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Sex Sells. As Does Humour.

I’ve just seen two billboard adverts this week that have really made me laugh. It seems some talented individuals have come into advertising and thought “hmm, we need to be creative to sell things”. Before I get on to them I want to talk about an Edinburgh restaurant called Voujon. The very […]

A Giant Mobile Makes Me Spend My Money

I like Almondvale and McArthur Glen, the two large shopping centres about to be joined together in Livingston. I think the thing that I like the most though is the huge glass dome, the water tumbler and the air-powered mobile above it. I could sit and watch it for hours. A huge […]

Glasgow Prefers Cava & Bubbles to Real Bubbly

I saw these two street performers entertaining children of all ages, myself included, with these huge bubbles. So much better than polluting the atmosphere with bad noise. A little while later I noticed this bar that specialises in “Tapas & Cava”. No champagne here, not even going to pretend. We are […]

Naked Women Are Banned For Tall People

I was in Luton Airport biding my time until my flight back to breathable air (Scotland). Wandering around WH Smiths I noticed that the soft core porn mags, Club and Men’s World in this particular picture, are wrapped in white plastic so you can’t see the back of women in underwear. That is […]

Am I Drunk or is the Ground Slanted?

This can’t be right. I’d have noticed this before. Does no one check a simple plumb line before erecting a lamppost? Maybe it’s designed to reach the places other street lights can’t reach, like under cars? [Incidentally there are no signs of an accident or anything to cause this to happen]

London Calling And You’ll Get A 1970s Room

I’m down in London at the moment and the first thing I noticed is that it took the same time to fly from Edinburgh to “London” Luton as it did to disembark the airplane and wait 45 minutes for the bag machine to start working. The (far too) Easy Jet staff casually wandered over […]

The North to The South: We Care About You!

Not really, we were being sarcastic. A month ago, in a week when the South of England suffered under the hosepipe bans and nasty summer drought I went shopping back in Merseyside. First I went around Liverpool and saw this lovely feature (I know it is a photo from last year, my picture […]