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It's all about the silverware

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 5d

If this was 1975, the first silverware of the season would just have been handed to John Greig: open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...

And the first trophy of the season goes to...

Simpler times; complicated games...

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 8d

OK, so apparently I scheduled it for tomorrow. Let's see if I can fix that

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 8d

Fifty years ago today, and European football was a lot simpler...

open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...

European Dreams

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 10d

#NowPlaying #PicturesAtAnExhibition I’ve long wanted a good piano version, and this not only pairs Ashkenazy with a full orchestral version, it cost me pennies. More bargains to follow this week as I sort through them

Could the revolution be faltering already?

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 12d

It's October #1975, and the revolutionary new league format isn't exactly packing them in. The #SundayPost has some answers. Also, fog.

#SPFL #SPFLHistory #FiftyYearsAgo #Inflation

open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...

Lost in the fog

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 13d

A magnificent book, that. Shorn of his usual satire, it just resonates down the years

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 13d

#NowPlaying #DSCH #ActuallyWriting You know I’m buckling down to serious writing when the Shostakovich comes out - I have better recordings than this, but this was dads copy which he bought from Norco House for 99p roughly at the time I’m writing about

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 15d

open.substack.com/pub/bairnsot...

A Quiet week. Well, unless you're Jimmy Bonthrone, that is.

A quiet week

Well, quiet-ish...

October 1975, and it's League Cup semi-final time

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 17d

#NowPlaying What is the favourite band of the falconer who is too busy to do his housework during the day? #HawkKestrelManHooversInTheDark #OMD #Architecture&Morality #ligature

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Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 22d

Wednesday October 8, 1975 - midweek League Cup thrills and a replica siege cannon: bairnsotherevolution.substack.com/p/all-eyes-o...

All eyes on Hampden

bairnsotherevolution.substack.com

Bairns o' the Revolution | Salty Don | Substack

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · 25d

I'm trying something new to get myself in the rhythm of writing more now I'm retired...

Bairns o' the Revolution
bairnsotherevolution.substack.com?r=5fznzv&utm...

1975/76 in Scottish football - a time of revolution and lumbering about in the mud. Click to read Bairns o' the Revolution, by Salty Don, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.

bairnsotherevolution.substack.com

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Sep 20

#NowPlaying #Free An album which opened 20-year-old me’s eyes to a band I’d really only vaguely heard of. Sparked a change in the way I was buying music and caused me to spend a lot more time in the ‘back catalogue’ sections

It's another '50 years ago this week' post

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm definitely not turning my random weekly musings into a '50 years ago in Scottish football' thing, but - well, I couldn't let this slip by, could I? open.substack.com/pub/saltydon...

Big Night Out

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our garden birds - bigger than your garden birds #saltspring #TurkeyVulture #IslandLife

A Turkey Vulture perched on a branch of a tree in a garden on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Aug 30

Next week is 3 days, then three four-day weeks (I already don't work Fridays), so 15. It's close...

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Aug 30

If I remove the two public holidays and the day off I took so my last day isn't a Monday, I have exactly fifteen working days until retirement.

Which is about 14 too many as it's going

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Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Aug 30

Sadly, mine went the way of all my childhood books (including my treasured Muir and Norden 'My Word' compilations and just about everything written by Denys Parsons) and my vast collection of early 80s band t-shirts. Would have been nice to be consulted before they went in the bin

That time there was a revolution in Scottish football...

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Aug 29

It may have escaped your attention, but it's a significant anniversary in Scotland: saltydon.substack.com/p/a-grand-ex...

A Grand Experiment

saltydon.substack.com

I've been away, you'll have noticed

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Aug 8

I have resumed writing: open.substack.com/pub/saltydon...

The 1975 (post)

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are midway (almost exactly) through what is my fifth rewatch (and the GLW's second). This is entirely new information, and will require close scrutiny when we get there.

My previous rewatch was greatly enhanced by the WestWingWeekly podcast, this time I'm mostly reading the transcripts

Special Patrol Group (usually referred to in initials as "SPG") is a destructive hamster with the Glaswegian accent, named by his owner, the punk character Vyvyan in the BBC sitcom The Young Ones. Giv...

Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Aug 2

After a gap due to life getting in the way, the turntable is back in action - nothing better for a warm summer Saturday than some #Joni #HissingOfSummerLawns

Front image of the album sleeve of Joni Mitchell’s album ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’

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Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Jul 12

Not-so-sudden realisation dawning that the reason why I keep hearing early 80s pop hits in stores (two different venues this morning) is because they are stores aimed at people with dodgy knees who are about to retire.

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Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Jun 25

This one? theyoungones.fandom.com/wiki/Special...

Special Patrol Group

theyoungones.fandom.com

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Richard @vicdon.bsky.social · Jun 21

"Nearly 100 years old"

... and the rest

(unless that's a joke funny I am unaware of)