I am delighted to say that yesterday I found there is another really rather good coffee shop just down the road from me, making it much handier than my regular haunts of Offshore or Beanscene.

Not that there's anything wrong with those places, right enough... in fact, I was in Offshore on Saturday night. The guy even looked up the name of an artist who had a show on there a few weeks ago which I liked, which was very good of him; and I finally picked up a loyalty card (it only seems fair).

In fact, this place is even closer than my favourite cafe/bar that is Jellyhill, which is all the way up in Hyndland and serves rather nice (if expensive) wine as well as rather nice (and less expensive) coffees.

No, this one is called Oscar & Holly's, and is skulking down in Broomhill, right on Crow Road. It has the disadvantage of closing really early (6pm weeknights, 8pm weekends) but on the plus side it is practically next door to me (5mins walk tops), as well as making nice drinks. They seemed to have exceedingly good cakes (albeit not from Mr Kipling) too, although I was trying to be healthy and not eat them. That, plus the fact I was still ploughing my way through my free Galaxy bars I picked up as part of some ludicrous promotion at Buchanan Galleries on Saturday.

So yes, if you happen to find yourself that bit further out of the city, pop in to Oscar & Holly's and admire the bright colour scheme while trying to decide whether the baby in one of the three pictures they have on the wall is, in fact, crying his eyes out.

Thought I'd fixed everything yesterday. I was wrong. It's fixed now, though.

Hmm, apparently this thing leaves a huge gap whenever I only post a one-line entry. How odd.

I've been taking full advantage of my shiny new camera over the past week or so. So far, it's been around the west end, into work and up to Loch Lomond. Apart from changing lenses (which is something of a hassle when you're on the move), it's absolutely perfect. And in fairness, I could have got around the lens problem if I'd fancied spending £550 extra on an all-in-one lens, which I didn't, oddly.

Anyway, seeing as I'm stuck waiting for flooring to come (still), here is some of the photographic evidence that I haven't just been sitting in the house...

Pretty much the first proper image I managed to take this was basically an experiment in night-shooting without using the simple auto-mode (which, when shooting in the city, makes the sky orange. I mean, the sky is orange, but still). Stood up at Partickhill and aimed it at Glasgow Harbour. I took another one which was zoomed in - you could pretty much make out individual rooms, which was a tad scary given that I was at least a mile away.

A west end stalwart, Ashton Lane. We didn't actually end up in any of these pubs as they were either a/ mobbed or b/ rubbish, but it still looks nice in a picture. This one was just done on auto mode, as were most of the others as it made pretty much as good a job was possible.

Apologies to whoever owns the B&B at Balmaha and was confused by the randoms standing outside taking pictures of their windows, and windowboxes. Actually, when I write that, I'm impressed the police didn't turn up.

On the beach on the loch shore, there is this. It looks nice.

The sun finally came out as we were almost about to leave, so I got some reflection-type pics. They're not perfect, but they're pretty good, and better than the ones I took when the water was magically flowing uphill owing to my inability to hold the camera level.

I rather like this, actually, These were on a not insubstantial tree above the path. Thanks to the magic of zoom, they might as well have been on the ground...

...Much like this, erm, was actually. I want to figure out how to take a picture in the rain so you can see the individual drops; I haven't figured out how fast the shutter speed needs to be and how to make it work without the whole picture going black yet.

So yes, that's my adventures so far. I kinda hoped that in the time it took me to process the pics and type this, Mr B&Q would have turned up with my floor, but sadly no luck yet. Oh well.

Oh, I've yet to figure out how to colour-correct or anything in Photoshop (or indeed why I'd want or need to) so these are all exactly as they were taken, just resized and cropped a bit (especially in the case of the Ashton Lane one, as there were big ugly bins in the right of the frame which I failed to notice at the time).

Hello. You'll probably find that basically none of the links here work right now. You couldn't even see this front page until a minute ago, my server's gone nuts quite frankly. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. Sorry.

Work continues on the flat - my joiner started yesterday. I now have windowsills made of wood, as opposed to minging PVC, and the cool old-style alcove which had been inexplicably half-filled in is now getting towards being restored to its former glory. Today he is building a cabinet; my tiler/electrician/plumber is getting bits of the bathroom plastered and finishing off tiling my kitchen (in theory, he's not here yet) and I'm waiting for 34 packs of hardwood flooring to arrive and probably fall through the floor.

Fun stuff.

Spotted yesterday, in Sainsbury's...

It's September.