Merry Christmas from me & Irn Bru

I think Irn Bru's "Snowman" ad from last year is one of the best pieces of Christmas advertising ever. Hope you have a tremendous Christmas, and I'll be back blogging more frequently post-Festive season.

Merry Christmas!

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Iain Dale says what most of us are thinking

A poll on Iain Dale's Diary invites readers to vote for their person of the year in a number of categories. A screenshot of one of those features above.

It appears that - and assuming Mr Dale's interest in affairs of the Scottish Parliament is not quite that of Scottish bloggers' - the Leader of Labour in the Scottish Parliament's reputation preceeds him.

For those of you who don't know who I mean, that person is Iain Gray.

Though Iain GREY (as Iain Dale would have it) might well be more appropriate.

I'm assuming it is just a wee mistake on Mr Dale's part... But still... He's on the money with it!

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Joke Technician

Went to see Jimmy Carr at the Edinburgh Playhouse last night. While some (most) of his material would be... inappropriate, I did find a couple of lines I could share with you.

Quoth Jimmy:

"I thought that with this EU integration thing, racism was at least lessoning. Not so. Just look at some of the signs in shops across the country:

'No cheques accepted'.

Even the BBC is at it. Reporting on trends in racism the reporter said:

'Let's look at the polls'."

Other than that, there's not much I can share with you. Good stuff though!

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Scottish Round-up

As part of the new team helping out with the Scottish Round-up, I had the pleasure of writing this week's edition. You can read it here, should you wish!

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