Back home after the trip to Glasgow. The train connection time at the Dundee end perhaps 15 seconds too short to be completely relaxing. A polite guard holds the door open for us as we scurry from platform 2 to platform 4. ' Nae need to hurry' he says in a voice that implies the opposite.
Angus watches the Olympic Rugby 7's. Fast and furious. Antoine Dupont, the scrum-half, is electric and France justifiably take the gold.
Beautiful weather here on the coast. Corn Buntings in the fields and a Jack Russell nursing a Jacobs Cream Cracker in her mouth in the back garden.
Puppy has noted the presence of a hare in the courtyard. Is it worth chasing ? Her instincts say yes but experience says it'll be gone by the time she's half way down the steps. This girl is growing up and getting 'canny' very quickly. Her quivering tail hints at the inner turmoil.
We've bought a 1929 motorists guide to Scotland in a second hand bookstore on the Great Western Road. It makes entertaining reading on the train journey home.
The section on St Andrews makes me wonder whether language like this would be allowed today. I'm not sure what ' St Andrews affects the American golfer much as Stratford-on-Avon affects the American college girl' is supposed to mean but it doesn't sound very woke.
The author is on stronger ground when summing up the difference between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Puppy has evidently learned that a Jacobs Cream Cracker in the mouth is worth a hare in the bushes.
The Glasgow/Edinburgh stereotypes persist but I wonder what H.V Morton would make of today's post-industrial Clydeside.
Well done Sir Keir. At last we have a Prime Minister who isn't a national embarrassment...
I loved In Search of Scotland. It’s of its age but very insightful. I own “In Scotland Again” but never got round to reading it.
Which restaurants did you try this time?
Puppy seems to have adopted you and made your garden her own!
I assume the motoring guide was written with Americans in mind.
Coppas Girl - Although Americans might have been in mind I think the book was primarily targeted at English visitors venturing into the Northern wilderness for the first time.
Hari Om
Yes, E v. G. pretty much as described. Another analogy might be, Glasgow=Folie Bergere, Edinburgh=Gilbert and Sullivan. Both require one to look beyond the staging... YAM xx
Surely, Puppy had more than one cream cracker or did she really carry it from one place to another? Such restraint, if she did.
What a fun Sunday post. Puppy with the cracker is priceless, as is the comparison of Glasgow and Edinburgh. And I loved the photo of the Prime Minister, which popped up all over Twitter. For a guy who was supposed to be rather dull, he's making a nice first impression.
Puppy, corn bunting and Vivaldi - an excellent beginning to the day.
Nice to see Puppy this morning.
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