Life In The Slow Lane

In Southeast Asia small capacity machines like this are pressed into service carrying staggering amounts of stuff. Speed isn’t important, just the ability to move produce and people from A to B, no matter how slowly. I have seen 2 adults, 2 kids and a dog on a C90 outfit loaded down with bags of rice higher than the riders head, and all at a stately 5-10 mph.

(Spotted while on holiday in Thailand)

Beer O'Clock

It's not five in the morning and I'm definitely not a saint

Tonight in the fridge there are a couple of 5 a.m. Saint ales from Scottish craft brewers BrewDog located in Ellon, Aberdeenshire. 

Xmas Decorations

(Spotted in a local store)

Great Wee Roads

“A Great Wee Road in my terminology just means a small road that isn’t a main route and which is fun to drive. Often it will be a short cut or at least an alternative route to the main road. It will virtually never be quicker than the main-road route but it will be a pleasure to drive, perhaps partly because it has less traffic, partly because it goes through lots of beautiful scenery and perhaps because it has lots of flowing curves, sudden dips, challenging hills and/or fast straights (though GWRs rarely have many of those). A GWR can be extremely slow – often way below the legal limit – and still be enormous fun, it can even be a single-track road, quite busy with traffic and so somewhat frustrating, and yet still be a hoot, and some roads only really become GWRs when it’s raining and you have to slow down.”

Excerpt from “Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram”, by Iain Banks, which I’d recommend to anyone with a liking for irreverent humour and/or malt whisky.

Pistonhead

Beer suitable for Pistonheads everywhere

Waiting On A Bus

These “art deco” vans were made by Albion Trucks, Scotstoun in the 1930’s. The vans were what must have been a very distinctive yellow and green. Castlebank Dyeworks were a well-known Glasgow based cleaners and dyers who had branches across much of Central and West Scotland.

(Via: scotianostra) 

For A Rainy Day

This doesn’t seem like it’s going to work very well.

(Via: iamatravelninja)

Happy Birthday, Jack!

Tricolour

(Via: scramblernation)

Brewed Since 2000 BC

On a recent trip to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh I came across this Pictish carved stone.

It looked kind of familiar. A bit of a search and I found it on the label for Fraoch Heather Ale, a beer that I have been known to have now and again. And very nice it is too.