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Three days at T, and now it’s Monday and I’m back in Glasgow, wondering how my face got so burnt…Amy W turned up, barely spoke, sang relatively well and managed not to totter off her high heels. The rest of Sunday? Counting Crows were magnificently out of place. The Kings of Leon were, again, a…

…or possibly Paolo Nutini and band

Friday

I’ve been listening, initially with the religious fervour of a disciple, to the new CD by The Hold Steady, Stay Positive, and have come to the conclusion that it marks the end of the road for the band. With sadness and some anger at the critics who are boosting Craig Finn and the boys as…

Susan completed the West Highland Way last weekend (her second time), and has asked me to encourage you to contribute to The Sandpiper Trust in celebration. All is explained: “I have just finished walking the West Highland Way with my practice nurse Caroline Garrick. I was able to do this( luckily still) courtesy of ‘Sandpiper…

I pass this on without comment as part of my avowed purpose – to inform, entertain and speculate about what the hell is actually going on here…it’s like some sort of abstruse code… A great Chinese meal last night at Chow in Byres Road (unreservedly recommended) and I’m now in Aberdeen, after a truly monstrous…

Fantastic story from Florida about a black bear being rescued from drowning…just as long as mouth-to-mouth resuscitation wasn’t required. I’m in Edinburgh, broadcasting from the BBC’s studios just across from The Scotsman. It’s hot and muggy, which serves me right for complaining yesterday on air that Edinburgh was always the city I felt most discombobulated…

St Ninian’s Isle in Shetland’s South Mainland, yesterday. Mediterranean conditions (which means a survival time in the sea of, oh, 20 minutes). A tombolo is a double-sided beach. I think this is the largest in Europe.

The news on the state of Gloria (the Ford Transit Camper) is that she will be fixed (new wheel bearing, brake caliper sorted) on Monday. How much do you think it is for a new disc brake caliper for a 1989 Ford Transit? £150. Hell’s teeth! And I thought VWs were expensive. I fear Gloria’s…

Decided to take the newly-MOT’d camper down to Brae for Martha’s music lesson (ideal for parental hingin’-aboot) much to M’s fury – she HATES the thing. With good cause, as it turned out, because Gloria nearly caught fire on the way back. The near-side front brake caliper jammed on, leading to a red-hot brake disc,…