Christmas - I visited the bank on Gordon Street, Glasgow. All of the staff were wearin' Santa Claus outfits! Fifteen minutes before, five young indigenous young men were frozen on Royal Exchange Square. What a shame of the western world. I learned later that the bank were raising money for Save the Children and that was good. I was wrong. On leaving the bank I met a young lady on the bus. I asked her, 'Is it chicken or turkey for Christmas? The young lady answered, 'Whatever comes to hand!' She was a survivor!' As they parted company, I passed a wee joke - 'Did you here about the police constables? They stabilize the conmen!

Colin visited the sheriff court to see how they do things. Sitting too long in the gallery of Court No. 5 gave him flashbacks of 1983 and more recently the assaults by the characters with a mental age of negative five. Colin had to find a wall ie back up against the wall, but the policeman on duty told him to keep quiet & still. Colin often wondered if he would see the thug on another charge for attempted murder. The visits to the sheriff court brought it all back 'cause it was negative. In that same year of 1983, Colin was saved by a friendly Spanish coach driver stopping for him on the motorway. In essence, this was citizenship at his highest level. Had it not been for the friendly Spanish coach driver Colin would have died of heat exhaustion. But by some hook or by crook, five days later, he was held at gunpoint on the French / Belgian border before possible kidnap.