevant to todays kids. Does Dennis the Menace have a mobile phone. Is he still allowed to punch Walter the Softie, [...]
Wearing a groove in the pavement
I looked up from the bus this morning to see an unusual sight. Hundreds of commuters were piling up the steps out of Waverley Station, rushing on their way to work, huddling into their jackets to keep warm. In the face of this deluge of bodies, one man was calmly walking in a straight line [...]
The weekend in review
Monday again. Oh gloom. I’ve a busy week this week too which just makes Monday all the more depressing.
The weekend marked our first time out of the house without the wee chap, my parents looking after him for a couple of hours while we went for a meal to celebrate my wifes birthday. It’s odd. [...]
I had a dream
I did. Like 5 million other Scots, I dreamed of the Sunday headlines reading ‘Scotland 2 Italy 1′ or the like and of seeing Barry Ferguson’s grinning face on the back page of the paper as he ran to the Hampden crowd in ecstasy.
It wasn’t to be. Sadly, after a superhuman effort from a small [...]
Evening Shadows
Everyone tells you about the sleepless nights. No one tells you about how babies can be total loonies in between 5 and 11pm at night. Actually trying to get him to do anything other than scream the house down while you are trying to eat your tea.
So, a new tactic has been adopted. Wrap the [...]
