What time is it?

Reading time: 2 mins A question for any readers from the U.S.A. that are in the audience. I have a question about the American education curriculum … I’m fighting the urge to suggest that’s an oxymoron, but only because it’s be a bit cheeky of someone from the ‘worst small country‘ in Western Europe, a certain case of the…

A tale of woe

Reading time: 2 mins Bit old this but it’s been sitting unpublished and getting lonely… OK, that’s a slight exaggeration, it’s more a rant and a moan, than a story of distress. The tale begins several weeks ago when I ordered my MacBook, with the hope that, by the time it was built and delivered, we would have been…

Site note

Reading time: < 1 min The domain www.gordonmclean.co.uk no longer points at this site. There is a holding page there for now, and it won’t ever be much more than that, a place to get information about me, a URL I can use to link to without direct fear of dumping people straight into this blog. It will be expanded…

Finding a voice

Reading time: 3 mins Sitting on the balcony, watching the clouds scroll peacefully across the sky. A cold beer to one side gathering condensation from the warm air, droplets racing each other down the glass as he watches on, enjoying the sport whilst the fug of the previous night slowly ebbs away, evening slowly washes in. Hopefully he bashes…

Home, home on the range..

Reading time: 2 mins “And coming home it feels like I, designed these buildings I walked by” Having not been returned ‘home’ to Glasgow for a while I was quite surprised, as the train pulled into Glasgow Central this evening, to feel an overwhelming sense of comfortable familiarity. It must be the same as all the Londoners gazing at…

DITA DITA DITA*

Reading time: < 1 min Still in Reading, travelling home tomorrow and apologies to those who offered to meet up, I’ve barely left the hotel but have had two cracking nights with some very smart people, some of whom have told me some of the dirtiest jokes I’ve heard for a while. And no, of course I can’t remember them……