#OTD nine-years-ago; bricking myself, as the doors opened on the Lost Glasgow exhibition, at the Glasgow City Heritage Trust, in Bell Street. Over its two-month-run, we welcomed a record 5,403 of you beautiful people through the doors - and here was me feart that no-one would show!

So, this is me at the moment - packing bags, making lists, emptying the fridge, putting the bin out, and booking an airport taxi for crack o' sparrowfart for a run to the sun. Pic: Three-year-old Paul Flannigan heading off on holiday from St Enoch Station in 1957 (TSPL).

Yaas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzmp...

For all who have lost pals... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqxR...

Nacht! There's a Northern drop to that; better than Bowie! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMJ...

Mad! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uuM...

The 'Owl of Minera'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fffd...

And you wake up to this - forgot to switch my pnone off! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDK6...

This should be the sign-off... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTD_...

Nacht - honest! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oupO...

Still dancing in my stocken-shoes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvTI...

Nacht! Word of advice, never try to keep pace with Al Jackson Jnr; you'll end up peched out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5oO...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... Ok, Glasgow, on June 26 1894, Jo was planning a trip to Saltcoats, to visit his friend, Tom Crawford. I hope the weather held fair, and that Jo managed to get out on his bike.

Opened #OTD in 1970 - The Kingston Bridge. Here it is, near completion, in September 1969, with.the paddle steamer "Caledonia" about to pass beneath its outstretched arms, on its last sailing of that season from Glasgow to the Kyles of Bute.

Just dropping off when some loud shouts in my street - stand up, bollock naked from bed, and keek through my curtains; a couple on those cooncil e-bikes. Him, sounding like Slade, shouting: 'Were we ga'ing?'

When you start giving your own commentary to a World Cup game - ooh, nearie! that was almost on! - time for bed.

One of my group chats tells me that @metallica.com covered The Proclaimers' '500-miles' at Hampden tonight. Didn't have that on my bingo card. That's them honorary Scots now - whether they like it or not!

Well, that was a pleasant surprise; a quick beer and a long-overdue catch-up with an old school chum, who was downstairs at his stepson's flat having a BBQ, before the gang headed off to see Metallica.

With Glasgow schools breaking up for the summer... 'What do you see?' 'Teachers... drunk teachers - thousands of 'em!'

Anyway, back to the usual auld claes an' cauld parritch... It's March 1940, and I'm wondering why the long face?

In 1978, the Peru game, I was at a Scout camp at Erskine, and the old soldiers at the hospital invited us all to watch the game on their big, colour, TV - 24"; they'd laid on juice and crisps. As we trooped out in silence, WWI veterans, in their Glengarries and Tam o' Shanters, were weeping...

Aye, it's a cold reality, but a country with a population of 5.5m got there, and lost to a country of 213.5m. Nae hard feelings; 'mon back to oors, and oor maw will make ye a roll an' mince...

From Glasgow... www.youtube.com/watch?v=733N...

A reminder that for the first time since 2009, the scaffolding is coming off Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Egyptian Chambers (fresh scaffolding to go up). Go see it as some of you have never seen it - go see it in this brilliant sunshine!

Hydration break... The long hot summer of 1976 saw drouthy Glaswegians form a line in George Square to quench their thirst. Sadly, due to the ornate red granite Crum Fountain being busticated, thirsty citizens had to make do with this wee metal water spout.

Horses for polychromatic brick courses... This week finds Frank in Stanley Street, Kinning Park, admiring the local Co-op Society's two-tone van shed and multi-storey stables. Pic/text: 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture (1981) by Frank Worsdall

With Scotland kicking off against Brasil tonight, here's Pele, the original Samba King, at Hampden, in June 1966, when we drew 1-1 with them in a friendly. The young autograph-hunter is future city pub and nightclub owner, Greg McLeod.

Janefield Cottage, a unique and historic corner of the West End has just hit the market. I hope it gets the love and care it deserves. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

Sign of the times... It's 1937, we're in Waterloo Street, and this lonely worker is getting ready to install a new shop front. Either that, or he's pinching materials, and the guy in the doorway, right, is keeping edgy!

Small acts of kindness/daftness*; padded envelope and four Crunchie bars about to wing their way to Massachusetts, and a Yank who did some of his growing up in Clydebank. That's football for you! *Delete as appropriate.

#OTD in 1933, Professor Albert Einstein was in town, to accept an honorary doctorate from Glasgow University.

I love the fact that the's SAHB drummer www.youtube.com/watch?v=euto...

Nacht" *Sonny Bono before he was a Republican. www.youtube.com/watch?v=euto...

Tartan Army... www.youtube.com/shorts/WcHg1...

John Knox (Scottish: 1778-1845), The Nelson Monument Struck by Lightning, 1817 – 1821, oil on canvas. Think it's safe to say Lewis Capaldi did the same tonight.

Nacht! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjjQ...

The stuff that producer Neil Anderston and his Original Gravity label is putting out - floor fillers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi4e...;

I thank you for the days... Happy 82nd birthday to Ray Davies. I once saw him on the London Underground; we smiled and nodded. In 1967, The Kinks recorded a live LP at the Kelvin Hall.

Happy heavenly Father's Day to my namesake, Sapper Norman Wilson. He died when I was 12.

Well 'plaid' by The Boston Globe, the Boston Red Sox, and the Tartan Army.

The longest day... Sunset on the Clyde, 1961, from George V Bridge. Happy solstice to all my fellow pagans. Picture: Doveson2002/BlackHawkFilms

Nacht II www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2a7...

Ok, so it is Otis but it's www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Hy...

Night,,, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fju...

Otis wrote this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Hy...

Listen to this late 70s burner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYeC...

FB reminds me that, five years ago today, with the lifting of Covid restrictions, myself and Robert 'Bobby Bluebell' Hodgens paid our first visit to a pub in over a year. Thankfully, we remembered how they worked, and drank copious quantities of Guinness.

Highlight of my rammed local, where it was six-deep at the bar, the unprompted chorus that came up at every water break: 'Oh, you canny throw yer granny aff the bus...'

As Irvine Welsh writes; "It's the hope that kills you". Doughty defence, but hee-haw in attack. Who have we got next? Oh, Jesus!

Eyes on the prize Scotland.