“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.” - Swedish Proverb

"So don't ask me if I think it's true,
That communication can bring hope to those,
Who have gone their separate ways,
It hardly touched me when it should have then,
But memories are uncertain friends,
When recalled by messages"


I spent way too much on eBay today! I have been buying up all my favourite music, and missing divorce albums for the past few months. In fact I've hardly bought a DVD, my usual passion. Back to eBay, I always set myself a limit, but this one album , (which is really hard to find outside of Japan, or maybe specialist shops, and then again only for big bucks!!) I had to have. By the standards of you regular folk, who think nothing of slapping down ten of your pounds for a new release in one of those shop places, it was nowt, but to Scrooge McDuck here, well it was a momentary guilt trip , which I'm clearly not over!

I finally bit the bullet and booked myself a little break. I have two weeks off soon, which originally I'd planned on spending happily in Canada (oh no! that's got me feeling rather sad again... by which I mean VERY sad...)
It's hardly Alan Whicker I know, only one night in Glasgow, and completely alone, but by my standards, that practically makes me an international playboy!
I've always wanted to go to Glasgow, but I could never quite persuade my ex-wife.
I love Scotland, well at least the notion of it (in fact if Scotland ever declares independence from the UK I hope it can take us with it! I'm physically much closer to Edinburgh here than much of the Highlands are!!
I simply want to see the Glaswegian Architecture, experience some of it's fine art history and culture, and look at things in shops I can't afford (that's the things not the shops, although obviously both are technically unaffordable to me). I had a good friend a very long time ago, who hailed from there, I think that's where it started!

Plus I can finally wander the streets of Glasgow listening to The Blue Nile on my iPod, as Paul Buchanan surely intended.

I hope I can get organised and plan an itinerary for the all too short time I'm there. I'm actually staying in a four star hotel! I suspect the fact it has free wireless, will mean I sit in bed bemoaning the exact same woes I express here so often, let's see eh?

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart” - C.S. Lewis