£ Sign Of The Times

Escaped the Veelage on Saturday and headed up to Ayr on the pretext of doing some Christmas shopping but some good company, a couple of bottles of Pinot Grigio and a nice dinner on Saturday night was the real reason.

Headed up the High Street this afternoon and realised just how dismal the bottom end is, not a soul to be seen as the photo depicts, I don't suppose the rather cool day and the rain helped much though.

The most depressing aspect was being able to find three money lenders all within the space of about a couple of hundred metres of one and other. I'm sure that they will not be providing their service free of charge either, if a widely advertised outfit on the TV is anything to go by, the APR on a couple of hundred quid for three weeks is only a mere 4000%

Perhaps I'll try to find a more positive image of the Auld Toon the next time I visit