Brilliant!

Well, I've dragged myself out of bed in time to head off to work, but it suddenly occurred to me to check whether it's a holiday today. And it is. And it's a University holiday tomorrow too. God bless Scottish holidays, and God bless the public sector.

I guess that'll be me off looking at chests of drawers today, then.

Have a good one. And if you're working today, my commiserations but you'll get your revenge very soon, I'm sure.

Mugged by the Frigid.

Well, I got given vouchers. What else can you do?

They don't have much there these days that I wouldn't rather get somewhere else (they played some Le Tigre while I was in, but that's more of an Avalanche purchase, I think). I got the Banshees B-side box, though (as none of you bastards thought to get it me for Christmas - it was exactly the same story with the Joy Division set five or so years back - I even got it for someone else rather than myself and was left cursing afterwards when it was sold out everywhere . . .) and some cheap DVDs. Not that that was the intention, of course - I spent several minutes agonising over whether to pay for a full-price copy of the 4+ hour miniseries version of Das Boot, but when I got to the till they rang it up and there was a tenner off. I am inadvertently a very miserly shopper, apparently.

No drawers. The shop on Princes Street doesn't do furniture, so I have to go to the Glasgow one to see if I like them.

The world.

I've just been listening to the radio news. ( Read more... )

Booze

There's a lot of talk about the expected epidemic of alcohol-related disease and injury after the upcoming change in licencing laws. There's never any comment about the fact that Scotland had a simlar change in the seventies - so were the changes in Scotland disastrous at the time, and has the trend up here been worse than it has south of the border?
( Dunno )