Lots of good stuff and thanks to Doctorvee for some suggestions. I will wade in and excuse any busted links or formatting issues. We will get those fixed.

As the sun came up on all the animals in the Antipodes, this Sunday morning, my mind moved on from the overnight activities in the West Indies and the farce that was the end of the Cricket World Cup, yes the one the Scottish Cricket Team were dispatched from many weeks ago. The Periodic Englishman, very periodic and very Scottish, reminds me about why we male cricket fans do this. In addition, we share a trait that my Australian work colleagues and my family cannot understand. Why would I support the English Cricket Team? If Scotland does become independent, I strongly recommend it doesn’t look to the International Cricket Council for strategic advice.

As the day develops it is clear that we are in for a very untypical, driech Scottish day, with four seasons in the morning. This is very unusual here in Adelaide, drought stricken capital of South Australia. At least it is not as bad as Dilligaf describes from Jakarta. I have interesting memories of getting around in normal conditions, no congestion charges in Jakarta, so I can only guess how awful it is as everything from the sewers up, floats around the city. Although this is pretty bad, most of that part of the world doesn’t even have sewers and waste water treatment, ha ha ha. I surmise from his comments that my learned friend does not take kindly to the friendly souls just over the water and the Top Banana of TTLB Ecosystem.

My trips to Jakarta were usually brief from the land of clean living, where Binty McShae holds forth. Living in foreign countries can be challenging and lonely at times. Those large Scottish social gatherings such as St Andrews Day Dances, were always a little incongruous, with the dress kilt, not the ideal outfit for thirty two degree humid weather and rooms full of drunken people with tenuous links to Scotland, out-teuchtering each other.

It is clear from a quick scan of the political blogs that everybody, except the candidates and the most devoted fans, are very scunnered of the whole election thingy. The following examples display the range of pessimistic thoughts echoed throughout the election observations. Neil Sutherland has his own not so quiet protest with the Dixie Chicks. Holyrood Belle reckons Jack is making a Major mistake in strategy.

Fitaloon suggests the NotsoNew Labour election strategy is excellent for the opposition parties. Apparently David Milliband doesn’t go down too well in the urban heartlands of Scotland. Perhaps Tony has some spread options to pay for bail, that weren’t looking too good.

Every one seems very sick of all the party brochures, but the Liberal Democrats new strategy to pay to receive election mailings, has got to take the biscuit. Please head over to your local Post Office to pay for the privilege of receiving puerile party propoganda. The funny thing is that it was targeted at new voters.

Surreptitious Evil ponders the benefit of receiving election materials after he has completed his postal vote. When all this is paper attack is done, Silver Sprite has developed an environmentally friendly way of managing the unwanted propaganda.

My personal interest in the election is limited to having gone to the University of Stirling with Commitsar Jack, where he perfected his hack skills. Consistent with my memory of empty rhetoric, said with sincerity, J Arthur McNumpty lays in to Jack and his pitch to undecided voters.

Personally I have managed to get out of voting, for over twenty five years, because of a continuing trip around the world. I have often come across this kind of baloney in getting residential status. Good luck with the friendly people at the Home Office. I had some of the same here in Australia. At least I wasn’t detained as is the practice for some questionable immigrants.

And so to predicting the result and the way forward for the Independent Communist Republic of Scotlandistan as some critics would have us believe. Telegraph correspondent Robert Colvile takes a look at some of the next steps and who will decide. I especially liked some of the comments from Angry in Surrey.

Honorary Scotsman for the purpose of this round up, Tom Paine, Wintanagemot Club member, has contributed to the SNP as part of secret plans and clever tricks to establish an English Republic.

The newly independent Scotland will have to develop a sound basis for the economy and this fairy story will inspire other would be business strategists. Richard Havers discusses some of the challenges of producing organic foods and the link to future sustainability.

Responsible drinking and shoving young people in the slammer for having a glass of wine were addressed vigorously by many bloggers, but Anastasia Beaumont-Bott had a very thoughtful assessment. Her just say no message may be right for some, but personal responsibility seems to be the key message. I could have learned from that.

As for the touchy feely stuff, it is frustrating to think of the perfect response to an incident much later. Jake the Dog’s owner recounts a simple incident in the park. Just because you have a dog, people feel that they can come up and talk to you.

Kim “The Pirate” Ayres doesn’t seem to have any problems with female interest in his blog. All he wants to know is why?

One thing I struggle with is organisation. I was very impressed with Gareth J Saunders, an Episcopal Priest and Computer Expert, with the University of St Andrews, who shows how to keep things organised. I had to look hard for the bible. Obviously a disciple of the computing religion.

And in the transportation category, Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Republic reminisces about early years trainspotting. Finally Reactionary Snob gets behind a public service strike.

After all that we should relax and realise that there are people who like Scotland, regardless of all the political baloney. Hope it gets better next week. Just remember as they used to do in some of the countries I used to work in, Vote Early and Vote Often.

And if it doesn’t work out for you, here are 10 Things to Do Before You Die.

Greetings to one and all: Mr Eugenides at the wheel for this midweek roundup of the best in Scottish blogging (though it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge a lot of sterling work from DoctorVee in assembling most of the material you’ll see below).

Anyway, to visitors from outwith these fine shores, we should inform you straight from the outset that there is an election on, and indeed there are now just seven days of campaigning left – so where better to start than with an unprecedented release of sewage?

North to Leith, Alister and 1820 all had some observations on the stench emanating from the Firth of Forth. The Flying Rodent smelt it, too, and for some reason it reminded him of Michelle Malkin.

Calum Carr has an appeal for “democracy to be heard”. Yeah, good luck with that, mate.

Shuggy is, it seems, a little more circumspect. For him, the goals of democracy are to be expressed a little more modestly:

it is a system that allows for a change of government without the resort to blood-letting that most of the other options have historically entailed. It is a secret perhaps because it is felt this is too modest an ambition for a polity.

But it shouldn’t be, at least not for anyone acquainted with human history and the human condition. For it is the glory and wisdom of representative democracy to have turned something once thought of as treason into a legitimate activity – indeed in some sense even our duty. I’m taking, of course, about opposition. Our system pays politicians to oppose whatever government happens to be in power. A facade to some; genius, if you ask me.

It may pass off without bloodshed – though not if I run into the bastards who have been stuffing Lib Dem leaflets through my letterbox every day for the past fortnight – but that’s not to say there won’t be a measure of fraud. The new electronic counting system in place for the elections has none of the safeguards usually applied to such systems in other parts of the world, as OurScotland’s blog explains. Oh, and postal votes are also open to massive fraud because, as the Red Squirrel’s Lair reports, the new postal voting system in place for the elections has, er, none of the safeguards usually applied to such systems in other parts of the world.

So, who’s responsible for these two potential fiascos? Can you guess?…

Anyway, Fitaloon and Whoopdedoo both also had leaflets under the microscope this week – though luckily for their local candidates, neither seem to be as enraged by them as I am.

The polls certainly seem to point towards an SNP victory, but then again what do the polls know? As Holyrood Chronicles points out, two polls on the same day can say radically different things, which leads one inexorably to the conclusion that nobody knows anything. Meanwhile, SNP Tactical Voting crunches some numbers, as he’s been doing throughout. And Angus Nicolson looks at the situation in the Western Isles.

Assume the polls are right: what would an SNP win actually mean for Scotland? Over at Havering On, Richard’s view is that it will be almost entirely about kicking Blair. The Select Society noted that many small businessmen who should, you might think, be leaning towards the Tories, are actually backing Eck and his band of separatists, and suggests, correctly in my view, that this marks a real sea-change in business’ attitude towards the SNP. The Reactionary Snob suspects some businessmen are a little too close, though. Julie Hepburn is campaigning for the Nationalists, on the other hand, and says that the negative Labour campaign demonstrates that their time is passing.

High Politics sees the election as 1997 all over again. And DoctorVee points out what he sees as double standards from the SNP: parading celebrity supporters one day, and then deriding the other side for wheeling out Walter Smith to defend the Union. Scots and Independent, meanwhile, derides the other side for wheeling out Walter Smith to defend the Union.

At my own blog I had a bit of fun at the Nationalists’ expense by quoting the verdict of Professor Arthur Midwinter on the various parties’ manifestos. Worth reading not so much for my lefty-bashing, which was pretty boilerplate, or indeed my desperate attempts to big up the Tories, which were half-hearted at best, but more for the comments: a previous victim of Midwinter’s sharp tongue, Brian Monteith, popped up to put the boot into the good Professor.

For the sake of balance, C.B.Buckland saw the same article in the Scotsman and wasn’t the least bit impressed. In fact:

If I were doing policy for the Tories (don’t know how that might ever happen), policy number one would be spending about £8 million on getting Annabel Goldie a haircut. She has a fringe like an umbrella and a backcomb like Michael Bolton in a wind tunnel.

Well, I laughed.

Tartan Hero has the YouTube of Jack McConnell getting well and truly filleted by Bernard Ponsonby. It’s glorious stuff, unless you’re a Labour supporter, in which case you might want to look away now.

Robert Sharp had some searching questions after reading the Labour manifesto, too. And Clairwil is positively terrified. £5000 a year more? Who can afford that?

The splendidly-named Anastasia Beaumont-Bott, with whom I now confess I fell instantly in love after reading her great diatribe against the Lib Dems (“nobody likes you, everybody hates you, think you should just go eat worms. Big fat squidgy ones, itty bitty skinny ones, see how they wiggle and squirm. You heard me Liberals – p*ss off!“), has had leaflets through the door from the “Have You Had Enough?” party and, frankly, ain’t impressed with them either.

The Scottish Blogging Roundup is an ecumenical feast, so let’s finish with a little relgion. Some bloggers have tried, bizarrely, to link the gunman behind the Virginia Tech massacre to radical Islam – on the most spurious of grounds. Osama Saeed points out the absurdity.

Let’s also savour MediaWatchWatch putting the boot into the Scottish Christian Party, whose views on some issues are fairly… robust.

And finally, on a not unrelated subject, Bookdrunk has the lowdown on a frankly astonishing survey of British university students:

A third of those polled thought latex condoms had holes in them large enough to allow HIV to pass through.

You what?

You might have guessed that I am quite a big fan of blogging. As such, I often forget that the blogosphere isn’t the only place where people might be having an interesting discussion. The past few years have seen the incredible rise of social networking sites like MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.

Undoubtedly, such websites these are more popular than blogs. And political activists have begun to notice that they can reach quite large audiences by creating a profile on one of these websites. The nature of social networks gives them certain advantages over blogs.

Perhaps the most obvious difference is the ability to become somebody’s “friend” on a social network. You can’t friend someone on their blog (although MyBlogLog might say otherwise…). This can provide a more personal connection. People feel as though they are actually engaging with politicians.

Witness the Labour Deputy Leadership candidates. BBC News recently reported on the way they were using MySpace. Their success is measured by how many friends and group members they have. But perhaps it is telling that the numbers are quite low by MySpace’s standards.

Politicians putting themselves on social networks are taking a risk. There is a danger that they will look like your dad dancing at the disco. They might end up looking a bit stupid. I mean, would you send Menzies Campbell “luv” (a feature of Bebo)?

Clearly, for an increasing number of politicians, the desire to reach new audiences is seen to outweigh the risks. A lot of politicians can seem distant from ordinary people. The theory goes that having a presence on social networks, combined with blogging, will establish more of a personal profile.

A Facebook profile can also act as a space for voters to leave questions, criticisms or messages of support. Perhaps in instances where face-to-face contact isn’t vital, this could save constituents from traipsing along to a surgery.

One of the most important ways that social networks play a role in politics is through groups. Political groups can be officially run by a party, or organised from the bottom up by passionate activists.

On the one hand, groups can be a great way to galvanise support for an issue. On the other hand, they can be accused of preaching to the converted. Blogging is often accused of preaching to the converted, but Facebook groups take this to a grand scale.

Bloggers can often be found engaging in debate with people who hold opposing viewpoints. You won’t find this in a Facebook group. If you are a member of a group, chances are you already support the cause. People who don’t support are usually seen as trolls and are soon made unwelcome by the community. I suppose it is up to you whether you think that is a good or a bad thing.

I hinted earlier at the popularity of social networks. For people who aren’t at around my age, it might be difficult to realise just how much these websites have become a vital part of life.

Here is an example to illustrate this. Around 23,000 people study at the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh network on Facebook has 18,652 members at the time of writing. While this figure includes alumni, it is still a mind-boggling figure — 80% of the student population.

In short, Facebook is bloody massive among students. Bebo and MySpace are even more popular among the population as a whole, although the nature of Facebook (which originally began as a website for students only) makes it more fertile ground for political discussion. Whichever site we talk about, though, with such easy access to such a large number of people, it is no surprise that politicians are starting to use social networks.

While blogging attracts the hardcore politics fans, social networks can be used to contact the casual observers. Despite my love for blogging, it has to be said that most people just can’t be bothered reading an in-depth political blog. So why blog when you can use Facebook? Some interesting techniques are being used to reach people.

Today a ‘flyer’ appeared on the University of Edinburgh Facebook network encouraging people to vote for the Greens. Chances are that most Edinburgh students who log into Facebook — a lot of people — will see that advert. Meanwhile, Lib Dem MP Willie Rennie has used status updates to inform people of surgeries he is holding.

The rapid growth of social networks has brought concerns for everyone. Many people treat their Bebo or MySpace accounts as private, when the reality is that they are often just as open as any other webpage. Slowly, people are beginning to realise that uploading all of those photographs depicting debauchery-soaked nights out probably wasn’t a good idea. Employers are increasingly using social networks as a basic screening technique.

The same applies to candidates. 19-year-old Liberal Democrat candidate Stuart Douglas attracted the attention of the media after some drunken photos found their way onto MySpace. In the slightly scary modern world, this can happen to anyone. But the dangers for politicians are greater for obvious reasons.

Facebook is probably the most private of the major social networks. The whole site is based on a series of ‘networks’ (based on university, workplace or geographical location). Users have no access to the profiles of people who are on different networks (unless you are friends with them).

For politicians, this is both good and bad. Good, because it emphasises the local nature of campaigning. I have easy access to Willie Rennie’s profile because his constituency is next door to where I live. From there, it is easy to find other local candidates.

But this is a problem if you are a national figurehead. Menzies Campbell has a Facebook profile, but unless I feel like adding him as a friend I have absolutely no access to his profile. And his constituency isn’t that far away from mine! To an extent, the purpose of having a political Facebook profile is defeated — because most people can’t even see it.

It’s difficult to say how political campaigning will evolve over the coming years. Despite their massive popularity, social networks are still very young and activists are still working out how to best use them.

Today, most politicians’ profiles are run by the politicians themselves. But it is possible that in the near future they will be run by party machines. Politicians might find their presence backfire as constituents leave angry messages available for the public to view.

My feeling is that as a campaigning tool, the utility of social networks is probably quite limited — for the time being, at least. The real power probably lies in the way groups can spread messages and galvanise support.

Because of the organic and somewhat shielded nature of social networks, it is difficult to say what the most interesting groups are. But here is a list of some groups (Facebook unless otherwise stated) that seem to be significant. The official party groups are also a good place to see which politicians are on Facebook.

• I’m standing for election 3 May 2007 — a group made up of candidates in the upcoming elections
• I’m voting Labour in 2007
• The Scottish National Party (and on Bebo)
• Liberal Democrats
• Scottish Conservatives
• I’m voting Green in ’07 (also on MySpace and Bebo)
• Im supporting the SSP in 2007
• Free Scotland — quite a large pro-independence group
• Save our Nation- Stop the SNP — an almost-as-large anti-independence group
• Fareweel tae a’ our Scottish Fame: A Debate on Independence — unusually, this is a neutral group
• Re-elect-my-boss.com — hmm, an interesting approach…

Any other suggestions in the comments please! And don’t forget that Scottish Roundup has its own Facebook group. Not sure what for though!

A big thank you to Jamie McHale, who sent me some brilliant emails which gave me a lot of insight into why and how politicians use social networks. I have come close to plagiarising his emails in this post. He first suggested that I write a post on the subject and gave me plenty of ideas. Thanks!

Just a word on what to expect on Scottish Roundup between now and the election. On Thursday evening Mr Eugenides will be here with a midweek roundup. On Sunday Colin Campbell will be in charge.

Next Tuesday — in the last post here before the election — will be a YouTube roundup. So I would like to know your favourite YouTube videos from the campaign (doesn’t have to be from the past week or anything).

After that, there will be a midweek roundup after the polls close on the 3^rd of May. I’m sure that will just be the start of the fun!

As always, please send your suggestions and nominations to scottishroundup@gmail.com.

Hello there! A bumper roundup this week. There is so much good blogging at the moment, and since there was no mid-week roundup, this is a bit long and some bloggers are featured more than once. As Richard Leyton says, the quality of debate is that good.

So while we’re on the issue of mid-week roundups, I would like to point out that they do exist. And moreover, for the next two weeks there will be two mid-week roundups. So — for two weeks only — Sunday morning and Tuesday and Thursday evenings are the times to visit.

Perhaps the biggest story in the Scottish blogs this week was the suggestion that The Herald has suppressed an opinion poll that showed a big lead for the SNP. The poll was apparently conducted by mruk, just weeks after it predicted a lead for Labour.

Grant Thoms at Tartan Hero has the details. It is worth saying that Charles McGhee claims that no such poll existed.

Whether it existed or not, the thing to bear in mind is that mruk is not a member of the British Polling Council and does not make its methodology public. Therefore, all opinion polls from mruk — or Scottish Opinion, as Jeff points out — should be taken with a heaped shovel of salt.

Gus at 1820 is also critical of the Scottish media’s generally unionist persuasion. He links it to Labour’s negative campaign, which is another subject that Scottish bloggers have been writing lots about this week.

Red Squirrel’s Lair has takeen a look at Labour’s lacklustre campaign against the SNP. Korakious is surprised to see himself agreeing with a Tory!

Shuggy is also shocked that David Cameron has said something sensible.

I don’t know how many people will take Labour’s apocalyptic warnings about the effects of the dissolution of the Union but they don’t deserve to be taken seriously. The idea of Scottish independence isn’t ‘crazy’, as Blair would have it; would it kill them to simply say that they think, as I do, that it is undesirable? Because as it is, one is left wondering if there’s anyone in this Labour cabinet that has anything positive to say about the Union.

Meanwhile, in the Labour camp, Kezia Dugdale has a go at arguing that negative campaigning isn’t necessarily bad campaigning. There is a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to negative campaigning. SNP supporters are constantly criticising the Labour party for its negative campaigning — but this is itself a form of negative campaigning.

Back to opinion polls now though, and some really interesting analysis. An anonymous commenter wrote his ideas at SNP Tactical Voting, and Jeff thought it was so good that he gave it its own post.

It takes the current opinion poll figures then corrects it according to how far the opinion polls were off in 2003. A very interesting approach, with some eyebrow-raising results. Holyrood Watcher adds his thoughts here.

CuriousHamster has been doing some good old-fashioned investigative blogging. Two of the “local people” in a Labour leaflet have turned out to be other Labour candidates. A classic trick, and CuriousHamster notes that most people probably won’t even notice (even if he did blog about it).

But in addition to Labour’s PEB snafu, this is quite embarrassing. Will Patterson is wondering what has happened to Labour’s slick spin machine.

It’s at around this time during every election campaign that everyone starts to talk about the BNP and persuade people not to vote for them. Clairwil has all the information you need on the BNP’s candidates, just in case you were getting fooled by the superficial spruced-up image they apparently have.

Mr Eugenides tackles the issue from the freedom of speech perspective. Is it okay to link to the BNP’s website? A thoughtful post. Richard Leyton also has his view on the BNP, believing that they key to stopping the BNP is halting apathy.

So it is apt that Sarah at Whoopdedoo has decided to try and be less ignorant about the upcoming elections. She could single-handedly stop the BNP tide! (Or… maybe not.)

Over at The Mushkush Miscellany, Niall is close to spoiling his paper. But is that due to apathy? He takes a look at the parties’ proposals.

McGellie reports a conversation he had on the train. English people are probably more in favour of independence than Scots are. But is that a surprise?

The arguments brought forward are primarily economic, but Robert Sharp argues that independence has nothing to do with economics. It’s more to do with notions of nationhood and identity. But I suppose that isn’t too much of a surprise either.

Richard Havers is not too complimentary about the Liberal Democrats. It seems as though the tactic of making the Lib Dems a one man show he been criticised quite often. It’s strange, because usually the Lib Dems suffer from not having enough well-known figures. The Nicol Stephen Party approach is only exacerbating that.

Meanwhile, Menzies Campbell’s insistence that the Lib Dems don’t enter a coalition with the SNP is investigated by Fitaloon at MicroShaft.

After the election when Labour has been properly buried the Lib Dems will do anything to try and stay in coalition, they won’t worry too much about again being the whipping boys in any coalition, as long as they can get their snouts deeper into the Holyrood trough they will be happy.

Still, the theory is that Mr Campbell isn’t interested in Holyrood so much as he has his eye on a Lib Dem–Labour coalition in Westminster!

Away from Scottish politics, the biggest story of the week — the shootings at Virginia Tech — have prompted Flying Rodent to make a rare serious point: “Where is all this rage coming from?”

Forty years ago, it was almost unheard of for middle-class people to snap and murder their peers and colleagues – now, it’s treated as a force of nature, as inevitable and unstoppable as tsunamis and earthquakes.

Back in Parliament, why is David McLean trying to stop people from gaining information on him? Put in those FOI requests about Mr McLean now!

Clairwil brings us an amusing story about how Charlie Gordon reacted when an actual member of the public actually asked him an actual question.

Is this the big story of the election simmering under the surface? Doubts are being raised over the electronic vote counting systems that will be used for the first time on the 3^rd of May. I wasn’t even aware that such systems were going to be used. Fitaloon has this post on the matter, pointing out the Labour government’s disastrous record in IT.

Bookdrunk has discovered the obvious. If youngsters aren’t told about sex, guess where they turn to for advice?

Davie Hutchison has been campaigning, and it’s just a big who’s who of Scottish political blogging. He has bumped into Ewan Aitken and Mark Lazarowicz.

Calum Carr dissects an article written by Alan Milburn about the European Union. Did the article have a point? A lot of his criticisms can be levelled at Westminster as well.

Something a little bit lighter from Will Patterson, who considers the comparisons between the STV voting system and the scoring system used in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Anastasia Beaumont-Bott is offended by the new Mental Health Bill.

Why is it we want to lock up the people who cannot help their condition like people with mental disorders, but yet we are ok to let go / give early release and “support” to those who can help their actions? – y’know like certain murderers, thiefs, rapists, violent offenders etc…

Jamie Hepburn is excited that the MoD is “ready to enact SNP policy”.

This week Angry Steve is angry about the IPPR, who have proposed that the legal drinking age should be raised to 21 to curb underage drinking.

Are you really fucking dumb? By increasing the drinking age, all you’re going to do is increase the number of under-agers drinking.

We all know that the left–right spectrum is out-dated, but there are debates as to what we could actually replace it with. Flying Rodent seems to have cracked it.

…and that’s it! Phew! Some last minute notes now.

One of the roundups to appear in the next couple of weeks will be a ‘special’ about the way social networks are being used as political campaign tools. So if you know of any interesting ways that Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and the like are being used, please join the Scottish Roundup Facebook group and add your thoughts!

You could also just let me know through the usual ways — in the comments, or an email to scottishroundup@gmail.com. Any suggestions — blog posts, YouTube videos, whatever — are also welcome.

Don’t forget to pop by on Tuesday for the next ‘special’. Then the next regular roundup will appear on Thursday, and I am delighted to say that it will be edited by Mr Eugenides.

Welcome to the first non-political blog round up. If you’re sick of the elections then you’ve come to the right place. So sit back relax and enjoy some of the more personal corners of the Scottish blogosphere.

First up we have The Ill Man pondering Jesus’ noughts and crosses technique, office bores and chocolate.

Bawbags wonders if the end is nigh, whilst Kim Ayres treats us to his pirate look.

Some fine snaps over on one of the internet’s great undiscovered gems This Moment.  

The Flying Rodent destroys our wholesome memories of Friends.

A Bhoy From Leith says something about Celtic winning an important game against St Johnstone and for all I know about football he might very well be right.

Hurtling Towards Obscurity has moved but where to?

Speaking of moving the hoors have moved, though happily there are still enough tales of their comings and goings to keep the nosy neighbour in us all suitably scandalised. 

West Coast Ramblings makes one of his all too infrequent postings to contemplate the foundation of a Lawerance Donegan fan club.

Marginal Walker stares death in the face and lives.

Teaching and Learning and a Wee Bit of Cooking terrifies me with a vast crab. It might only be a picture but it has a face! Oh and they’ve also got a tasty looking recipe for roasted peppers. 

An unexpected sight on the Hillington Industrial Estate brought to us by Beware of Open Spaces.

Getting Over Getting Dumped, get’s over it in a traffic jam. 

David Bamford relives The Glasgow Garden Festival. Phew what a year 1988 was.

So that’s it for this apolitical stoat round the net. Happy reading.