Glasgow Web Design, Video and Owning Your Own Death Star
Just some of the topics that I’ve covered with various people in the last week.
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The search is over, we found the impossible. We found Allan’s replacement. More news to follow as we plan the grand unveiling in true footballing stylee.
I’d like to share a poem that was read to me last night by, of all people, a polis. He’s was saying a lot of good stuff last night while speaking at the Govanhill Housing Association’s AGM. It stayed with me all night and today.
Scotland
It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet,
when larks rose on long thin strings of singing
and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels.
Greenness entered the body. The grasses
shivered with presences, and sunlight
stayed like a halo on hair and heather and hills.
Walking into town, I saw, in a radiant raincoat,
the woman from the fish-shop. ‘What a day it is!’
cried I, like a sunstruck madman.
And what did she have to say for it?
Her brow grew bleak, her ancestors raged in their graves
as she spoke with their ancient misery:
‘We’ll pay for it, we’ll pay for it, we’ll pay for it.’
by Alastair Reid.
I know that woman, met her husband too.
The polis was very interesting and had some great points. It wasn’t anything new to me, I had heard a great deal on my Common Purpose course last year, but he was a very intelligent speaker, clearly passionate about his job and determined to make a difference. Go on.
He asked everyone, before they go to bed, to write down three things during that day that made them happy. Three things, no matter how small, as lang as they made you happy. He said that if you did that in a week you’d be a happier person. I am already happy but I might just try it anyway.
Tonight I have new ‘Lost’ and new ‘House’. I’m as giddy as a fat kid round cake!
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the polis AND poetry? have i not warned you about this? and another thing - “lost”? get a fvcking life, boy!
anyway: hunz for finishing outside the TOP 6 this season? relegation fears for mcleish’s orc army? weeping and gnashing of brows on the broomloan road! what fun…. discuss.
chinny chin chin…. see you for budvar, bulmers & lady-boy videos on the 10th?
bring solpadine - i’m bringing the wife.
nick xx