My pic from the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Etienne, as Scotland lined up for their last match at a World Cup finals, on 23 June 1998. At full-time, upset kids were being consoled by their parents. Now those young fans may well be planning a football odyssey with their own children next summer.

You only have until Saturday to catch the impressive Paula Rego Visions of English Literature exhibition at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock. Features her take on classic nursery rhymes and Peter Pan, amongst others.

It’s September…

So, if you’re going to Dublin to research your dissertation on Irish politics, of course I’ll come.

As Father’s Day presents go… #nowplaying

More years than it should have been since we were last in Lucca. Beautiful as ever.

Can’t wait to read this from the hugely talented @danielgraywriter.bsky.social This Sunday I’ll be having a pub lunch in one of my favourite Lanarkshire towns (Strathaven) with some relatives I haven’t seen for a while and Ethel the Pug.

First gig of the year, and @lloydcole.bsky.social was in fine form and fine voice in Glasgow last night as part of Celtic Connections.