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Thursday 31 December 2009

Hogmanay 2009

The blog below is from last Hogmanay - But has (somewhat bewilderlingly) been one of my most popular posts, having been viewed by someone every week of 2009.

Only one other has been more popular, which I shall post (in edited form) tomorrow. 


The sentiments of this post below still ring true - so Why Not?!


So, Blessings & Prayers for 2010 - from me to you. xxx


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Its Hogmanay!!!

So Happy Ne'erday when it comes...

(Don't really see the point to New Year Celebrations - never really been all that comfortable with the logic of it even as a very young child - always seems maudlin & a feeble excuse to get drunk)

But still - I'll not spoil what is for some is a fab excuse for a big party / small family gathering or whatever life brings you...

Glasgow Hogmanay 2007/8 (Runrig just after 'the bells')



Edinburgh Hogmanay 2007/8 (Fireworks across city)




Some Fab Hogmanay TV from my Childhood...
(for Salvationists - the last 30/40seconds are very funny)



Though, finally I offer up, right now, prayers for those who want or need Gods Comfort & Grace, in whatever situation or 'celebration' you find yourself the Holy Spirit & God's blanket of love will surround you & warm you. You are never alone - God's there walking beside you & me

"Lang may yer lum reek"

Saturday 26 December 2009

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - "Early Preview" Trailer





Have posted this elsewhere before..
But posting again here, for those people (my we'ans?!) who complained they couldn't find it...


Please remember folks that the actual film is still a lifetime away!? This is an...
"Early Preview" Trailer


Oh & Merry Christmas!

Monday 7 December 2009

The Cove | Take Action - Take Part!


The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in Taiji, Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening as the Taiji cove is blocked off from the public. The focus of the Social Action Campaign for The Cove is to create worldwide awareness of this annual practice as well as the dangers of eating seafood contaminated with mercury and to pressure those in power to put an end to the slaughter.
Slaughtered for Their Meat (despite the levels of mercury! & being packaged as "Whale Meat") & Captivity Capture to places like Seaworld & Dolphinariums (which is how they make their Money!!)


This Has To STOP NOW!!

Find out More at: The Cove

EDIT: Preorder DVD (out in UK January 4th 2010) : tinyurl.com/BuyTheCove

Saturday 5 December 2009

Twitter/Facebook "Christmas Party" & Guests



Send your own ElfYourself eCards





Just found this so funny, when someone sent me a similar video, that just had to create my own!!!


Apologies & Christmas Blessings to: @headphonaught , @stewartcutler, @TruckerFrank, @caldjr, @john1954moi (they don't know I created this Video! :)


(AND No... I wont show the video I was sent! {its contains sensitive material = me aged about 10!} Sorry...
But as a consolation you can see this one I created for my Kids! :)




Send your own ElfYourself eCards


Merry Christmas!! (Early I Know)


:-o

Tuesday 1 December 2009

I AM ONE MAGAZINE | CALL TO ACTION: SAVE BORDERS PREVENT BOREDOM -- A CRUCIAL PART OF BUCHANAN STREET


This is not advertorial. This is a blatant CALL TO ACTION on behalf of Border's Books, Buchanan Street, Glasgow. I was saddened by the news of administration, I was sickened to walk by and see bargain-basement 'CLOSING DOWN' signs just now.

If Border's Buchanan Street is allowed to close, Glasgow loses, in a big way. If the government can bail out the banks, they need to step in here.

Border's

Glasgow loses, here's why:

1. This store is not only a retail space, it is a prime meeting location. 1000's of people daily come through its' doors, rendezvous, buy a book or a magazine, then continue on to lunch/dinner. Every restaurateur within a 30 minute walk should take note! 

2. It has been challenging the status quo. In this dire age of complacency in retailing, Border's Buchanan Street has a passionate staff. The store is open until 10pm most days, challenging the home-by-six mentality (especially in an era where retailers complain of low sales = they're never open when working people need them).

3. Because of its innovative programmes, hours and location, the presence is a source of stability and nighttime safety in the area. If allowed to close, or turn into another 9-5 dress shop, Buchanan Street will become a dangerous ghost town for drunken brawlers every night.

 4. Border's Buchanan street has the one and ONLY international peridoicals, news and books sections in the entirety of lowland Scotland. NO other retailers offers such a wide selection.

5. Border's Buchanan Street is one of the few retail chains that aspire to act independently, and support the local community. Our annual writers' conference is one example.  They have a forum for all sorts of events, and have become prominent in hosting things that have no other home.

 Write your MSP's, and business friends. The private sector needs to step up here. Rumour has it that the Glasgow store has been consistently profitable.

 Change is ok, but if this institution turns into another useless discount clothing store or dress boutique, along with the ridiculous withdrawal of the airport rail link, Glasgow will have taken a giant step back from being a hub in Scotland to being just another run of the mill bourgeois town for weekend shoppers.

 Do something.


busy

INDEED!

Write your MSP's, and business friends. The private sector needs to step up here. Rumour has it that the Glasgow store has been consistently profitable.

Change is ok, but if this institution turns into another useless discount clothing store or dress boutique, along with the ridiculous withdrawal of the airport rail link, Glasgow will have taken a giant step back from being a hub in Scotland to being just another run of the mill bourgeois town for weekend shoppers.

Do something!!

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