Spotify (et al) can do one. A 15-year-old Logitech Squeezebox Touch, a scavenged hard drive from a busted laptop, 13,134 songs ripped from my CDs in lossless files, a 20-year-old Cambridge Audio A4 amp and Tannoy speakers that are so old I can't remember when I bought them. Sounds terrific, honest.

November rush hour in West George lane, Glasgow. A bit dreich you say? Aye.

It's great fun though, watching the Tory party eat itself. If you could illustrate it, it might look a little like this...

Spotted that the Good Coffee Cartel supported the Drummond Trophy road race last weekend (won by Katie Archibald's brother John, leading), so went there to buy some coffee beans by way of 'payback.' You've got to support the locals, who are supporting the locals, etc. #cycling #coffee

Little bit of context for the rioting in Norn Irn. Figures from Al-Jazeera article. #Ballymena
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

The 2025 Women's Tour of Britain was won overall by Kiwi Ally Wollaston thanks to nifty sprinting for time bonuses on the final stage. The Glasgow leg was won by Lorena Wiebes, but nobody beat Chiara Consonni's banner in the Glasgow sunshine. Yes, sun.
#veryverysuper #WomensTourofBritain #ciclismo

Never mind the strength in depth of Aussie cycling, both Giro stage winners are from Victoria. In fact, as I understand it, they're both from Melbourne. And wearing MAAP kit, designed in Melbourne. What's in the water in the Yarra?! Onya, etc.

Cleaning out dad's bike shed and recovered this 1980s Saronni-era'vintage' Del Tongo - Colnago 'borraccio.'
How the hell did we 'manage' back then? Tough plastic, tiny neck, terrible nozzles. They were rubbish! Why did it take till the 1990s to redesign these things? Hahaha.

US Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reveals new medical training protocol.

Went to see Lloyd Cole and a couple of Commotions (Blair Cowan and Neil Clark with Signy Jakobsdottir on drums) in Glasgow. A collection of songs from 40 years of work so, aye, how could it fail? It didn't. First gig I've been too where everyone was seated though which was...weirdly formal.

I know that in many ways it is utterly commonplace - birds hatch out of eggs - but it's still pretty goddam amazing. So much Eurasian Griffon vulture crammed into such a small space.
#birds #vulture #ornithology #conservation

Do visual gags count?

Dusted off the biro, found a notepad and did a bit of writing, but no (moto) riding around Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya at the recent #WSBK weekend. Ah, if only I was 48 years younger. And had talent, etc, etc.
www.yamaha-racing.com/news/blucru-...

63 (old enough to remember you writing in NME)

Live 1969 (double album on Mercury records with a terrible sleeve and even worse liner notes)

The river Clyde and paddle steamer Waverley.

It's going to hose it down in Glasgow very shortly, but here's a bit of autumn colour before the world turns grey. For no other reason except its autumn and this is about as good as it gets! The red one is some kind of Japanese maple, apparently.

A falcon for a Friday. Tula is an immature Lugger falcon (Falco jugger), part of a conservation and breeding programme called Project Lugger.
Luggers are often used as bait birds to trap bigger Saker falcons in their native habitats.
So...

Just a pic.
Looking west, it's all calm on the Clyde. Complete with the world's oldest sea-going paddle steamer, the PS Waverley, built in 1946. Not a bad Sunday morning in Glasgow.