Jeanette

Concert Square is a good carpark. 24 hours and after 6pm it's £1.50 which I presume is until 8am. If it's the Sunday day-time that you're down a lot of the time you can park on the street for free, and definitely park on the street from 6pm-8am for free.

Anyone driven from Aberdeen to Stranraer?

How long does it take?

Do you have to go through Glasgow or is there a road that just goes right past it?

Apparently 5 hours. And yes, on the M8 over the Kingston Bridge and down the M77. You'd probably be able to use the new M74 extension to miss out the M8. Google says it will cost £43 in fuel too! Haha.

I went to see The Lion King in the cinema last night. Wish I had just seen it in 2d as the 3d didn't really add an awful lot and dulled the colours.

It's as good as it was when I was little, but obviously the moral themes running through it were more obvious. I'm also not afraid to say I cried about 3 times, one of which was the obvious! Kinda glad I had the 3d glasses to hide the tears!

Saw Manchester Orchestra on Monday. First headline show I've seen them play. It was really really great!

Ricky Foster is quite hot. Although he looked better in blue last season!

He's doing a lot of DJing these days.

He has excellent taste in music, has DJed at ATP and HDIF? club night in London, has an Arts degree...

Ok... I take back my confusion now!

I'm really confused as to why Pat Nevin is on this show?!?

Watched 'How to Marry a Millionaire' with Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable. Made in 1953 but genuinely very amusing. Such glamourous actresses.

'One Fine Day' - Never watched it before, but given it was a rainy Sunday afternoon and on tv it was quite good.

The Wizard of Oz

Love Actually

Anchorman

The Notebook

Back to the Future

Shocking. I'll see that and raise you this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFP7aL2X-Q

I really like that song!!

This is a good thread!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUuqbSyTHY

I really could get carried away in this thread!!

The weather. I know it's now autumn but 9 degrees at 3pm this afternoon is just ridiculous.

And the new facebook. I don't understand why they need to keep making so many changes!

Nah, if they're showing Sky TV it has to be the specific 'pub' subscription (as per Sky's terms and conditions), but if it's an alternative provider (such as foreign sat channels via some weird link) then there's no actual law that says pubs can't. Hence the ambiguity.

There was definitely a case recently where the landlady of a pub was showing similar at 3pm on a Saturday and it was ruled in her favour - as someone has said above, to do with European competition legislation.

Probably. I didn't think that there was an alternative for pubs to be honest. It all sounded really complicated when we were talking about it and possible consequences for the pubs.

Couldn't get my head round why a pub in Paisley would be showing Aberdeen v Hibs on a Saturday afternoon in an empty pub either! Haha.

Is it legal for them to broadcast it? Not that I'm going to shop them to the rozzers or anything. Just interested.

I'm sure the menus said Viasat or something.

It's illegal. They can only show games on a Sky subscription for pubs. The only one they can show is the one that has the wee pint glass in the corner. I only know this because my friend is a solicitor and one day we traipsed round pubs to see if they were showing games illegally.

I have to add that it is an 'alleged' legal document. The language used throughout is not really consistent.

A legal document has been leaked about Martin Bain's action against Rangers for earnings etc to the tune of about £1.3m or something. Within this it suggests that Rangers' tax debt is approx £49m. The document also suggests that Whyte has no money (similar to the what most Rangers fans fear). If this can't be paid then insolvency is highly likely.

That's the jist of what I could understand from the very legal jargony document.

http://rangerstaxcase.com/

I got a Soda Stream for my birthday from my very lovely friends along with a shiney new tv from my parents to replace my 15 year old tv/video combi!

This has been a good birthday!

I was wondering where she came from. I have Radio 1 on in the office everyday and this song has been played over and over. I think it's great. Her guest vocals on other tracks are also really good. Think she'll have a pretty good career performance and songwriting wise!

Super 8. So good to see a film that was just genuinely amusing, emotional (at times) and action packed.

Very enjoyable!

I read The Tesseract and thought it was reasonably good. It got totally slated at the time if I remember correctly. You might be the first re-reader of that!

Recommendations:

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

The Given Day - Dennis Lehane

To be honest it was my friend who borrowed it, but I'd finished all my other books so had to read something!

I'll check out those recommendations you've posted. :-)

Have you read 'The Redbreast' already? Although the separate storylines kind of stand up in their own right, there are narrative threads which run through the books which makes it better to read in sequencealthough annoyingly there are 2 books not released in the UK which precede all the available ones.

I haven't read any other the others. I think I got this on some kind of offer with another book. I got the impression whilst reading it that there was something before it so I'm going to start from the beginning.

That's definitely a pie! The only steak pie I've ever had with pastry everywhere is a shortcrust one.

Puff pastry is just on the top (which I think is the best pastry for a steak pie). My mum makes steak pie in an ashet which wouldn't really allow for pastry all round the sides.

I'd suggest Barrhead Travel, but nip into the branch because the website doesn't help really.

Now onto 'The Redeemer' by Jo Nesbo. I love these books. I'm not usually one for crime type stuff but these are really enjoyable.

I read 'Nemesis' whilst on holiday. It was great, I need to get some of his other's and get back to Harry Hole's adventures!

Read another three books whilst I was away.

'Alone In Berlin' by Hans Fallada. It's a true story of a German couple who wrote postcards denouncing Hilter and the rest of the Nazis. Wonderful book.

'One Day' by David Nicolls and found it incredibly emotional. The tale of 2 people who met at their final day of university and their friendship over the next 20 years. Cried whilst sitting beside the swimming pool! Glad I had my sunglasses.

And a re-read of 'The Tesseract' by Alex Garland which was as good as the first time I read it.

Recommendations required please.