Monday, May 23, 2005

Beautiful country, shame about some of the people

one of thewife's holiday snaps

With thewife being on holiday for the past week, I have had to fend for myself. That would be the excuse I use for not having blogged for so long. Actually, the week seemed to rush past quickly. thewife had a nice time, but it wasn't so much a holiday for her, having two elderly women in tow, one of them in a wheelchair. Knackered on returning and couldn't even be bothered to take up the offer of dining out, so carry out it was to be.

Saturday and the end of season game another meaningless one, unless of course we were to put 7 past Dunfermline and results went against them elsewhere, in which case we may well have witnessed a mass hysteria moment at Rugby Park. Guess that'll have to wait until Elton John appears. Another beautiful sunshiny Saturday and the football was definitely a marked improvement on recent weeks. 4 - 0 at the end of the day and I can truthfully say that there were men on that park who were capable of winning a League. There are those who will scoff, but its true, the half time draw tickets were drawn by six gentlemen from the photo below.

Elsewhere a day later much drama in a period of 2 mins where joy and despair were exchanged in Motherwell and Edinburgh. Later in the evening the ugly side of Scottish sectarianism was rearing its face. We went to the King's for the usual Sunday quiz, however the place was extremely busy with a significant number of pished happy punters and a few sad ones to boot. It was noisy though and outside the street was alive with menace...ah melodrama. No it was really, windows being banged quite hard, the quiz was cancelled and within 10 minutes, the pub announced that it was closing 9.30 on a Sunday night. Apologies were issued by the manager, but it was pretty clear he knew what he was doing. Drink fuelled sectarian lunatics were giving it laldy in the main street and the forces of law and order were nowhere to be seen. We headed back to Lady El's with two bottles of wine and listened to music instead. Bugger, I was looking forward to the quiz as well. There's no quiz next week either as its a bank holiday weekend, however, there is a free gig in Ayr featuring the wonnerful Trashcan Sinatras, so we are heading there instead.

Whilst I am on the subject, I have to put a plug in here for Sons and Daughters. I got a CD from Jem at work, a compilation of Scottish bands promoting Mental Health awareness which is full of wee gems, however this band I love, most interesting stuff I have heard in a while, they sound really DURTY which I like.

Finally lets bask in past glories. Was it really 40 years ago?


The 1965 League Champions
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