I am going to have to stop this......

...... but I seem to keep blipping ugly buildings despite the title of my journal . My only excuse is that I needed an early blip before leaving for an overnight meeting in Dundee - and this concrete monster is near my home.

This is not a prison or a warehouse or even a Tesco Superstore. It is now disused, but it was Stirling's swimming pool - The Provost's Pool. It takes local government to build like this - no one else would dare.

Stirling is not really as gritty as Tom Waits's voice