February 2008

  • Carr’s Cheese Melts – the crack cocaine of savoury biscuitry

    One packet is open, the other is sealed. I am securely supplied for at least the next week, assuming I behave in a moderate and controlled fashion. With Carr’s Cheese melts, this is not easy. They are the most ferociously addictive savoury biscuits I have ever encountered. In fact, they are beyond savoury. They are…

  • How they spell ‘bucket’ at the Brae Co-op

    As they say in the posher parts of Dundee, ‘Oor Wullie needs a cushion, else he’ll get piles fae sitting on yon bouquet…’

  • Bus and bike to Banff and back

    Left Glasgow at 8.30 this morning on a Megabus packed with unhappy people. Well, they looked unhappy. Read most of James Lee Burke’s Pegasus Descending, picked up in a charity shop and a recent addition to his fantastic Dave Robicheaux series, set in Louisiana. The Mississippi delta made a nice contrast to the windy, chilly…

  • Let it (not) snow…

    But it is. Heavily and, I hope, temporarily in Aberdeen. Tonight I’m getting the Megabus down to Glasgow to see Magnus and some movies. Why not the train, you may well ask? Well, because the only way I can get back to Aberdeen on Sunday in time to catch the infamous 305 bus service to…