The Glasgow Underground

Edit: It turns out that the owner of these videos doesn’t permit embedding. I have therefore posted the youtube links instead. 
These two amazing pieces of film are of the old Glasgow Underground a one circuit two-directional underground train system. The first brief one has a musical accompaniment from Francie and Josie (alias Rikki Fulton and Jack [...]

How are they Related?

 
What do these people have in common? See if this helps, they are Amy Winehouse (drug addled chanteuse), Gerald Ronson (convicted fraudster), Mick Jones (guitarist with Foreigner),Sir Malcolm Rifkind (plummy voiced Scots Tory), Bucks Fizz (early 80’s anodyne Eurovision group) and Sir Leon Brittan (oily old Thatcherite).
I will publish the answer tomorrow. (nae googling!)

Van Morrison

I probably have more Van Morrison records in my collection than those by any other artist. I think as a songwriter, singer and multi -instrumentalist he has few equals. I have seen him live on maybe about ten ocassions and these have ranged from the stunningly brilliant to the frankly mediocre. Unfortunately the latter outnumber the former and I doubt [...]

The Water of Life

Last night at the whisky tasting group, we had a Burns theme. Members were encouraged to wear a kilt for the ocassion and haggis, courtesy of Helensburgh butcher Joe Callaghan, was served. All the whisky was cask strength ones which means an alcohol content around 60% (in other words not watered down like most standard strength whisky which [...]