Hello, folks. I've not been around for a couple of months - not for any good reason, just that life has been getting in the way somewhat and apparently reading here has somehow fallen off the list. If you've posted anything you really want me to know about, could you flag it up ( Read more... )

A couple of weekends ago, I skipped out of work slightly early and caught the 17:30 to Glasgow. ChrisC spotted, months ago, that there were cheap tickets on one of the Virgin West Coast lightning sales, and we thought hey, why not? Glasgow is, after all, one of the biggest cities in the UK and neither of us really knows it.

( ...when I called you last night from Glasgow )

Those of you who have seen my rapper team's Facebook updates will already know the punchline to this story: we had to pull out of the competition at the weekend.

( Some bad news )