According to the Guardian website, Scottish Secretary, David Mundell, is “the first member of the Tory cabinet to come out as gay”. It must surely be a slow news day for this to be the lead item. Roll on the day when such ‘news’ will merit nothing more than a footnote. Between now and then, of course, a Premier League football will come out as gay. He’ll have to be brave, and thick-skinned. The last top-flight footballer to bear his soul was Justin Fashanu, in 1990. Eight years later he hung himself in a lock-up garage…
Made a detour to Dumfries yesterday, another place that’s suffered from flooding. I found a little pub, close to the river, and joined three guys at the bar to talk amiable bollocks for a couple of hours…
Kirkandrews Tower, a fortified house near Longtown...
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