Aw man what can I say, Christopher Brookmyre is an absolute legend.
The man gave up his time for free, read to us, generally entertained us and swore even better than AllyBea when shes had a bad day with the knitting needles!! The only other swearing aficionado I know often punctuates sentences with F*$@in' instead of a full stop or capital letter. So to hear a man explain how the BBC required him to reduce his use of expletives in his radio play for a late night slot; that he had used F&*k 40 times and he was only allowed 15 F@*k's. In a nutshell he had too many f@*k's. Well you can imagine the uproarious laughter.
Hysterical, he read from a book titled "A tale etched in blood and hard black pencil". He explained how there was a strong autobiographical element to the story and that almost everything had actually happened when he was at school. His colourful description of how children sitting on a hard wooden gymnasium floor have the instant urge to fart and the subsequent contortions of trying not too. It is not funny in the retelling, certainly the way I retell it but he had the place in stitches as we all recalled episodes of our former school years and that exact situation.
It was a fantastic night and we raised a pretty penny. The wean is as we speak sitting at the table counting the proceeds from our bag packing expedition earlier on in the day.
Big thanks must go to Anne and Tony T. Anne for her contacts (she knows CB) Tony T for running round like a headless chook. Scotmid in Strathaven for letting us pack shopping for fun(!). The people of Strathaven for being so generous, given that RBS was emblazoned across our t-shirts. Also Stratheven Striders, family and friends for supporting us in our venture.
PS...... nae runnin'.
Physio is going well. I can walk and run a bit, physio said to do what I feel comfortable with. But cant sit for too long or bend over. Go figure.
Mrs Mac x
