I can't. You shouldn't. I don't.
And Scotland are there for the first time since 1998.

I like Wildlife (I especially like the idea that a pound's enough to allow you to 'hang around til Monday') but Wings finest moments are nearly all on Band On The Run, Dave, though I'll give you that there's a couple on Red Rose Speedway too.

The mainstream media are a disgrace and journalism should hang it's head in abject shame but that doesn't mean I have to vote for the reheated one nation conservatism that is all the Labour party offer now.
I won't vote for them, absolutely sure in the knowledge that my vote won't help Reform.

Black, Johnny, everything's black.

That's what's good about them. Russian roulette without blowing your daft head off.
You know that coffee flavoured one would have been the chamber with the shell in it.😀

A friend, a cop, died of this after telling his wife he didn't feel too good and going to his bed.
In his 50s at the time and fit, a sailor and a once serious climber, with a flat in Chamonix, he was a member of a mountain rescue team for years.
Please take the 5 minutes Ms Barker's asking for

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

Why it's almost as if the Culture Media and Sport minister, emerging yesterday from what seems to have been solitary confinement since the election, just to tell us how much joy gambling brings, is completely useless.

One good thing about a Scottish general election as opposed to the British one, is that we don't have to put up with the usual article from that old reactionary, Maureen Lipman, about how she always votes Labour but can't bring herself to do it 'this time'. Small mercies.

Ah, Chris. You brought to mind my one appearance in Mojo and my short 'review' of Instant Karma in the Mojo readers poll for the 100 best singles of all time. December 1997 issue.😃

Boubacar Traoré & Ali Farka Touré - Duna Ma Yelema YouTube video by NoBorders Campos

Boubacar Traoré - Ali Farka Touré 'Duna Ma Yelema'
As well as the brilliant music here, what about that beautiful light?

Jealous, Ewan. Sounds a terrific day!
We were saving a fish supper for the very end, driving back to the fish works on the Largs front but you raise a point of discussion for us.😃

Do take it easy. There's no rush.
A Skye man tells an American he'll do a job the following day.
The American says ' Ah, mañana.'
The Skye man says, 'What's that?'
The American says 'It's saying a job can wait til the next day.'
Skye Man says 'Ah, see we've not got a word with that sense of urgency'

Muchas Graçias, Maureen. We'll just time it for the good weather and fit it round all the other things we have to do.We don't need to be in too much of a hurry, though at our age we can't mess about too much either.😂

We're doing it stage by stage. Driving to the end point, getting the bus on to the last place where we left off and then walking back to where we left the car. The last day will be leaving the car at Wemyss Bay and walking back to it from my hometown,Largs but a good few sections until we're there.😃

I know he's not well regarded at present but Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' is brilliant.
The economy of it. What's not said but must be discerned and finally, the complex humanity of it.

It was lovely, Maureen. The tide was going out as we walked too, so we were able to walk along the beach almost right into Girvan after we came off the hill.

Detail from an ordnance survey map of south Ayrshire showing the Ayrshire Coastal Path route from the village of Lendalfoot, north to the town of Gorvan. Taken from the Ayrshire Coastal Path guidebook.

A view of Ailsa Craig 8.5 miles out to sea from the coast at this point. The photo was taken as we began to climb Pinbain Hill

A photo of a rock covered in yellow lichen with a spray of thrift seapink growing from a fissure in the rock

A photo of a fishing boat up on stocks in Girvan Harbour. The boats hull is blue on the top half and red on the bottom half a white stripe separating these colours. The wheelhouse is orange and at the rear of the boat there is a tangle of machinery and rope. An orange mechanical 'diggers' arm hangs over the stern of the boat. There is a deal of rust round the stern.

Ayrshire Coastal Path. 3. Lendalfoot to Girvan. Beautiful weather and there are worse places for lunch than the braes of Pinbain Hill, looking out at Ailsa Craig and Ireland beyond it. A wheen of oystercatchers, some gannets, terns and a beautiful little gang of turnstones with bright orange legs.

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'Ah you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did ...tricks for you'
The Botanic Gardens in Glasgow's west end this morning.
See, this kind of thing is exactly why I don't like to leave the southside.🫤

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@mickeyundertone.bsky.social played it the other week too, Mairi. Lee 'Scratch' Perry produced. Great record.

Eyal Weizman - and for Lemkin and the concept of genocide mentioned in the post, read Philippe Sand's brilliant 'East West Street'.

Gutted to hear of Andy Kershaw's passing. A memorable broadcast journalist for #BBCRadio4's #FromOurOwnCorrespondent, the #TodayProgramme & #TheWorldTonight, Andy reported from the 1994 #Rwanda genocide, the #Angola civil war in 1996, #SierraLeone in 2001 and repeatedly from #Haiti.

Your very welcome, Angela. The originallyreleased version with a full band is just beautiful too.

I absolutely agree. A company that can hold it's head up anywhere.

René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War | Acoustic Version YouTube video by Assaf Kintzer

Paul Simon singing an acoustic version of his, 'René and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War'
More a tribute to the doowop music that Simon loves than to the Magrittes, who never did emigrate to America, the song remains beautiful, elegiac.

God knows what that final comma is meant to be doing. I certainly don't.

You've got to be joking. All three have the same problem as Starmer. Belief free, professional politicians, none of whom could articulate a clear left of centre philosophy if their lives depended on it.
(and I'm talking about left of the present centre, not actual left wing ,belief.)

He had his difficulties obviously, which sadly caused suffering to others too, but he was a great DJ and an early promoter of 'world' music in the U.K.
He was a pretty good journalist too and a comment by him turned me on to Richard Kapuscinski's journalism for which I'm thankful. So yep, R.I.P.