Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Prufrock]

Wrote to Clive James a couple of weeks ago. Got a response from his PA today saying that he appreciated my letter but due to his ill-health is no longer well enough to respond personally. Doesn't sound good

[bobo the clown]

Wrote to Clive James a couple of weeks ago. Got a response from his PA today saying that he appreciated my letter but due to his ill-health is no longer well enough to respond personally. Doesn't sound good

He's been predicting his own demise for a while. I hope he hasn't read his horoscope in the Sun today.

He'll be missed ... a great wit and racontuer.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I can't escape the feeling that I'm being slowly phased out at work.

On the one side it's understandable as I'm leaving in Jan, and maybe I should even be happy as it allows me more time to come up with ideas or doss.

It's annoying however as it's got to the point where I'm not being invited or even aware of meetings which, given i'm still here for the next seven weeks, I feel I should be at. And it's not like I'm leaving the company, either.

Hmmm.

De-emphasis happens to all of us in time, alas.

[Bruce Rioja]

Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about driving across the Forth Bridge only to notice that they're building a new one. When did that come about? Further, what's wrong with the existing two? I now fully expect to be labelled an 'ignorant Guffy' by our Caledonian contributors.

[thebish]

Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about driving across the Forth Bridge only to notice that they're building a new one.

is it gonna be called the fifth bridge?

[Little Green Man]

Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about driving across the Forth Bridge only to notice that they're building a new one. When did that come about? Further, what's wrong with the existing two? I now fully expect to be labelled an 'ignorant Guffy' by our Caledonian contributors.

Fecking ignorant guffy. There's nothing wrong with the properly-built rail bridge however the jerry-built road bridge is falling to bits already (the cables are slowly snapping) so they're building a new one. Unfortunately they've decided to call it something like St Margaret's Crossing and not my preferred option of Salmond's Leap.

[Bruce Rioja]

Feckin

Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about driving across the Forth Bridge only to notice that they're building a new one. When did that come about? Further, what's wrong with the existing two? I now fully expect to be labelled an 'ignorant Guffy' by our Caledonian contributors.

Fecking ignorant guffy. There's nothing wrong with the properly-built rail bridge however the jerry-built road bridge is falling to bits already (the cables are slowly snapping) so they're building a new one. Unfortunately they've decided to call it something like St Margaret's Crossing and not my preferred option of Salmond's Leap.

Cheers. The blokes that operate those tower cranes on the tops of the supports they've erected must have bollocks of steel. I felt uneasy, to say the least, just looking at them.

[Little Green Man]

Feckin

Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about driving across the Forth Bridge only to notice that they're building a new one. When did that come about? Further, what's wrong with the existing two? I now fully expect to be labelled an 'ignorant Guffy' by our Caledonian contributors.

Fecking ignorant guffy. There's nothing wrong with the properly-built rail bridge however the jerry-built road bridge is falling to bits already (the cables are slowly snapping) so they're building a new one. Unfortunately they've decided to call it something like St Margaret's Crossing and not my preferred option of Salmond's Leap.

Cheers. The blokes that operate those tower cranes on the tops of the supports they've erected must have bollocks of steel. I felt uneasy, to say the least, just looking at them.

73 people died building the rail bridge. Hopefully there'll be none for the Third of Forth. (It's actually to be called the The Queensferry Crossing - the queen was Margaret - who established the first ferry.)

[Montreal Wanderer]

Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about driving across the Forth Bridge only to notice that they're building a new one. When did that come about? Further, what's wrong with the existing two? I now fully expect to be labelled an 'ignorant Guffy' by our Caledonian contributors.

Fecking ignorant guffy. There's nothing wrong with the properly-built rail bridge however the jerry-built road bridge is falling to bits already (the cables are slowly snapping) so they're building a new one. Unfortunately they've decided to call it something like St Margaret's Crossing and not my preferred option of Salmond's Leap.

St. Margaret was Scotland's only royal saint. Oddly she was the daughter of an exiled Saxon (Wessex) royal prince and born in Hungary - so much for Celtic bloodlines.

[William the White]

Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about driving across the Forth Bridge only to notice that they're building a new one. When did that come about? Further, what's wrong with the existing two? I now fully expect to be labelled an 'ignorant Guffy' by our Caledonian contributors.

Fecking ignorant guffy. There's nothing wrong with the properly-built rail bridge however the jerry-built road bridge is falling to bits already (the cables are slowly snapping) so they're building a new one. Unfortunately they've decided to call it something like St Margaret's Crossing and not my preferred option of Salmond's Leap.

St. Margaret was Scotland's only royal saint. Oddly she was the daughter of an exiled Saxon (Wessex) royal prince and born in Hungary - so much for Celtic bloodlines.

What miracles did she perform to make her a Saint?

[bobo the clown]

Canonised in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity plus her role as wife of Malcolm in Macbeth.

[William the White]

Canonised in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity plus her role as wife of Malcolm in Macbeth.

Not even one miracle??? Not even a sunny day in Aberdeen?

These Scots aristocrats got away with murder!

[Montreal Wanderer]

Canonised in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity plus her role as wife of Malcolm in Macbeth.

Not even one miracle??? Not even a sunny day in Aberdeen?

These Scots aristocrats got away with murder!

Well, she wasn't Scots as I pointed out. I presume Bobo knows more about canonization that I do - I guess miracles are a more modern requirement.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Wrote to Clive James a couple of weeks ago. Got a response from his PA today saying that he appreciated my letter but due to his ill-health is no longer well enough to respond personally. Doesn't sound good

What did you write about?

I have similar concerns that I'm never going to get the Brian Sewell TV interview that I want...

[William the White]

Canonised in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity plus her role as wife of Malcolm in Macbeth.

Not even one miracle??? Not even a sunny day in Aberdeen?

These Scots aristocrats got away with murder!

Well, she wasn't Scots as I pointed out. I presume Bobo knows more about canonization that I do - I guess miracles are a more modern requirement.

I thought you said she was a Royal Princess in Scotland. Whatever her genealogy that makes her a Scots aristocrat in my book!

[Montreal Wanderer]

Canonised in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity plus her role as wife of Malcolm in Macbeth.

Not even one miracle??? Not even a sunny day in Aberdeen?

These Scots aristocrats got away with murder!

Well, she wasn't Scots as I pointed out. I presume Bobo knows more about canonization that I do - I guess miracles are a more modern requirement.

I thought you said she was a Royal Princess in Scotland. Whatever her genealogy that makes her a Scots aristocrat in my book!

She was a Queen actually (married Malcolm III Canmore of Macbeth fame), but your logic would make George I English...

[William the White]

Canonised in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity plus her role as wife of Malcolm in Macbeth.

Not even one miracle??? Not even a sunny day in Aberdeen?

These Scots aristocrats got away with murder!

Well, she wasn't Scots as I pointed out. I presume Bobo knows more about canonization that I do - I guess miracles are a more modern requirement.

I thought you said she was a Royal Princess in Scotland. Whatever her genealogy that makes her a Scots aristocrat in my book!

She was a Queen actually (married Malcolm III Canmore of Macbeth fame), but your logic would make George I English...

English aristocrat - yes...

[Bruce Rioja]

Canonised in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity plus her role as wife of Malcolm in Macbeth.

Not even one miracle??? Not even a sunny day in Aberdeen?

These Scots aristocrats got away with murder!

Well, she wasn't Scots as I pointed out. I presume Bobo knows more about canonization that I do - I guess miracles are a more modern requirement.

I thought you said she was a Royal Princess in Scotland. Whatever her genealogy that makes her a Scots aristocrat in my book!

She was a Queen actually (married Malcolm III Canmore of Macbeth fame), but your logic would make George I English...

Don't you call yourself Canadian?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Not even one miracle??? Not even a sunny day in Aberdeen?

These Scots aristocrats got away with murder!

Well, she wasn't Scots as I pointed out. I presume Bobo knows more about canonization that I do - I guess miracles are a more modern requirement.

I thought you said she was a Royal Princess in Scotland. Whatever her genealogy that makes her a Scots aristocrat in my book!

She was a Queen actually (married Malcolm III Canmore of Macbeth fame), but your logic would make George I English...

Don't you call yourself Canadian?

Dual citizen.

[Bruce Rioja]

As, by the looks of it, were the aforementioned, no?