{"id":1395,"date":"2025-06-05T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:35:17","slug":"time-takes-a-cigarette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Time takes a cigarette …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I HAVE more time on my hands during these days of (semi-) retirement, but like sand, it seems to keep slipping through my fingers.<\/p>\n

Trips to India and, more recently France, have only stirred my wanderlust and I’ll have to keep it in check to let my wallet catch up.<\/p>\n

Then I remembered my sadly neglected space on the web, so\u00a0 here I am.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to mention the fatuous Trump (just now) or the equally ludicrous sight of Farage trying to give the impression of a serious politician.<\/p>\n

I have been looking through the thousands of images on my laptop \u2013 some dating back 20 years \u2013 wondering whether I should move them all to the cloud or an external drive, but before I do either, I thought a selection might offer a way to use some of my bandwidth.<\/p>\n

The images were shot at various locations around the world, but mostly in Scotland, so enjoy our beautiful country and a selection of others.<\/p>\n

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This was taken at the David Bowie Museum in New York.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a picture from D C Thomson’s Dundee Courier of Bowie performing at a gig in the Caird Hall in 1973<\/p>\n

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And another from the same gig and the same publisher. I was working with D C Thomson at the time and I was at this gig. I’m sitting in the balcony with a lot more hair than I have these days!<\/p>\n

More pictures some time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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