5 stars

I had the camera out at work again today, we are holding a golf day next month, which will feature a silent auction, for which we are accumulating items, including this signed Rangers Football Club shirt.

As a non-Rangers fan (this is NOT the same as a Celtic fan, but I've no intention of getting into that) it's an interesting time, trying to see the different perspectives. Just rereading this before posting, realised many of you might have no clue what is going on, but as a result of long standing financial mismanagement Rangers went into administration in February, and may well end up being liquidated at some point in the near future. Their punishment from the Scottish Football Association is a large fine and a 12 month transfer ban - they can't buy in any new players over 18 years old, which is basically the end of the club as we know it, even if you leave the finances to the side. Unless there is some new twist, they may well find themselves having to effectively start again, and will have to work their way back up from the 3rd division with a youth team.

You almost got a shot of Jannine, Bassey's wife (see yesterday's blip) modelling the shirt, but I missed that chance. We were educating our guests about the significance of the stars, apparently it is common in Europe to put one star on the crest/kit for every 10 national championships a team has won. Rangers have won more than any other European team, 54 to be precise since they were founded in 1872 (Celtic have just reached 43 since 1887, which shows you the dominance the two teams have in Scottish football). If Rangers do end up being reformed given the current problems, they will lose the stars. Just to even things up, a Celtic factoid - they won the European Cup in 1967, before any of the English clubs managed it, and remain the only Scottish team to have won (or even to have reached the final, which they have done twice). As I understand it the victorious 'Lisbon Lions' still hold the record for the most local team, not sure what the technical/official description is, but basically every team member was born within 30 miles of Glasgow. No-one could come close to that these days, none of the top teams could even say all their players were born on the same continent!

A lovely evening at Queens Park Camera Club, I have been on the waiting list to join since last September, so was invited along to a kind of info evening, and have had it confirmed that I will be offered a space next year, so am looking forward to learning lots. Also turned into a wee mini blipmeet, it was great to finally meet Gillipaw. Hopefully she will make it in, there are a guaranteed 15 places, and one of the folk being offered one has already turned it down, meaning numbers 1-16 are in (I'm 11), she is 17!