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There is an incredible documentary shown tonight on BBC2; Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods. It’s on iPlayer too. It follows a squad of soldiers defending the front line and they eventually get rotated and relieved back home, but not before 66/99 suffer bad injuries and 10 are killed. So many young men and woman living and dying to protect a railway line, they’ll be mentally scarred for life, if not physically destroyed.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/12058393/orange-lodge-stonehaven-march-aberdeenshire-donnottar-castle/ Marching Season seems to be starting early this year and in Stonehaven of all places! That’ll be a good fun day for all the family on March 16th. Apparently it’s to commemorate the memory of 167 people imprisoned in 1685!

Staying in Dundee tonight and having a lovely T in Tickety Boo. Nice service and traditional bar, so that’s my kind of place. I was disgusted in the Wetherspoons when they served a pint of T in a regular glass; not a T pint glass. Never seen that before tbh ruined the pint. Wasn’t the best spoons either tbh; a bit grim compared to Tickety Boo bar.

No point trying to be pious about it; for a lot of folk of all ages, it’s a bit fun to have a breakfast drink in an airport as they head off to somewhere more exciting than where they live for a few days. I travel a lot (nowhere far) by plane and happy for a coffee as it’s on work time, but have no qualms getting on the beer at 7am for a holiday trip. it’s not the drink, it’s the tolerance of bam behaviour. There should be more stringent rules as you board as well as massive fines for any on board misconduct.

I’ve been doing this Dry January, as I know I drank far too frequently last year (away most weeks for a couple of nights due to work) and we were in Tenerife start of December right up till Xmas, and I felt I was a fat mess by late December. I have done this Dry Jan twice before and like now, it’s been a dawdle. I actually only really enjoy beers and I was getting fussy about even that by end of last year. Test for me is this week as I’m off to Belfast on Wednesday for 2 nights and Dublin next week for 2 nights; both with work and I’ll get bored in the hotel. I’ll maybe go for a Chinese or something for dinner, as that’ll avoid sitting in a bar with grub and Guinness for company all night.

Much like Rylan, another reality contestant, Alison Hammond (the fat black lass) who is now a lead presenter on This Morning seems to have been “famous for 5 minutes” on the first Big Brother twenty years ago. She totally vanished from sight until somehow popping back up from nowhere a year or two back as a much loved national treasure! I don’t watch Love Island or the Essex type shows but I’m always amazed at how talentless folk can suddenly become household names overnight. Usually being a cheeky chappy or having your tits and teeth on show seems to be all that is required tbh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67772390 ….this is the next Omnicrom variant that will maybe keep the scientists and usual suspects in business for anothe RB fee eeekd at least.

I don’t know if Derek Draper should qualify as he’s not “famous” aside from his wife and for feeling a bit unwell these past few years, but he’s a stick on to croak it before Santa comes down the lum, from the looks of things.

It is indeed equivalent of short stay, as long as you are happy to pay extra compared to other airports and drive 45 mins longer, assuming you don’t live in Ayrshire. I am not getting my knickers in a twist over blooming airport car parks but the fact is you were wrong to say Glasgow is twice the price for parking.

Except it is not at all cheaper at Prestwick. I have booked 10 nights from a week on Monday at Glasgow airport and cost is £64 in the long stay car park. At least in Glasgow and Edinburgh there are options for drivers and the actual airport facilities are night and day comparing between Prestwick and the other airports in the central belt.

What a day to be alive when we have had a fair cull across politics, music, acting (if you call performing on Brookside acting) and now a cultural icon such as Sticky Vicky! There must be a waiting room in heaven where there’s a fairly interesting conversation going on now and Vicky is shooting out bananas from her fanny to the amazement of Henry Kissinger and a few Saints who are on gatekeeper duties.

I think I’ll go for 6 pints of T later this evening to celebrate in a mock Scottish theme bar.

This thread made me go back and look at the early pages of the Covid thread. When do we start a league table and moan about how shite Scotland is ranking when we are kicking around the bottom end of the league, until our natural state of obesity, alcoholism, chronic bad health and abundance of Type 2 diabetes roars us up to the Champions League spot!