Mr Blobby
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More snow on the way. M8 diversions in place for 10 weeks. My M9/M876/M80 diversionary alternative route to Glasgow closed last week and I haven't even got the energy to write today.
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The Splendid Torch
Oh the joys of being an editor. My Megabytes allocation is so small now on Pie & Bovril that if I want to post another image on here, I'll have to delete one first. So I'll just have to use pictures sparingly from now on or delete everything I ever posted on the Edinburgh City threads. The reason being of course is that the free digital Edinburgh City Fanzine (We give away the printed version at matches too if anybody asks for them) takes up so much megabytes. There's a simple reason for that. The photographers who have been so kind in giving us their permission to use their photographs in the fanzine have been sending in some very high quality images. Anything from 1MB to 7 or 8 MB and better than anything you can download from Google or screen grabs. This new digital age is truly astonishing and the work people put in, some of them volunteers, should be acknowledged for their attention to detail. As George Bernard Shaw once wrote in the Splendid Torch:
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
Now that's something I'd like written on my P & B gravestone if I ever get banned from here for posting content that others disapprove of for whatever reason. lOQ (Laughing out quietly)
Source: http://www.elise.com/quotes/george_bernard_shaw_-_a_splendid_torch
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Since I'm up late and at a loose end before I leave for work at 6:30am this morning, as I do every weekday morning. (Except for 2 days off at Xmas and Easter. We don't get the other Bank Holidays and I never take any annual leave although I have the luxury of having Saturdays off after I do my early morning run in the capital. And of course I get Sundays off. Some things are still sacred.), I thought I'd write something about myself in case anyone drops by and wonders who the hell I am.
I used to post on P & B many moons ago when I followed Gretna FC from 2006 onwards until their demise. Travelling all over the country following them and even for a while in the East of Scotland league as Gretna 2008. Originally I was a Rangers fan when I was in primary school. Listened to them on the radio in the European Cup ect. Derek Johnston was 16 years old I think, when I became infatuated with the Teddy bears. Then it all changed. My brother was a Hearts fan and so after I went to secondary school I wanted to emulate him. Now I was a hearts fan through and through. The good thing was that I could actually go to Hearts' games, living in Edinburgh and all. I just made more sense. And if you turned up at half time, they opened the big gates and you got in for free, so that's what I did.
Then Ferranti Thistle came along. I always used to look out for them in the Scottish Cup. There was a romance about the Ferranti name and they had a factory near our village. (Incidentally I worked there for a week on work experience) So I had dual supportership. Hearts and Ferranti Thistle right up to and after Ferranti's metamorphosis in to Meadowbank Thistle. My departure for the bright lights of London in the early eighties, said goodbye Hearts and Meadowbank and hello to adventure and making my fortune in the hustle and bustle of hard graft and tears.
A family illness in 2004 brought me back home to dear Auld Reekie and I nurtured and cared for them til their dying day. I was nice to be home but my beloved Meadowbank Thitsle was gone. The lowly depths of Scottish football never reached London in pre Pie and Bovril days.
And so it was that we picked up from where we left off, my new English wife and I, we followed the romance of Gretna FC. Before the recession of 2008, in 2006, the nasty bigwigs at Edinburgh council decided to sell off Meadowbank for housing. The locals revolted and with a little help from god above the bigwigs were ousted from power and the stock market crashed putting paid to the price of land and all the builders went bust, or nearly bust but just enough to kill off any stupid ideas of knocking down our Alma Mater. (Meadownbank, silly)
So I got involved with that and that's how I got introduced to Edinburgh City and the Meadowbank revolution but it wasn't until this season that I started going to the games although I did attend some Edinburgh City games in the EOS in 2006/07 for research purposes. (Meadowbank Reunion 2007)
What have you been doing then since 2006 and 2016? I can hear you ask. Shock spoiler here. Look any now if you don't want to know.
SpoilerIn fact I'll have to postpone the disclosure as the turtle is poking his head out of the shell and if I don't go now there'll be a bigger disaster on here since Gunter went in to self exile. Yes I know about that. Funny life Pie and Bovril, isn't it? Poke me if I forget to finish my story on here but I really must go now. Duty calls and I'd like to make a cup of coffee. Isn't it amazing how you can write better at 5:30am in the morning and yet ask me to say something coherent in the light of day, I dumbstruck like a rabbit caught in the head lights of a juggernaut. Bye!
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