Abbey Road? or Glebe Street?

H2o

Considering the ambient conditions in these parts, the contents of this morning’s post were somehow apt:

Raintown

This was the scene in Glasgow Road Dumbarton this evening And this is Gilbert Lawrie, Chief Executive at Dumbarton FC. He’s trapped there – possibly overnight! Send beer!

Drymen Bridge

This is Drymen Bridge It has spanned the River Endrick near Drymen for decades, possibly centuries. Nothing particularly remarkable about it although it is quite an attractive Scottish stone bridge and carries the A811, the main road from Dumbarton/Balloch to Stirling, over the river. It was made a listed building in 1973. This morning it [...]

At long last…..

I wrote about my daughter’s visit to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and the reasons for it earlier this year. On that occasion I accompanied Eve for her tests and found writing about the experience therapeutic and a way to occupy time during hours of insomnia. This time Eve has chosen her mum to [...]

Steve Robertson RIP

Steve was a member of the North East comedy team Scotland the What? Sad to hear that he has passed away at the age of 78.

Pathos

My thanks to Ken Fitlike for drawing my attention to this harrowing yet somehow touching vignette of modern life.

Who Knows?

What drove Wales football manager, former successful club and international footballer and family man, Gary Speed to hang himself? What kind of despair or unhappiness could drive a seemingly successful and happy guy to this ultimate self-harm? In the 1980s I recall being the voice of the Dumbarton FC telephone news line (lots of clubs [...]

And continuing on the theme of Scottish toilet humour…..

Proper noun……or adjective?

I’m guessing proper noun because surely no-one would be so scrupulously honest with an Ebay listing if the adjective did apply to the item! There are of course two spellings of the word and I remember posting previously about one chap who probably goes through life completely untroubled by his name. This is because he [...]