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Now see the Blue Street signs - Belmont Street has one as well, maybe this could be one of these projects where HG could find the streets in blue? Anyone know where, why, when or how the blue signs started?

I can tell you all had sleepless night thinking this through.

The reason why Belgian is 2nd recorded nationality after British?

It's a result of Belgian being next to British on the pull down menu used when prison officers logged in new inmates and so was wrongly entered onto their database.

And don't forget Josef - the average number of legs for humans isn't two.

Don't have percentages - anyway the answer is Belgian. So next question in this two-part, fun filled weekend teaser, why?

Scottish would be a bit obvious wouldn't it, but no it's not Scottish.

I'll give the answer tomorrow.

If you mean evidence, what proof do I have - then's it's from talking to someone who knows.

Anyway, you're getting warm but missing something.

A two-parter random question.

a) Which nationality is recorded as the second most common within the prisoner population in Scotland? A clue - British is number 1.


I'll come back with the second question once there's been a few wrong guesses

Polarising filters - work really well on colourful glossy paint too.

And how come the Kiwis pronounce it OtAhgo when it should of course be OtAygo.

I found this anonymous article from the USA deeply moving--- I hope you do, too. As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a...graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the back c...

nDSC_0034 by trendysouthside, on Flickr


nDSC_0045 by trendysouthside, on Flickr

tidying my flickr files and found this from last year.


Dangers of being a photogapher by trendysouthside, on Flickr

I was at the delightful NK as well from 1978till I left 5th year in 1982.

Have you seen Oban Drive recently - after years of being a gap site, it's all full of new flats.

Now makes sense now why the hits on this photo had been growing on my photostream - thank you Dex.