manflu

Walking along today to stock up on lemsips and other assorted cold and flu remedies it struck me that this is the first properly cold day of winter. My spies tell me its been snowing in Aberdeen and the Borders, which is exactly where I’m supposed to be this weekend but I’ve been attacked by manful. The plan was to go bothying, which for those not in the know, a bothy is a sort of stone house in the middle of no where to give walkers some shelter when their walking for a few days at a time. They also make great places to go with a few friends and a large bag of coal, but, alas, not for me this time. Can you tell I don’t have anybody to moan at?

Heres a picture of the last bothy trip





ach, well….worse things happen at sea

Picture & Banks

Autumns’ misty fingers seem to be inevitably turning to winter in this part of the world, so our thoughts are turning back , probably temporarily, toward the summer months. As a consequence of this, we’ve got round to putting up some pictures that Iona took while we were in Germany a couple of months ago which you can see here:


Germany 2008 pictures



We’ve also found a bit of video that someone took at one of the gigs, so we’ve added it to our myspace page. We don’t know who took it, but he or she goes under the monicker steffosi, so thanks to that mysterious person for taking that



A bit of really good news today is that we’ll play at the Celtic Connections in January on the 17th. This will be Doghouse Roses’ first time at the festival, but given a bit of luck, not our last.



After all that reminiscing and positive events its time to have a quick word about 2 institutions on the UK high street that have recently excelled themselves in the field of customer service and are a credit to their profession. Which really isn’t saying much. Anybody not familiar with UK high street banks may not get who exactly I’m talking about here, but the 2 institutions have names that sound a bit like the “Grabby National” and the Handipak Bank of Schottland. They have both distinguished themselves by losing confidential documents, failing to care in any way whatsoever, not returning phone calls, and, when someone manages to stay awake long enough to answer a phone or look up when you approach the counter, their sole purpose for being there seems to be to try and sell you a loan or credit card. Fine stuff guys, keep it up, but if your not careful that sort of attitude may get you into trouble. Hmmm, seems it already has,