Hedgecutter

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."

Paedo

Fight, Fight, Fight, Fight!!!

Volcano

I was going to say something a bit stronger than 'fairy' but the mods would no doubt prefer me to go with Meteorology.

Chicken Tikka (Khyber Pass is a takeaway in Aberdeen )

Why do we use a decimal point whereas everyone else in Europe seems to use a 'decimal comma'?

Reservoir Dogs

Stuck at work on Deeside just now as I stupidly got a bus into work this morning but after waiting for 40mins out in the cold, the bus that eventually turned up and flew past was the dreaded Number '000' to 'Not in Service', wherever that is.

My ex-flatmate went back to uni and wasn't too impressed when I still wanted him to pay half of all the bills, including council tax. The way I saw it, why should I have to pay more (paying 75% of the council tax instead of 50% as I was when he moved in) just becuase he went back to uni? I told him right at the start when he moved in, 'basic rent plus half the bills on top'. Anyway, I said forget the council tax and just put the rent up to meet it much to his displeasure. Guy was a cnut anyway.

Personally think she looks like a wee ned - perhaps it's the full tracksuit thing that doesn't help but replace the brush with a bottle of Buckfast, replace the ice rink with a bus stop and you can picture her fitting into any shite estate.

Unless you're going to be doing one of those crazy shots up your nose like some nutters do, go for it!!!

Depends how heavy really...

When you open the lid of a yoghurt tub and it sprays yoghurt right up the front of you, or perhaps I just did it wrong.