hoodies & tuna salads...

Last night just before we went into rehearsals we decided to head to the supermarket to get a bite to eat. It was a kinda cold night so i was all wrapped up in hoodie/jacket/scarf etc. Anyway i decided to opt for the healthy option of a tuna salad and a fruit smoothie and while i was up at the counter trying to pay for my dinner i heard a shout from behind me. It was a burly security guard shouting at me to take my hood down, at first i had no idea what the hell he was going on about so he then decided to shout louder. At one point i wondered whether i had taken a brain storm and maybe pulled a gun out of my pocket and just decided to hold the shop up, luckily i hadn't. But the next time i might just! It then clicked - you're not allowed to wear your hood up in a shop. Goodness, what's our country coming to? I couldn't believe it, i was buying smoothie for %^&*@ sake, i was very close to telling the security guard to shove the tuna salad where the sun don't shine but i was hungry and i value my teeth...Where does it all stop? So if when Tom Weir was alive and had he walked in to the supermarket with his big wooly hat would they have asked him to leave? The reason Tom Weirs on my mind is that the smoothie i bought had a wee wooly bonnet on it, i think it must be a christmas/winter promotion type idea. I liked the idea and the smoothie was great, here's to hoodies...

the grouse & the rubiks cube..

This morning as i gathered my thoughts and tried to remember what day i'd woken up in i looked out of my window and thought i was still asleep. Before my eyes sitting on the wall outside my flat was a bird i had never seen around these parts, it was a grouse. It was a bit of a shock to see such a beautiful thing sitting outside in the pouring rain in a place he really shouldn't be, he looked confident and bold. I've only ever seen these birds out in the country where they really belong, maybe he had a date with a female city seagull? maybe he was lost? maybe he'd decided to move to the city to start a new life living it up in the big smoke? He looked like he was on some sort of mission, he actually looked like he was gearing up for stealing my car, i wish he bloody had!!?? That would have been a great story down the pub, 'aye the wee bastard just drove away, with me running after him in my pyjamas!'. Not sure anyone would believe that though??? Anyway, he sat there for a good few minutes just pondering his next move, where was he off to i wonder?? I thought afterwards imagining a group of neds coming along thinking they had stepped into Jurassic park, wondering what the hell it was, probably lobbing rocks at it! By the looks of this tough character i reckon he would of given them a good run for their money??!!!!

I wonder if he'll be back tmrw?

Those of you who have watched the 'Maybe' video will of course seen an attempt at figuring out the mystery that is the Rubik's Cube, i'm sitting here right now wondering if i will ever accomplish this puzzle in my lifetime. I could always pull off the stickers and pretend to everyone that i'd finished it. I feel it's sitting here just laughing at me, smugness in all it's shining glory. Maybe i'll just get the hammer out and show you who's boss you little !£*@$*&^$!

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