Bert Thomson

Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:15 UTC

I was in Bristol for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it's so interesting to read this view of the city. Elsewhere in the country, it's definitely thought of as having a boho, green, vibe and a quick day visit of course, does nothing to remove that view, so, an interesting counterbalance.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 06:35 UTC

I've never understood low turnout. It's the old adage. You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

What a waste. A couple of the albums, 'Astral Weeks', 'Moondance', 'Veedon Fleece' are all time classics but, as you say, the cognitive dissonance between the spirit and feel of the albums and the bitter wee guy he seems to be is a total wonder - and not in a good way.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

Yep, agreed, I'm much the same. I have many of his L.P.s and I've seen him live a number of times, but I can't listen to them anymore and I certainly wouldn't bother going to see him again

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

The Magical World of Moss: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001hqth via @bbciplayer
Lovely wee documentary if you haven't watched it already. On the iPlayer just now.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:19 UTC

Two game ban.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:42 UTC

The disconnect between Van Morrison the artist and Van Morrison, the man is unbelievable Sheena. There seems to be a chasm between the two.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

Nice to see the returning officer swerve shaking his hand.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

Sorry, there's a confusion in the discussion because there are three of us. I've no objection to the experienced giving the inexperienced advice in any part of life if that's what we're saying .

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:37 UTC

Yep, I see why you want to do it but for my part it would be a serious mistake.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:35 UTC

The problem isn't precedent, it's perception. Labour have been promising to abolish the HoL since 1910 but there it is, still standing and for them to use the HoL to get a failed politician into government will look like politicians ignoring the voters which fuels the far right's carve up narrative.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:26 UTC

Yes, maybe, I'd be cautious about that myself.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:20 UTC

That's just the kind of thing that fuels these Reform and other far right bastards. If a politician loses then they lose and 'finding a way to bring her back in', is utterly the wrong way to go.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:14 UTC

It's a total joy to see the back of the Tories after a desperate and failed 14 years. The concern though, is that Labour does too little in the next 5 years, and I do have those concerns. To quote E.M.Forster then, 'Two Cheers for Democracy ', not three.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:53 UTC

I agree completely. It would. It's a heavy responsibility.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

People who feel abandoned vote for these fuds Paula. A government that acts in a way that shows those who feel abandoned that they aren't just so much detritus, can shrink that far right vote to f*** all. So now it very much depends what we're going to get from Labour over the next five years.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

Thank you Jon

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

Maybe a wee bell will ring about 10 o'clock tonight, like the bell on the café door where Tony and his family are sitting just before it cuts to black. With the same message to the Tories as to Tony. 'Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.'

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

Thanks so much Paula, raising more than one glass tonight, to all those years and to seeing the back of the Conservative Party

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:22 UTC

Cheers Colin

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

Thanks Gaye and congratulations to your grandson too!

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:46 UTC

Graçias Jo

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:37 UTC

As well as all the other good things happening today, it's our 43rd wedding anniversary so, a big night of celebration.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:49 UTC

That one too.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:45 UTC

Ok Andy Scott, the Kelpies guy.👍

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

Did she also do the statue out on the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh Colin?

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

Hope not.😀

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 10:46 UTC

Ha! Thanks Gaye.😀 I do believe my other 450 posts on here have been positive and encouraging about whatever subject I've posted on, but after these last fourteen years I couldn't let these people slip back into the dark night they came from, without having just one go at them.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 10:23 UTC

Today's the day. So long, you, toxic, selfish, hateful, greedy, planet destroying, pricks. Don't let the door hit your arses on the way out.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 10:15 UTC

Yeah but BBC have Laura Kuenssberg, the famous Tory P.R. person, as an anchor and all things considered, I'd rather see Nads in a fury all night, veins popping, than endure Laura.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 10:12 UTC

Our polling station was busy but I also had a proxy to put in for my son in law at a polling station further into Glasgow, at Shawlands, and it was absolutely rammed.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:34 UTC

Absolutely. If Modi's targeting you you must know you're doing something right. It must have been something meeting her.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:39 UTC

I've got so much time for Roy though I can't agree with all that she does and says. She could have easily gone down the celebrity novelist route after 'The God of Small Things' but didn't, knowing that there was a much bigger world out there.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:11 UTC

This is excellent Seán. Nearly as good as 'White Teeth'. I've reposted it myself.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

Sud de l'Ecosse, ça gèle!

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:36 UTC

👍

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 07:52 UTC

'and if I pass this way again, you can rest assured,'

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:17 UTC

I had my dinner there in the late 1970s. Une bonne ambience!

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

😂

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:21 UTC

Nobody from Glasgow has a good word to say about Paisley, Sheena. That's been true for a hundred years or more😂

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

Yep, I'm really looking forward to it Jon. I've never seen them, so a first. Should be good .

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:10 UTC

The Waterboys tonight with daughters 1 and 2 at The Big Top on the recs at Queen's Park. Looking forward to it. There are three other bands, a couple of them excellent, but daughter no. 2 is enceinte, and so we'll give most of them a miss and get down in the evening. 'This Is The Sea.'

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 10:40 UTC

Ok thanks, not my locality, but great would be the pity, if that hopeless eejit got back in because of a lack of clarity from the other parties and their voters. We'll wish you all the best anyway.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 08:22 UTC

Seems looking at it from elsewhere, that the Lib Dem and maybe Green voters too, are just going to have to hold their noses and vote Labour to get rid of the utterly toxic mix of arrogance and idleness that Coffey is.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 07:17 UTC

Excellent.

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Bert Thomson @westcoastsmirr.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 10:31 UTC

A bargain Colin. It's like the football now for me. If you watch it on the telly and it's shite, (and both the football and the acts at Glastonbury often are) you can get up off the couch and do something constructive.

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