Hello Everybody!

How are you all doing?

I am sorry ive not been here for such a long time. I paid a 'Royal' visit to my college last week and discovered that the last time I showed face there was in JULY!!! <no kidding>   

As for my work? They are also still waiting for me to 'show face'  And Ive got a meeting with my boss on Wednesday...

oh joy  ...  

So.. no work, no college, and it's fair to say that ive not had my 'blog head' on either.

Ive probably left it too late to do a 'Halloween' page, if I do one it will probably be a miracle!

 

On Friday night I was out with my old pal from work, Jack.

I have mentioned him in dispatches before on here.   We go to a certain pub for holiday drinkies. That's it..just holidays, so it doesnt amount to more than a few times over a Year.

But the regulars know us. and it feels like our 'local'

If we go on a Friday (which we did this time)

*yeah i know i'm not at work right now.. i know  i know  <ahem> 

But Friday is kareoke Night.

Ive not managed to embarrass myself (or jack) so far by Havin a go.. but there are some bloomin good singers in there, I wouldn't dare try and compete!

 

On friday night One of the off duty barmaids got up and sang a Rousing Rendition of 'Sailor'

EVERYBODY in the pub joined in....

That song reminds me of my childhood...I used to hear it at my gran's house

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Everybody,

 

Call me 'Sentimental' and you might just be right!

The music that is playing on my space at the moment, reminds me of my late grandmother, and I want to speak more about her in a moment.

 

In very recent days I seem to be developing quite a penchant, for all things scottish (i got no idea why) I would actually rather be a million miles away from the U.K. if truth be told, it's all going a bit 'wrong' in this country, and If We had the money, I think me and my family would bale out.   But I still love Scotland.

When Me and Drew were in Devon this summer, I was in our Hotel Room one early evening, and I heard a sound outside which was coming from the Bandstand, a short disctance away from our hotel, it was the unmistakable sound of BAGPIPES!!! 

In my current state of emotional sentimentality, I felt quite overcome, to be hearing them so far away from home, (ok, about 600 miles maybe -)

But it's a memory of Devon that I will always treasure.

Do any of yous know the Scottish Sit-Com   Rab C Nesbitt?  Well, Rab's wife is called Mary, 'Mary Doll' to her Husband.

and Mary has got a cousin called Hugh, or to give his name the scottish slant 'Shug'

Shug lives in Sidcup  *I havent got a frigging clue where Sidcup is.... *Answers on a postcard please!

and he works in finance -or similar. To all intents and appearances Shug is completely Anglofied, he is a man who works in the City and never a vowel is out of place.  That's ok, but shug is terrible lonesome for his Beloved Scotland, or 'Caledonia'

and every so often it overwhelms him, and the 'scottishness' breaks out in him, and he has to flee back to his 'braw caledonia', where a (usually) warm glesca welcome awaits him.

I searched YouTube for 2 and a half DAYS to find a particular episode of Rab C that featured Shug, and I found it this morning -deep joy.

From my memory I could recall, Shug getting the 'scottishness' but I couldn't remember what had triggered it on this occasion.

And would you believe it????  He was at home in his Lounge on the telephone, on a buisness call, and suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a pipe band marching, on his televison screen, and that was IT!!!! he had to escape once more to his beloved Scotia..

And so to my Grandmother....

 

 A while ago now, I penned a poem for my late grandmother, it can be found in the 'My Poetry' category. A very unexpected consequence of this, has been that I feel extrodinarly close to her. It's as if she is with me, I can actually feel her presence.  I'm amazed by this, and it has brought me a lot of comfort, and ive been pining for the years in my childood that I was very fortunate to share with her, and Andy's music is very evocative of that era.

So this explains away (i hope) the music that I am playing on my space at the moment

The root cause of my sentimentality I'm not so sure about, but I will leave you with the episode in question of Rab C Nesbitt. It's a half hour slot, split into 3 sections

Some of you (?) may not be interested in a whole half hours worth, but the scene invloving Shug comes at the very beginning, and I highly commend the closing scene at the end of the 3rd Section.

And if any of you require subtitles, then come see about me!!!  

mags x