M8 - Lockerbie - X-Facor and all

Tuesday morning and having a duvet day!!! - (just as well, after three totally baltic and freezing mornings, with nice days, we are in the midst of a dreich wet day) to myself before the rest of the week kicks off, between the Mercat bar and heading for Risley I will be busy enough. Finished off on Saturday while watching the X Factor and have to say that I am seriously considering giving it a miss after the follow up show on Sunday. Cheryl Cole was shocking, might well be that she is nice to look at but she cannot sing, mimed to a musical background, or so it appeared to me. How can she possibly sit there in judgement of young artists who can actually sing. Louis Walsh sits there with his new "plastic face" and actually defends that lunatic "Wagner", who is ten times worse that even "Jedward" were - to me the programme has no credibility. It is even worse that Strictly Come Dancing " where poor Ann Whitticome is still in the show, I would hope that next week she is voted off, just for her own sake. last night Charlotte Church, who can sing, admitted that she had made ten plus calls to the show to support her ex - the orange coloured rugby bloke - whose name escapes me -(Gavin Henson) he should be playing rugby and forgetting about boosting his ego with all these TV appearances.

Found these photos on the camera, the "fire Rescue" not sure what was going on there but the firemen had taken the bloke on the ladders out the first floor flat at Morningside Station and were also lowering something else down to the ground on a rope - I need to get the McEwans Bus people to wash the bus windows more often so I can get better pictures.

The two of the motorway were taken from the 8th Floor of the Glasgow City Hilton hotel last week when we were at the SLTA News Awards, just thought that the shots of the M8 as it approaches the Kingston Bridge were interesting, different pics when the road is busy.

Managed to squeeze in a couple of hospital appointments yesterday - must say thanks to all the staff and Doctors / consultants I saw, they were really good - and very helpful - do not think I will see my name in the Evening news for a wee while yet.

I accidentally deleted one of the pics, that is why they are out of sequence.

For lovers of "U Tube", I would suggest that you have a look at a couple of small videos - under "Lockerbie Town Hall" which were taken by a specialist building examiner,(and his camera man) on ropes, and which show that the top of the tower is literally ready to fall off in the next gale and land slap bang in the middle of the main road. My toes were actually curling as I watched it. The media has got wind of it as it was leaked to the press and there is now a bit of a stushie going on. Do not think that they can claim the damage was caused by the Lockerbie bomb disaster and seek funding from that pot. If they need to close off the main road it will cause chaos.

Need to emerge from this hidey hole in due course, work to do and then I have the Laird O'Cockpen RA 500 installation tonight at Bonnyrigg.