Friday, August 22, 2025

Saturday, August 23

 When I bought my new ereader a couple of months ago it came pre-loaded with a few books.  I ignored them until yesterday when I had finished what I was reading and was looking for something else.  I saw that one of the pre-loaded books, Paying For It by Tony Black was set in Edinburgh and wondered whether it might be like Rebus.

It might very well be, but I'm afraind there is a language barrier that I struggle with;'

'I saw Mac the Knife was on edge.  I knew the signs.  The Weejie stride was in place, chest out, in a dead heat with the spacehopper guttedge,'

I know (or think I know) that Weejie refers to someone from Glasgow.  Maybe I understand 'Weejie stride' as a way of walking, but 'spacehopper guttedge'  Nope!

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