Ms Raccoon regrets…
You are too late. Should have called in earlier. She’s already left.
She has jetted off to sunny Glasgow to attend a seminar on Moral Panic.
She thinks Marrakech would have been a better idea too.
Assuming she survives a Scottish spring day or two, she will be back on Sunday.
More than one link in a comment, and you will be in moderation – until I get back.
Please pause at the honesty box on your way out and at least try to look as though you are putting something in there…I have now found a market for second hand buttons.
h/t to Jabba the Cat for image.
- RealPengy
May 15, 2014 at 8:28 am -
Have fun in the sun.
- Ellen Coulson
May 15, 2014 at 8:56 am -
Have a great time but take plenty of water with your malt
- Moor Larkin
May 15, 2014 at 9:01 am -
No Hiding Place
http://moralpanicseminars.wordpress.com/ - DtP
May 15, 2014 at 9:01 am -
Have fun – ah, Glasgow in the spring – it’s days like these that make us glad to be alive!
- Clarissa
May 15, 2014 at 9:05 am -
I shall be just up the road in Edinburgh. Hopefully we’ll both have decent weather.
- amfortas
May 15, 2014 at 9:15 am -
They swear by deep-fried Mars Bars there as a cure all. Just hand a few out to stem panic.
- Tedioustantrums
May 15, 2014 at 11:13 am -
I’ll keep an eye out for you. Watch out for trams. That’s the £1 billion trams that cost an extra pound and take 15 minutes longer than the airport bus. The joys. No rain this weekend apparently.
- guthrie
May 15, 2014 at 8:46 pm -
She’s off to Glasgow, not Edinburgh, you geographically challenged person!
- Moray
May 16, 2014 at 12:12 pm -
My surname is Guthrie – where are you from?
- guthrie
May 17, 2014 at 10:26 am -
Edinburgh, but the name comes from a great great- grandmother’s maiden name, has been passed down several generations since then. There seems some evidence that the surname does come from the town in Angus.
- guthrie
- Tedioustantrums
May 16, 2014 at 12:16 pm -
See Clarindas comment two or three up above. She says Edinburgh. I know my Scottish geography. I’ve lived here almost all my life..
- guthrie
May 17, 2014 at 10:28 am -
I quote CLarinda’s comment in full:
“I shall be just up the road in Edinburgh. Hopefully we’ll both have decent weather. :)”Just up the road is perhaps a relative term; at rush hour it can take well over an hour to get along said road, at night under 40 minutes. But it certainly doesn’t indicate that Anna will be in Edinburgh. I’ve lived in Scotland most of my life (apart from some time in England working and stuff) and well know the East/ West divide.
Unfortunately the weather isn’t working out so well, it was great on Friday but rain on and off today and tommorrow.
- guthrie
- Moray
- guthrie
- Fat Steve
May 15, 2014 at 11:45 am -
If you speak with Frank Furedi on your trip you should find someone of a similar intellectual calibre as yourself 9no easy thing I suspect)—-his article on of the similarities between the NSPCC and PIE is as incisive and honest as your own writing.
- Ed P
May 15, 2014 at 11:55 am -
I hope no MPs see the seminar’s title letters and think it’s a freeby for them. (It’s unlikely as most (all?) have no morals.)
- Moray
May 15, 2014 at 12:47 pm -
If you have time, try a side trip to Inveraray – nice place + my great grandfather was the provost
- WJohn
May 15, 2014 at 3:55 pm -
Anna,
Welcome to our country.
We (well I am) are pleased that you chose to come here. And you chose one of the best seasons to come (the other being Autumn) – before the midgies, before the English tourists (nothing against English people , but the canny Scot’s services put the prices up in anticipation) and before the usually horrible summer weather.
Words cannot express how we appreciate your witterings. And admire your steadfastness against adversity. And your delving into otherwise unreported truths.
Lang may yer lum reek, and fair fa’ yer honest sonsie face.
Wull.- Tedioustantrums
May 17, 2014 at 8:04 am -
Midges in Edinburgh ? Wrong coast and way far too south for midges.
- guthrie
May 17, 2014 at 10:32 am -
I’ve met plenty of midges on the outskirts of Edinburgh and indeed in the borders, the difference being you don’t get such horrendous swarms of them as you do in the Highlands, and indeed the internet seems to agree that they are concentrated especially in the highlands but found elsewhere, although the picture is muddied by there being many different species across Europe and the world. However I suggest that being bitten is a pain no matter where you are located and most people don’t stop to check the precise species.
- guthrie
- Tedioustantrums
- Frankie
May 15, 2014 at 5:26 pm -
Hope you packed your ‘cossie’ – there’s a heatwave coming… apparently.
- sally stevens
May 15, 2014 at 7:09 pm -
Och aye, and have a grand time!
- JuliaM
May 16, 2014 at 5:38 am -
I don’t know whether to say ‘Bon Voyage!’ or ‘See you, Jimmie!’. Have a great time
- Tedioustantrums
May 17, 2014 at 8:10 am -
Best starting point for conversing with the locals is “aw right pal” or “aw right bud”. Finish all sentences with eh. If you can speak Polish, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, German, French, that’ll help too. Think United Nations.
- Tedioustantrums
- Ho Hum
May 16, 2014 at 2:40 pm - Ho Hum
May 17, 2014 at 12:00 pm -
BTW, the best way to create a moral panic in the centre of Glasgow is to ask a visitor which of the local teams, Celtic or Rangers, is the better
The safest response is for them to state that they are an atheist
- Leg-iron
May 18, 2014 at 12:47 am -
Ah. By the time I read this, you’ll be on your way back.
Too late to nip down to Glasgow for a day – and I had a rare day off work today too! I will pay more attention in future.
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