First white christmas here in 5 years. i briefly got out yesterday and snapped these photos up my bit.

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That’s Craig Levein just been confirmed as the new Scotland manager.  I think he’s a good choice.  He’s taken on one of the toughest jobs in football, and im sure he knows it.  The Tartan Army are a fickle bunch when it comes to managers and he needs to start with a win.

That was the series finale last night, i watched all 6 shows and enjoyed them all.  There was a hint of curb your enthusiasm in some of the writing and i think the show will get a second series next year.

here is the i-player link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pl12g/Gary_Tank_Commander_Stagging_On/

a white christmas is on the cards as we had our heaviest snow fall of the season today!

as usual half of the uk has came to a standstill.  trains, planes and automobiles are all fucked.

What is everyone getting for Christmas?

Im getting a podcasting microphone, from by my loving mother.  Little does she know im using it to make a series of filthy, foul mouthed and sexually explicit podcasts.

On boxing day im going to get a good digital camera, hopefully half-price in the sales. il use that to achieve my 2nd great ambition…. a scenic photo on Sean Batty’s weather forcast.

what are you getting folks?

Whats the fastest you’ve ever turned a complete stranger into a lover? I mean the timescale from the point of introduction to the point of passion.

For me it’s 20 minutes.  I know that sounds unbelievable, i can hardly believe it myself… about a decade ago i met a lassie after a disco at 3am, she was on holiday and i’d never seen her before in my life.

I was sitting on a wall eating a kebab, of all things. She sat beside me and without asking grabbed a handfull of my donner meat.  About 5 minutes of small talk led to 5 minutes of flirting and a kiss, then i used the immortal line “want to go back to mine for a bottle of vodka?”  5 minutes later we were all over each other in a taxi and in 5 more we were home, my shirt was ripped off before i’d even shut the front door.

It sounds unreal but i bet it happens all the time. Any of you have any good stranger to lover stories? don’t be shy….

Our centre midfielder Stevie Dobbin broke his leg at football today.  If your squeamish you might not wish to view the video. 

Im gutted for him, he’s a great wee player who trialled for Chelsea and i hope to be showing his comeback video asap.

I’ve been lucky enough to avoid bad injuries throughout my playing days, the worst i ever got was torn ankle ligaments,  in the summer i decided to quit while i was ahead and after seeing this today im glad i did.

I was chatting to a Canadian friend on facebook the day after Kenny MacAskil realised Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.  She told me there wasn’t a big fuss about it in Canada but had heard there was a “boycott Scotland campaign” in america. 

I laughed, and as a joke i said, “there’s probably a fucking boycott scotland facebook group”.  I typed boycott scotland into the facebook search bar, and sure enough there was such a group!

So i started my own group simply called “Don’t boycott Scotland”.  It attracted 524 members and for about 6 weeks Scots and Americans jousted with each other on the two group pages.

there was some real nasty jibes from both sides, the one that i remember most came from an american who came on the wall to tell us they were going to NUKE US!   Then all of a sudden it all died down, and everyone just forgot about it.  Here are the 2 group pages there is some comedy gold on both sites.

 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=145410310129&ref=ts#/group.php?gid=120151444270&ref=search&sid=613743150.1052236636..1

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=145410310129&ref=ts#/group.php?gid=120480458390&ref=search&sid=613743150.1052236636..1

Im just back from the coldest, snowiest and most dangerous bit of biking in my life!                          I set off from clydebank at lunchtime, temperature was around 2 degrees, it was sunny and the forecast was dry.

I snapped this christmas cow shortly after setting off, you can see how calm the weather is.  But the closer i got to Cumbernauld the darker the skies became! As i scooted up the duel carridge way to the town centre i realised a motorbiker’s worst nightmare: A BLIZZARD!

I havn’t even biked in sleet before, never mind a full scale blizzard.  Within seconds my visor was blocked and i couldn’t see 3 feet in front of me.  I put the visor up but that was no good either, i just got snow in my eyes.  I dropped to 2nd gear and stayed at 20mph the rest of the way.  It was the biggest challenge of my biking days so far, much more difficult than anything i faced on the big tour of Scotland.  As soon as i got out of Cumbernauld the snow stopped! Its because the town lies up a huge hill and it gets the snow when no one else does.

The highlight of the day was a stopover at the Duncansfield Shell station in Kilsyth, which i now proclaim to be the friendliest petrol station in Scotland!!  Listen to what the staff did for me… 1/ Gave me directions  2/ Warmed up my gloves  3/ Made me a cup of tea and even gave me a biscuit!  If you’re reading this Elaine and Linda,  i’d like to say a big thankyou! 

As for motorbiking in the snow.. NEVER AGAIN!

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