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.