Is that where the zoo gets the name from? I assumed it was something to do with the family that own it or something! Feeling a might daft now. I only assumed slag heaps as on the sides of them you can see from the road dark coloured stone where the foliage has slid away.
Not far along the road from Five Sisters zoo in West Lothian today I saw 5 huge hills of unnaturally pointed shape. Not perfect pyramids like the ones at Livingston, but definitely too large and sharp to be natural. What are they? My best guess was old slag heaps long since grown over, but it's purely a guess.
I think that's partly down to the no fans / online streaming thing. Usually you would expect a big crowd for these things to cheer the team on. Hard to get excited when it's a tv show, and due to the quality on the pitch it's a shite tv show.
More of this shite today.
"I sent you this yesterday, it's an emergency and you haven't actioned it".
You didn't send me it.
"OK I've sent it now"
That is not an emergency. It is not even worth my attention.
"OK thanks"
I've very recently started telling people in a half delicate, half condescending way that their urgent queries aren't urgent at all. I've also started pointing out when people email me doublers in a passive aggressive way like "per my previous, you will find etc". I've also very recently started telling people I'm not particularly interested in their work. "Oh, I really need this looked at urgently" - "no, I can't". Bliss.
I had gone to Berwick away early that season in hope that this was going to be a title challenging season. The long trip home after a hopeless display and 3-0 defeat gave plenty of time to reflect that it may be a long stay in the bottom league. Didn't put a decent team together until about 08.
The teams of the past are far better than the current gang. They could score goals and could pass to a teammate successfully. Watching this lot has been like watching Sunday morning amateurs.
That Thistle game was the one they finished 4th and got into the playoffs and were promoted. Had they not won, they'd have finished 5th and stayed down, Falkirk style.
That team, unlike this team, scored plenty and conceded plenty.
The days of having the likes of Murray, Turner, Agnew, Gilhaney, Geggan, Guido, Clark, Boyle, Carcary et al seem a long time ago now.
I came on board at the Paul Martin relegation season, who was quickly followed by Gerry McCabe. This team is at least as bad as those, and still may yet be relegated.