Bottom left is leaves in a nearby garden, top left shows some browning of plants in our garden, while the pics on the right are the last blooms of summer from Anne's garden...
Summer for me starts on 1 May and lasts till 31 August, Autumn is from 1 September to 31 October, Winter is from 1 November to 31 January and Spring is from 1 February to 30 April...
I just wish someone would clarify those dates with the climate in Scotland...
In the evening I laze around, catching an episode of "Corrie" and, later on, the second part of the three part detective story "Messiah" which we started watching last night...
It stars our good, good, personal friend Ken Stott - you'll recall he shared a table with us at the Shore Bar a few weeks back (although we didn't actually speak to him or his lovely companion, other than to say "yes, these seats are free"...)
It seems my recent obsession with Roy Wood and his connections continues...I load a few albums into the jukebox...
The frankly (mostly) weird "ELO 1", the slightly less weird "ELO 2", "Eldorado", "Face the Music", "A New World Record" and "Out of the Blue", all by ELO and each becoming more commercial as the band moves further away from Roy Wood's original vision....
Then Wizzard's two albums, firstly, "Wizzard's Brew", with it's terrible production (I'd love someone to get hold of the original 48 track masters of this and mix it properly, you know, as if it wasn't being played in the room next door and you were hearing through a particularly thick wall)...and then the pastiche-laden "Eddy and the Falcons"...
The day is rounded off with Scotsport SPL, the quite dreadful football programme which is unfortunately the only place on terrestrial TV where the action from the weekend can be viewed...
The programme lasts for 75 minutes. Rangers and Celtic games get around 10 minutes each (or 15 minutes for a clash between those two), while pish takes up a further 50 minutes and all the other games get around 3 minutes each - and, to make matters worse, it's presented by three people of whom at least two know nothing at all about football...
It has much to learn from BBC's Match of the Day...
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I really feel strongly about the pish that is the Scotsport SPL program. You're right it's presented by idiots and on at a late hour when i frankly can't be arsed watching anything even the mighty Jambos!
We should write to Glasgow TV to let them know how we feel.
Please go to www.offthetelly.co.uk/reviews/2004/scotsport.htm
Nice take on Scotsport SPL Stu - I agree with every word...after all, what's wrong with just showing the highlights, a 30 second interview with each manager or a player, a couple of minutes of analysis and then move on...oh wait, sorry, that'd be Match of the Day...
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