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Another week's worth of people's snaps from Scotland, courtesy of the BBC

#1 The Connel Bridge and Loch Etive: I know it well. Views of and from it in my Fotki files.

#3. Munro-bagging, a hobby I'd like to take up!

Peter, I thought of Ethan when I saw #5. And I thought of Mel and Chris when I saw #6.

#11: Ah, bliss! :-)

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Wow. I thought "Oh, I look mildly presentable today" when stopping in the washroom this afternoon to brush my teeth. Then I went looking for something on the Web and come across these:

http://www.dcconscripts.org/images/nv04spin01.jpg
http://www.dcconscripts.org/images/nv04cam08.jpg

They're photos from a local gaming group, snaps from matches I played in about two years ago. Thinning hair, scraggly beard, and lumbered with huge rolls of blubber. Yuck. I want to go crawl under a rock.

The perfect confidence-builder for this evening's date. :-(

as pointed out by percyprune, FCD

Peter, a pair for each of your children perhaps?

I think surely some for my fathers-side cousin in TX (the one who greeted my mother's news that I was converting to Judaism with "Oh, no, surely you're going to stop him? It would be so awful if he were to burn in Hell for all eternity!")

is there anything good on UK telly that the US won't just copy?

So, I'm checking out the IMDB listing for Life on Mars, after having watched the first ep, whihc was simply wonderful.

And there's a pre-production listing for the 2007 US series.

Well, I can only hope that it's half as good. What an amazing tour de force! John Simm, Philip Glenister (who I've been seing in little bits and pieces of roles for years finally gettting a meaty piece), and the stunningly beautiful Liz White.

It resonates for me all that much more being set in the early 1970s. The music, the clothing, it's all eerily familiar and comfortable, and that just adds to the amazing mind-bender of trying to see the experience of this DCI pushed back 30 years in time (or is he?) trying to solve the precursor to the murder he was workign on when he was injured (or is it all in his head?) Amazing! Bedtime? Balls; I have to watch at least one more ep...