OFF: Trainspotting

[Rob Stuckey]

>
> Boy, I get bored easily when the BOC-L tide ebbs :-).  Any way,
> to mention something off topic, I just started reading a book
> called Trainspotting by Irvin Welsh (sp?).  I highly recommend it
> to members of the list (but not to the sqeamish).  It describes
> the lives of some folk living in Edinburgh including some junkies
> and psychos.  My favorite part so far is where the hero (undergoing
> heroin withdrawal) has to retrieve his opium suppositories from
> a full toilet in the back of a bookies
>
> Martyn
>
> Ob tenuous boc-l connection:  I wander if any of our Edinburgh
> list members know any of the characters in the book :-)
>

    Perhaps you didn't know that this book has just been turned into
   a film of the same name.....and rather good it is too, very funny
   and quite bizarre in places.

    bye - Rob