I should preface this post by saying that it has nothing to do with Labour’s inability to pick a candidate for the forth-coming by-election, although I do suspect that their lost weekend didn’t actually ‘feel’ as bad as mine.

I think it’s probably fair to say that my lost weekend started some 16 – 24 hours in advance of Labours – on Thursday night – although in both cases, mine and theirs, it involved participants who were either naive, unable to take part or simply unwilling to take part.

In my case, I should have listened to the dull nagging at the back of mind yittering about mixing ‘the grape’ and ‘the grain’ as I headed out with a bottle of red and a bottle of scotch.  It was a naivety that was to rule me out of much of the weekend’s ‘entertainments’ … which is interesting in itself, because it was a degree of naivety that had George Ryan firmly in place as the candidate for Glasgow East, only for him to fail to arrive at the selection meeting. 

So for George “I was cleared of benefits fraud” Ryan and myself Friday was a bit of a non-event … we both hid in-doors and for my part I concentrated on pleasant thoughts as far removed from the toilet bowl as possible, with only limited success I might add. 

Saturday saw events come and go for me.  Again, as with Friday, the mrs took the kids away while I slowly recupirated, I’m never an enthusiatic participant in outings and ’stuff’, although at least by saturday I had progressed from ’a very unable’ to ‘ a very unwilling’ participant.  A stand point which was by-and-large respected, or at least understood, albeit massively broadcast amongst family and freinds.  Curiously, a situation not entirely unlike potential Labour candidates for the Glasgow East by-election, Frank McAveety and Stephen Purcell, amongst others … unwilling to take part, but at least understandable as to why that might be.

By Sunday I was practically fixed, not quite, but almost.  Just as I was reflecting on what I had missed over the weekend thus far, a trip to the beach, the shops, a visit to the in-laws; I imagine that someone else, Margaret Curran perhaps, was also pondering what her party was missing over the weekend, some candidate led campaigning perhaps?  So Margaret Curran is currently the ‘best bet’ to be Labour Candidate, but let’s face it, who knows.

Anyway, my weekend ended up with a trip to a local photography exhibition featuring a number of pictures taken for a competition to raise funds for the local ‘library’.  I had entered a few pictures myself, and whilst one of my entries was ‘highly commended’, I didn’t win … which given the quality of the top three, I’m inclined to say that the competition was rigged*, clearly my pictures were superior in EVERY way …

… I wonder how the Glasgow East by-election will play out on July 24th, I wonder if Margaret Curran (or whoever) will cry foul with the latest Labour war-cry:

“it was the Nats that done it”

 

 

* Actually, that’s probably unfair … in fact, that is unfair,
the winning pictures were very good.