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		<title>Here comes the summer&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right then, here we go, my first ScoBloRoPoNo. No. NoScoRoPoNo. No. Now I&#8217;ve got it, NoPoScoBloRo! While I&#8217;ve got plenty of experience writing the Islay Blogging Roundup (which was inspired by the Scottish Roundup) this is the first time I&#8217;m writing a NoPoScoBloRo. Hopefully I can take you on a journey through a few Scottish [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right then, here we go, my first ScoBloRoPoNo. No. NoScoRoPoNo. No. Now I&#8217;ve got it, NoPoScoBloRo! While I&#8217;ve got plenty of experience writing the <a href="http://www.islayblog.com/2009entries/20090517-roundup79.shtml">Islay Blogging Roundup</a> (which was inspired by the Scottish Roundup) this is the first time I&#8217;m writing a NoPoScoBloRo. Hopefully I can take you on a journey through a few Scottish blogs (or related posts) and present you with a few interesting finds. Pour yourself a wee dram, open a bottle of Buckfast or a can of Irn-Bru, sit back and enjoy (that&#8217;s enough cliches. Ed.):</p>
<p>Let me start with the ultimate posting straight away. I know it&#8217;s risky as you might stop reading straight away, but that&#8217;s a risk I have to take. After all you might agree with Gary who now claims to <a href="http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/archives/2409">have seen everything</a>. Is there anything left to find in the wilds of the internet after that? Well, let&#8217;s see&#8230;</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve decided to stop reading after that first link, how about you go and follow Gordon&#8217;s example and <a href="http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2009/04/29/useful-procrastination">do something useful</a>? Alternatively you could just join Big Rab and <a href="http://bigrab.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/just-champion/">celebrate the championship</a> (that&#8217;s assuming you&#8217;re supporting Dumbarton though). Alternatively <a href="http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2009/05/09/campeones-campeones-oe-oe-oe/">just wait until 2012</a>.</p>
<p>Food? Do I hear food? Well, Scotland for the Senses <a href="http://scotland4thesenses.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-which-i-begin-great-scottish-tablet.html">started the great Scottish tablet giveaway</a> and a few days ago <a href="http://scotland4thesenses.blogspot.com/2009/05/be-free-my-pretties-free.html">set the first ones free</a>. There might still be a few left, so hurry if you want to get some.</p>
<p>If you need to walk all those calories off how about a bit of coastal walking? The Scottish Coastal Walk is close to completion, the most recent stage having been <a href="http://fifecoastalwalker.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/clachanmore-to-port-logan-6-miles/">Clachanmore to Port Logan</a>.</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s all too nice for you and you think all those MPs down on London are crooks, how about taking a look at <a href="http://edinburghsdarkside.blogspot.com/2009/05/baron-bailie-william-johnstone.html">Baron Bailie William Johnstone</a>. What a nice man that. I don&#8217;t know if the same prices still apply to MPs, but in the very same blog you&#8217;ll also find <a href="http://edinburghsdarkside.blogspot.com/2009/05/ever-wondered-how-much-it-cost-to-burn.html">what it costs to burn the average witch</a>. Always good to know.</p>
<p>Time to cheer up again, a few pictures from one of my favourite blogs, <a href="http://scotlandinthegloaming.blogspot.com/">Scotland in the Gloaming</a>. How about a <a href="http://scotlandinthegloaming.blogspot.com/2009/05/loch-indaal-sunset.html">Loch Indaal Sunset</a> (that&#8217;s the first Islay link you sneaked in. Ed.) or the fabulous <a href="http://scotlandinthegloaming.blogspot.com/2009/04/glowing-tent.html">Glowing Tent</a>? Not enough yet? OK, have a <a href="http://scotlandinthegloaming.blogspot.com/2009/05/sunset-stump.html">Sunset Stump</a>.</p>
<p>For regular reviews of places to visit in Edinburgh (including if/how they provide disabled access) try <a href="http://edinburghlove.wordpress.com/">I Love Edinburgh</a>.</p>
<p>Oh, almost forgot this, please <a href="http://adventuresofblackwood.blogspot.com/2009/05/column-for-dec-4-2008.html">make yourself familiar with the health and safety guidelines</a> while reading this blog. You know the drill: Don&#8217;t read this blog in the bathtub with a computer plugged into the mains while standing on a swivel chair next to the open fire wearing high heel platform shoes and flared trousers which are flammable. And please <a href="http://snptacticalvoting.blogspot.com/2009/05/twitter-ye-not.html">Twitter Ye Not</a>.</p>
<p>How was that with the people too stupid to organise a piss up in a brewery? Well, this is fairly close: Darroch tells the <a href="http://blackbottlewhisky.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/spirit-of-the-west-and-getting-a-dram/">story of the Spirit of the West official dinner without whisky</a>. Well, they did get their drams in the end, distillery managers are quite resourceful.</p>
<p>The Germans in the meantime find new friends on the west coast and even show a video about them: <a href="http://www.der-englisch-blog.de/2009/05/15/ticks-and-midges/">Ticks and Midges</a>. Actually, he says that as of writing the entry last week while on holiday in Lochinver there were no midges to be seen in Assynt.</p>
<p>Jenny and Chris <a href="http://wanderinggecko.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html#5968569738059135769">went fishing but ended up with sausages for lunch</a>. She also has lots of pictures of <a href="http://wanderinggecko.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html#8065641838709420521">Lambs on the rocks</a>. No, that&#8217;s not some new drink. Speaking of animals, here&#8217;s a <a href="http://islaybirds.blogspot.com/2009/05/thurs-14th-may.html">picture of a corncrake</a>, a bird not many people get to see (that&#8217;s the second Islay link you smuggled in, that&#8217;s enough now. Ed.).</p>
<p>Anna is <a href="http://littleredboat.co.uk/?p=3014">calling all international Scots</a>, if you&#8217;re one of them get your crayons out and participate! Thinking about it, would this qualify as one of the <a href="http://www.whoopdedoo.net/2009/05/1000-new-things">1000 new things</a>?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all for now, I hope you enjoyed at least one or two of the blogs (and read all the way down to here). On Sunday it&#8217;s back to the PoScoBloRo with <a href="http://macnumpty.blogspot.com/">Will Patterson</a>, I&#8217;m told the next NoScoRoPoNo is going to come from the master himself, <a href="http://doctorvee.co.uk/">Duncan Stephen aka doctorvee</a>. Night all.</p>
<p>PS: No, the title has nothing to do with the content really. I just liked it and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUg7OO1gZk0">the song was playing while I was finishing this post</a> (excellent choice! Ed.).</p>
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