Start of the long schlep south!

I am on my long awaited trip back to Portugal via stays with various relatives en route and a break with Rachel and family in France.  The car is loaded with a dinghy, oars, tent, tennis rackets etc. etc.

Last night Laura and I went to see Fran Lebowitz at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh.  I’m a huge fan of ‘Pretend it’s a City’ - and Fran did not disappoint.  Hugely funny and articulate!  I wish she could run the world! Unfortunately I couldn’t wait for book signing due to bus timetable but we’ve vowed to see her again when she visits Glasgow in April of next year.
Footnote:  Kirsty Wark was amazing as the interviewer/host in the first part of the show.  Kirsty and I started in BBC Glasgow at around the same time in the halcyon days of another of my heroes the late, great Alastair Hetherington - another genius wordsmith.  It’s safe to say Kirsty has had a much more successful broadcasting career than me!.