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'Really light' Ribena. No added preservatives, no artificial colours, no taste.

Fair do's. Thinking about it a bit more, I think it was a fair while back and we got stopped when we were passing by (out for dinner) and they pretty much said 'it's no longer Kuri, we've taken it over and it's now better and cheaper! Come and try!'. Turns out we bought what we normally would have in Kuri and ended up spending far more than we would have really. I think that's where my problem lies.

Only been there once and my first memory that springs to mind is getting ripped off. That's the place that used to be Kuri, right?

The Nazma Tandoori on Bridge St (close to the train station) always seems to get good reviews. I was there once and it was all pictures of Alex Salmond shaking hands with the chef on the wall and the likes but wasn't anything particularly special IMO. I was just as impressed with the Bollywood on Union Street - thought the name sounded pretty cheap but it was good and excellent value. 'Cinnamon' at the south end of Union Street is meant to be pretty good too, although I've never been in.

I saw one of those trolleys on the beach below St Andrews Castle the other week - I read the sign on the front and though 'obviously so'.

Suppose he could ask the air company to change it to manchester when he checks it in, incurring a massive debt in fees knowing most air companies these days even though all it takes is someone to stick a manchester sticker on it instead.

It is indeed the Icelandair one - so there's a good chance he can just get off at Manchester even though he's got a ticket for Glasgow? Assuming so, sweet Cheers.

Why does it cost £95,000 for someone to design a logo for the Glasgow Commonwealth games? Also noticed the London 'Lisa Simpson Giving Head' Olympics logo cost £400,000 too. What do the designers do that could possibly cost that amount?

Just found out that my flight from Reykjavik to Glasgow next week has a 'service stop' at Manchester of all places – aye, let’s fly from Iceland to Glasgow but fly past Glasgow to get to Manchester and then take them all back to Glasgow??? Can anyone shed some light on this crazy world? What's worse is one guy I'm travelling with actually wants to go to Manchester that night once we get back and was planning on getting a train down to Manchester from Glasgow, even though we'll be stopping there earlier that day. Don't imagine they'll let him off and set up a passport immigrations desk just for him.

Anyone know what a cash passport is?

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But surely the shortarses can get out of the emergency exits quicker than freaks like you blocking up the whole doorway while you stoop and clog the whole thing up?

Cartoonies - blast from the past

I like the fact it has to say you may end your journey at any intermediate station along the route of travel. I can't quite imagine having a ticket from Aberdeen to Edinburgh, wanting to get off at Kirkcaldy but the wifey at the doors saying "this is an Edinburgh ticket, get back on that train to haymarket and buy another ticket to come back here again".

Tea with milk and three sugars. It's Friday morning after all - thought I'd treat one's self to a dose of wake up juice.

Off the Scotrail website terms and conditions: Anytime Day Single: BREAK OF JOURNEY - You may start, break and resume, or end your journey at any intermediate station along the route of travel. So from that, I'd gather yes, although it used to be the case you could only break a return journey (I think). Edit to say: It'll need to all be on the same day

My other half gets up (i.e. wakes me up) at 6:30am and I get up for work every morning even when I went out for a couple of drinks on Tuesday night which turned into a 2am sesh, got home for 3:30am by the time we found everyone and I'd had a takeway and still did the normal Groundhog routine, going out for the Scotland game last night too. So shut up and go to art school.

Ah, the Kingdom of Fife. I never knew things were so tough for you guys.

We've got a machine up the stairs that does those 'Mars Swirls Chocochinos' - pure sugar with a bit of water and flavouring. Lovely stuff and good wake up juice.

Seems a bit odd having a government minister in charge of education (of all things) that's never had any experience in the wonderful world of education since they were at school themselves.

There's a few cases closer to home up in northwest Scotland but not sure how 'famous' they'd have to be for you. I'd imagine it would be the case study of the layers themselves rather than the source volanoes (which again, are Icelandic). You could try this one which is fairly recent. Most uni's should subscribe to the Journal of Quaternary Science if they have a Geography Dept. Ranner, P. H., Allen, J. R. M. & Huntley, B. (2005). A new early Holocene cryptotephra from northwest Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 20, 201–208.

Do government ministers need prerequisites to become minister of a particular department? For example, (I think) Mike Weir jumped from being minister of Culture to minister of Education but can any old person get elected, become an MP, get popular within a party, try their hand at leading the Department of Culture and then take on the education of the nations children because the Education Minister post was going within that party in Holyrood?

It's always the first year's fault isn't it?

Folk finally realised that is is just a type of flu, not some plague. I'm sure the Students-Returning-From-Summer Flu affects far more but the news never get too excited about that one. Just imagine it: "...Reports indicate that a 100th student here on campus has been diagnosed with a cold. David Henderson, Reporting Scotland, live from Strathclyde University."

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