Dan Steele

Spoiled here as an Arbroath fish van visits regularly. Good to see our local fishmonger is back up and running, so had haddock last night and salmon with roasted vegetables tonight including Eassie asparagus. Wine was average but finished now. Rerr.

On the plus side, you always win the 'write your name in the snow' competition.

That's a poor show from an MP. Certainly looks like Cumming is back to his pre-road trip role.

That's what they should use in their adverts. What's with this 7,927 mint leaves, ffs?

Absolutely, but in a way you've really answered your own question. It was just a point about the choice of words.

A lot has been done in a less than satisfactory way. The whole care home situation needs some serious looking at. HC-One, run by private equity, paid out £48.5 million in dividends over 2 years. They've posted a loss every year bar 1 since 2011. Their Skye home is being 'overseen' by the NHS. If the SNP want a radical idea to underpin the next elections they can put this at the heart of their manifesto. Get rid of privately run care homes (they get government money as there is a threshold on folks savings whereby Councils 'top up') and bring them under NHS control. Have a National Care Service running alongside the NHS and make it truly from cradle to grave. (This 'oldies being punted' stuff doesn't help discussion, imo)

Do you ave a leecence for your clique?

They didn't get where they are today by not being able to summarise.

Two nuns were cycling along the side streets and alleys of the old town to avoid rush hour traffic. "I've never come this way before" said one. "Oh that'll be the cobbles" said the other.

Jeez, Dave, just have Corn Flakes tomorrow morning.

It's not his physical health that worries me...

As if this self-serving, egotistical, Eton educated millionaire cares about anybody not from his "gang".

Where do you stand on smoking breaks at work? In our place some people can easily spend an hour a day in the smoking shelter letting others cover for them.

Well, you say that, but you've no idea the hassle I've had to put up with from Mrs SL's family. And it was only the once.

Fairly sure there will be a dedicated council team in Falkirk to deal with this sort of thing already.

OK, own up, who nicked the 'n' from Shandon Par's post?

Oh, Amelia, that's a recipe for disaster.

Isn't Pennington part of Scotland Matters and Better Together? Being that close to Tories he wouldn't know about principles.

I read Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison last month. Written in 1952, its depiction of a politicised African American in New York and is well worth reading. The riot and looting section resonates with current events in US.

It's a Mixuflavours special, I think.

Wouldn't be surprised to find out that "unknown" and "other" numbers were part of the continuing erasure from American history of Native Americans. Ironic given Minnesota comes from a Dakota Sioux word.

Oh oh, that's suspicious. I'd be checking the brakes regularly, Shandon. Especially if Mrs Par has decided to learn Polish during lockdown.

Clearly time to start a window cleaner Wednesday. 8pm, bang a bucket and wave a chamois.