A rather blokey read for me last night: Espedair Street by Iain Banks. This is the funny and sad tale of a geeky boy's rise to 70s rock stardom with ELP-style stage excesses, followed by his inevitable fall. The novel features lots of Glasgow/West of Scotland humour and local colour - look out for the beer-drinking dog. I did think, however, that the two girls in 1973 Paisley at the start would have said "def-in-ATE-ly" instead of "definItly" and I was crushed when the protagonist says that he had never heard of the Glasgow to Edinburgh slow train (THE way to travel across country, via Shotts!)
Day 57; Book 55
Goats Get Outshined By Farm Cat After Farmer Tries to See Which One of the
Kids Has the "Shared Brain Cell" of the Day, Goes Viral
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And to think we thought cats were the ones sharing one brain cell—seems
more like they have at least TWO.
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