The Wine

A bottle of "what the hell are you looking at?"

Snooze mode

First up - I thought that Euan Fergusson wrote a pretty good column about Scottishness in today's Observer.

Just back from a few days in Vegas which was its usual mad, chaotic self. Stayed at the Wynn, but having stayed there and at the Bellagio I think that I'm a bit sick of the incredibly ostentatious displays of wealth that you get at these high end places....OK I admit it, I'm incredibly jealous of the displays of wealth that you get at these places. I actually feel most comfortable at New York or Treasure Island - or 'ti' as it has rebranded itself.

Oh, and we lost.

As you've probably noticed blog postings have pretty much dried up over August/September - surprisingly this has had very little effect on site traffic. I have a couple of side projects on the go which will fit in nicely here, but for the moment I can't see myself getting round to posting regularly again. As some of you know, for my sins, I work in the publishing industry and Caledonia Calling was a hands on experiment to see if this blogging malarky matched up to the hype. The answer is - no, not really. I've had some moderate success, met some cool people, even managed to wangle a couple of free drinks out of the process - but overall I have to agree with Aloysius Munn that Blogs are Pish, or as he put it:

Blogs are as dull as fuck. I mean, how many times have you browsed other people's blogs only to come across countless volumes of persiflage along the lines of 'Random musings on sex and donuts, by some fucker's dog'?

I reckon I might have inspiration to post a few things a month, so check back irregularly - especially for the You Tube feature on whisky cocktails.

Footie

Let's not beat about the bush - the chances are that we'll get a right humpin' off France and Italy....but what a start. The Faroes are part timers, but Lithuania are a different matter.

Nice one! Trust that the Tartan Army enjoyed it.