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white xmas

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

Harry Potter and the Poisoned Chalice

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.

gary tank commander finished

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/

snowing like fuck

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.

Christmas Forecast

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?

Stranger to Lover ?

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….

pepe-le-pew-heart

Squeamish

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.

Dont boycott Scotland

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

Mission to Cumbernauld

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.

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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!

scottish accents

my latest wee sketch