Have YOU recovered from the 'festive Season'!?

I wrote the following in January but obviously forgot to upload it, so it makes sense to pt this up before I write anything else!

Well, the Festive Season must be over because the television, the papers, and the shops are full of adverts and programmes, and books, etc on HEALTHY LIVING, DIETING, AND EXERCISE! If you are lucky, you only have a few pound to shed after a bout of excess over the Christmas and New Year periods! If you are unlucky,you have suddenly realised what everyone else has seen 'creeping up on you' - that you are extremely over weight and unhealthy. However until there is a little light that goes on in your head and a little switch gets flicked over - all the prompting frokm other people does not do any good. You have to decide for yourself and inside yourself that you have to change the way you live. Even if it is just a small simple change like trying to take a walk every day - IT WILL HELP! Bigger changes will create bigger changes but snall steps will eventually get the same result - like the hare and the tortoise, I suppose. I would rather be the tortoise and win in the long run than be the hare who looks like he is winning, but who gives up halfway through and ends up losing the race.


I was at a couple of gigs which my friends in the band THE VAGABONDS held - one on Boxing Day and one on New Years Night [1st Jan.2006] and took a few photographs. At one point during the New Year gig Sandy and a friend had decided to 'have a laugh' and did a quick 'change' in the back, and came back on stage as 'Mick Jagger' and 'Ozzy'. It did make everyone in the place almost double over with laughter! They are a great live band and if you ever get the chance to see them perform, take it. They have a regular spot every Thursday night in the Scotia Bar in Glasgow from 9 p.m.[ish] but it is very cramped in there so they do not do the 'full' over the top 'show' but it is still usually excellent. They cover a wide variety of music with Rolling Stones covers some of their favourites.