A stroll back down memory lane to this time last year.
Aye, but carefu' man, flat Rs and none o' yon Dundee rollin' them...
I always thought it was Embra!
Hahaha, I doubt myself. As far as I understand it, they don't even understand Leith in Edinburgh 'proper' at the other end of the A900...
I don’t think you are a million miles off there Chris.
Mon dieu moi aussi. I think I’ve become an instant consumer of books. Reading through a few comments, I realise that I’ve read most of the books mentioned but I can’t remember a thing about them. Reheated Cabbage being one.
Slightly worrying.
These extra terrestrial influences? Is that to do with the lizards who have taken over WORLD GOVERNMENT (note caps) and are now changing the climate to favour reptiles? Or am I confusing this with the reign of George Bush 2 ?
Whatever Vincent, they'll still sell candy floss in Blackpool though.
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (Vivian Stanshall) has some good advice on tape worms! As to the weather Spain is the culprit. Keeping an eye on the Brit met pressure charts and sat24, two trailing cold fronts from depressions harassing the UK and Eire, got split because of Spain. The bottom sections of the fronts did some magic in the med and formed a mini depression which spun out of control into the Midi and then up to the Pays Bas and back down again. For some reason they couldn't follow the norm and head east like all good depressions. Some sort of barrier along the Balkans and the Black Sea with a wall of thunder storms, just would not move. I'm sure there's a good conspiracy theory somewhere there!
Chris: welcome to keep your head in the sand!
Mon Dieu, behind this lies a deeper logic: the "currently politically accountable" simply heat the air in Syria and the other "spring-countries" by selling them ground-to-air missiles to create their Af-Pak-Stan 2.0, - so they can say there is no climate change. When the refugees from the spring-countries arrive here, it will get hot again.
Climate change (that ongoing, 4.5 billennia-old feature of the earth's atmosphere) is merely going about it's natural business, and will eventually result in another Little Ice Age. It's cyclical, to do with extra-terrestrial influences, and zilch to do with CO2. And it's nothing to do with humanity, either.
There, that's my tuppenceworth - make of it what you like.
Take it you mean Reheated Cabbage. It's 8 short stories, the second one of which tickled me. It's about homophobic Scots queer-basher builder who lives in London. He dies having sex then in the afterlife is St Peter condemns him to eternally have the very sex he so hated which is to say buggering his mates forever. Title of that one is Catholic Guilt (You know You Like It) - something like that. Suitable for translation into French and force read to the likes of Mme Boutin whilst she is chained to the desk of a maire doing one of THOSE marriage ceremonies. The laughter on the train might deafen a few people, that's about it.
French weather channel Meteo has forecast that this summer will be the worst on record in Western Europe since 1816 – known by meteorological experts as “the year without summer”.
Brace for 'coldest summer in 200 years'
Where is that global warming when we need it ?
I think it is Valérie Rottweiler! She is having her bloke hold back the summer weather so that nobody goes out to buy Ségolène Royal's new book.
Irvine's Reheated Cabbage is one of my forthcoming bedtime rereads, following Alexander McCall Smith's Bertie Plays the Blues or Iain Bank's The Hydrogen Sonata. Bloody weather is sae dreek I cannae read onything ither than ma ane fowk wha live wie this a' the time onyways.
I thought Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs was brilliant. Unlike the weather!
Question re Skag Boys. The song Begbie sings at New Year - is it Every Beat of my Heart" if so, I'm sure it was released after the period Skag Boys was set - just a thought?