Crikey, the bar at the corner just below panel 1 used to be my local in the late 80s – The Belle now, then it was The Western.

I once had a chat with a guy there who claimed to be a writer, so I asked what he was writing. He had 2 books on the go… a novel about a guy who takes a glasgow bus to central america[1] (“cool cool, what’s the other one”) … and a history of the glasgow corporation buses. Those sound like works in progress I said, how do you support yourself – thinking about how Patreon might yet be decades away. “I work as a bus driver,” he said.

[1] I’ve often wondered if the guy was really Paul Laverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%27s_Song