Its five in the morning, dark and cold, but the citron grey tea is slipping down a treat and soon, after a short drive, I will be hanging around Gatwick Airport until my flight to Edinburgh is called - can you see me smiling? I love airports and flying and arriving, all of it, and I am so looking forward to being in another city but with friends and family. I'm not a huge collector of friends and the ones I have in Scotland I have had for over forty years, which in real time is a long time. Though I have accumulated another couple along the way - and family too of course, I am an uncle many times over and a great uncle (oh sigh - yes my four sisters, who are all younger than me, are grannies). But after landing I will be having breakfast with Rocky (Councillor Gordon Munro) before heading down to see my dad and that's a great thought for the day. This is a song about a Rochdale girl - I have never been to Rochdale but I like this song:
