Through to Glasgow – and beyond! The bright lights of Glasgow Queen Street Lower Level – and the even brighter yellow plastic seating – are good for keeping you awake when heading from A to B. But what I’d noticed last time I used this station, and was reminded of today, was the almost constant injunction over …
Category archives: Moments
Shock – lack of snow!
We’ve all heard it – London grinds to a halt. The Midlands gets snow, and Edinburgh…not a lot. What we do get is ice crystals on bus stops that look like Jack Frost is a grafitti artist. A girl goes past a bus stop in a woolly hat – bonnet style, strings underneath, but with …
Three for two? No thanks…
We had a bit of a shock on Saturday when found out that our friend Neil had had a heart attack. It happened while he was in Tesco pointing out an offer on ice cream (the 3 for 2 of the title) to the assistant at the checkout. Whether it was the stress or just …
The triumph of the real
Christmas tree a go go. After a few years of being in London at Christmas time, the fixture is back to Scotland, and we’ve got ourselves a tree again. I can peer at it happily over my laptop as I type. The nice ‘green’ feature writer in the Times made me very happy recently when she confirmed …
Gainful employment
An infrequent occurrence – out for drinks on Friday night last week, meeting Dan’s colleagues and their partners/wives/girlfriends etc. Some of the talk circled, unsurprisingly, around the web and other techy stuff. But I also got chatting to one of the women there about what it’s like not to work full time any more – …