
Apologies for double post, but I though I needed to break the chain of random music postings I've made and link something more serious.
Anyway, a couple of years before he died I once had the pleasure of sharing a few pints with Jimmy Reid, who was a genuine legend.
It's not a long read, but impressively it still sounds as if it was written in modern times, not in 1972!
Anyway. Jimmy Reid - Pure dead brilliant... Unfortunately.
( , Mon 10 Dec 2012, 20:34, Reply)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:drrZvvbN-BAJ:www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_167194_en.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgs9GKMi9R5TddRQ9OXd8QZflkRTTJForezgc1c993_29pNwVOB4s77AXQ41cvUDoPGIHhFRSD3BFd7l62yIficUJwN4k4hfSnN_J1eOjn5Lo4lqSEfpSCx8hLu70Vus32dGwMy&sig=AHIEtbQI3MeKTP3LuAv2lZ-RuRdE_rlgiw
I will give that a spin on my kindle. Hard to click 'I like this' until I have read it though...
( , Mon 10 Dec 2012, 20:38, Reply)

Cheers, I wasn't sure about PDF link etiquette so I just went for it
( , Mon 10 Dec 2012, 20:44, Reply)

but they are a whorish format, full of crabs and old spunk.
( , Mon 10 Dec 2012, 20:50, Reply)

prolly well gc but only recently stumbled upon here, thought it may be of help to our transatlantic cousins:
https://edit.ethz.ch/cepe/education/ResMethodWriting/WritingDoctoral/edit/anglo-eu-translation-guide1.pdf
( , Mon 10 Dec 2012, 20:52, Reply)

Looks like a good read for the train into work in the morning.
Thank you.
( , Mon 10 Dec 2012, 20:54, Reply)