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
Husband said no more cats, but then brings wife a kitten he saved from a
raging road: 'I don't understand how anyone would dump a kitten like that'
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Stories like these break our hearts and stitch them back together in one
go. It's always gut-wrenching to hear of kittens being abandoned -
especially in...
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