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Friday, November 09, 2007

We said we had tickets for Beirut. "Are you mad?" they asked No, we meant Beirut the band. We went, we saw, we loved. At times the sound went a bit awry. I guess the sound engineer is used to guitars and the like. There were moments when the feedback from the brass was sore on the ears, but overall they were magnificent. Its refreshing to see a bunch of young folks doing something as fresh and as exiciting as this. I just love the whole sound the whole ambience and young Zach Condon's voice. The Arches is an excellent venue to boot, we had a fabulous dinner in the upstairs cafe before the gig and an excellent vantage point for the show. thewife even had a personal cooling vent above her which helped enormously with her age related tropical moments. If you missed them, you can get a feel of them here.

All this and a holiday in Lanzarote in a week. Yowzah, Yowzah Yowzah!

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Gone to the dogs

Busy busy weekend, which kicked off quite nicely with the 40th Birthday bash of one Tam Dewar. Naw no that one, another one entirely as can be seen by the age. Our Sunday night quiz adversary and Monday night quiz compatriot has turned 40 and celebrated with a surprise party at Ayr Dog track and social. Never been to greyhound races before and it all looked splendid fun so I have no idea what these nutters, who I found whilst looking for directions are on about. Honestly with all the shite around in the world today these loonies find greyhound racing to be the number 1 cause for concern. Christ all the dogs looked extremely well cared for and well treated. Fuck off and get a life.

Then there's the football at 12:30 on a Saturday. I hate Setanta, they fair fuck up your sense of time. I hate getting beat by Celtic as well, particularly when your due a share of the points, however a shocking 1st half performance where we gave away goals leaves no room for complaint. Despite shite refereeing, the second half was far, far better, a more polished display saw Celtic on the back foot and struggling, with Killie the dominant side and had they tucked away the clear chances the result would have been very different. Why is it Celtic fans see the need to come to a football match and wave this shitey rag at you??

Straight after the footie its a visit to the travel agent to look for a holiday for thewife's big birthday milestone which is coming soon. I've been looking for deals on the internet and its been doing my nut in with the level of choice or non-choice and of recent the possibility of a 2 week break, leaving from Glasgow has been getting further and further away as the prices for the available dates get more and more prohibitive. Fortunately the professional knows her stuff and gets us exactly what we want at a knock down price flying from Gatwick. The price was so knock down we can afford to go to Gatwick to get it. Holiday booked ya dancer.

Today, today is a visit to the BBC's Good Food show in Glasgow for which I really must get a move on.

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