Right. I’m officially sick to the back teeth of snow. I mean, building snowmen, snowball fights and sledging are indeed endearing side effects of the current cold snap but quite frankly it’s gone on too long. I want a fucking inquiry into this. Temperatures are so low that our central heating is overwhelmed and just [...]
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London smells of jobbies
A provocative title, I’m sure you’ll agree. Cue a deluge of abuse from Pearly Kings and Queens in my comments page. I’m not saying London always smells of jobbies. But it did yesterday. In the vicinity of London Victoria tube station to be precise. It smelled like the drains used to smell on Spanish package [...]
The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together
If you want to wipe out Ned-dom in one fell swoop, there is an easy solution. Bomb every fairground and amusement arcade in the country. That’s the conclusion I’ve drawn from last nights trip to the fairground at Leith Links. Arriving prior to the 6 o’clock opening time, we decided to kill some time in [...]
Thieves and Vagabonds
I’ve been a bit slack in updating this blog lately. My increasing use of twitter (http:/twitter.com/caledoniaman) has meant that a lot of the half daft rants I come out with tend to end up on there these days. Every so often though, something comes along which makes my blood boil so much that I feel [...]
No Russian word for ‘bawbags’ and tram dickage extraordinaire
Every so often I just feel the need to vent. Today is one of those days. It seems that everything is conspiring to bug me today, from call centre queueing systems to Edinburgh tram workers. Not that the tram workers are ever really out of my ‘anger spectrum’, but some days even they surpass themselves [...]
Bogston and Bully’s special prize
Yesterday morning I travelled to Glasgow. Alighting at Queen Street I thought I should pay a visit to the gents prior to leaving the station. The ‘Superloos’ as they are known. 20p to get in. That’s posh. Anyway (and stop reading now if you don’t appreciate toilet humour), in I go and find a free [...]
Take these frozen wings and learn to fly again, try to antifreeze.
It’s been an interesting few days. I’ve had limited internet access so there have been no updates to this blog. We’ve been in Ireland visiting family. It was good to get away and see everybody. Unfortunately, the ludicrous weather hit Ireland as hard as it hit parts of England and our plans had to be [...]
Nipping out for a chug
I dropped down to Princes Street just now to pick up the remainder of my prescription and in the process must have been harassed about half a dozen times by people trying to give me leaflets for one thing or another. I know that tonight, I will also be harassed by the “Record PM” guys [...]
Yar yar, Global Service Management blah
I like the train. I particularly like the 3pm train from Kings Cross as it only takes four hours to get back to Auld Reekie. Compared to flying, that’s a competitive enough journey time and you get a comfy seat and a table all the way. What I don’t like is when two fat businessmen [...]
Put the Lego away Bob the Builder.
Unesco are in Edinburgh today to review the World Heritage status awarded to the city in 1995. It’s a disgrace that it has reached such a point. Some of the developments going up in and around Edinburgh in recent years have been scandalous. The Caltongate development is not fit to grace this beautiful city. Read [...]
