davidy233

Gave up smoking a year and a half ago and haven't had any alcohol since start of June. I'd never smoked or drank in the house really so the pub used to be where I headed when I fancied a fag in the evenings or at weekends and I carried on visiting the pub three or four nights a week after giving up the fags, loved a wander up the road for pint after getting home from work. Lockdown of course stopped that and while I had a few drinks in the house early on I soon realised that it wasn't the drink I missed it was chatting to the regulars in my local, and it was a habit rather than a need for a drink. By the time the pubs reopened I'd lost the desire to go for a pint, I played a lot of golf in the summer and would often walk past people sitting having a few beers outside the clubhouses - don't think I was ever tempted to have a beer myself. While I wouldn't say I've stopped drinking I'm certainly in a place where I can't see me ever being a regular in a pub again and that was where I did all my drinking.

One of mine - this was on a Saturday afternoon in March when Dundee v Dunfermline was cancelled and I had to find something to do with my day - taken from the Bank of Scotland hide at Montrose Basin. I'd only ever caught a brief glimpse of a kingfisher before - this one hung around for about half an hour.

I'm a professional, was doing Airdrie v Perterhead for one of the national papers, but yesterday helped clear the head after being at the end where most the goals weren't going in at Tynecastle on Friday.

I photographed the game yesterday - impressed with Carrick and I've got lots of pics with Fordyce in them (which usually means he was involved a lot). First time I've been at Airdrie in a few years, enjoyed the match and you deserved the win. You can see my pics here

Yep that's Dens

Just Premiership

Seeing my mention above I thought I'd have a look back at those promotion play offs from 2007 - here's some fan pics from the game at Gayfield and the final second leg at East Fife. That was a cracking Spiders team - I wasn't a very good photographer back then but I enjoyed photographing those games

Working from home with my other job - someone bought a pic off me today so all good

Ha ha - Cheers @johnnydun - stuff you miss when you've not been on p&b in months

Mmm - that pic is prior to kick off - note the wee boys with the flag in the background

I bow to your superior knowledge - that's a cock up on the live updates page which goes up shortly before the game

Show me where and I'll bow to your superior knowledge

No they weren't

Hasn't had his teeth whitened - he wears a gumshield after having them knocked out at Dens in his last match for us against Hamilton

I used to hate this tournament when our first team played in it - A 1-0 first round defeat away at somewhere like Falkirk or Dunfermline was what I would have been happy with most seasons. But I've absolutely loved our under 20s/21s taking part in it, losing in extra time to Cove a couple of seasons ago, coming back from 3-0 down to narrowly lose 3-2 to Alloa last season and last night's penalty win against the last 20s league champions have all been cracking games. Most fans/players don't care about this but it was obvious last night that both Dundee and Hibs' kids cared a lot - loved it.