I spend a lot of time on this blog railing against one perceived grievance or another. Most of it is purely for comedic value. Whilst I often claim to be ‘shaking with rage’, I very rarely am. Until last night that is. Living where we do, we have experienced major disruption at the hands of [...]
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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 [...]
Wednesday morning doon the Volley
I attract bizarre situations. Always have done. Last night, after the Metallica gig, I couldn’t find the guys I was there with so started walking back from the SECC, through the Anderston area of Glasgow to get to Queen Street train station. About 10 minutes into my walk, I spot a marginally inebriated guy contemplating [...]
And stirred his red coat heart, to this Strange Engine
I can’t speak. My knee is agony and I’m absolutely knackered. Must have been Marillion Weekend then…… I’ve been back from The Netherlands for a couple of days now and I’m slowly recovering. After arriving at Port Zelande on Friday, it was straight on the ‘wreck the hoose juice’ as is always the norm for [...]
This time next week (I’ll be rubber)
A week from today I’ll be in The Netherlands at Marillion Weekend. Ouddorp to be precise. By this time next week I am likely to be well on my way to being severely drunk. I’m actually slightly concerned about my drinking capacity these days. I’m out of training. I used to be out most weekends [...]
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 [...]
Muscle Pains and Brain Drains
I’ve only just recovered enough to type. Saturday was spent with some very good friends at the soft play area at Ratho indoor climbing centre. Two hyper boys, one soft play area and two ageing, unfit Dads was always going to be a recipe for pain. And it was for me. When I woke up [...]
Where did all the time go?
Someone posted on my Facebook ‘Wall’ last night, saying that it must be about 18 years since they last saw me. They are probably right. What shocked me is that 18 years ago was 1991. I still think of 1991 as recent. It quite clearly isn’t. If you look back at photos from 1991 I [...]
Sleepless in Leith II
Last night was one of those nights when you just can’t get to sleep for trying. I should stress that the parentage of wee Alfie’s bairn was not the reason for my restlessness. Unfortunately, I can’t really pinpoint what was up last night. Most likely just a case of working away far too late on [...]
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 [...]
