The Papa Hits Scotland

The Lord indeed moves in mysterious ways. Though on the evidence of this week, mainly along the M8. Yes, the Papal visit came to Scotland.
It was the biggest welcome for a religious leader since Tom Cruise's last film premiere.
Thankfully, it passed off without a hitch. Hallelujah.
Starting in Edinburgh, the Pope got an extremely warm welcome from the Queen.
Observers called it "momentous". Ian Paisley called it "confusing".
The two were singing from the same hymn sheet. Well, it was written in German.
Of course, security was tight, but fortunately they managed to wrestle Prince Philip's guns away from him.
I went for a view with Kirsty and Grace.Couldn’t resist it.The town was absolutely heaving as they say. However for The Papa the journey along Princes Street was particularly fraught with danger. Come on, Edinburgh city centre at lunchtime in a slow-moving car? He's lucky one of the Blue Meanie wardens didn't give the Popemobile a parking ticket.
Then off to Glasgow where Susan Boyle sang on stage and did Scotland proud.
It wasn't easy. She saw all those crosses and thought she was back on Britain's Got Talent getting buzzed off.
Good old SuBo, she's now performed in the presence of God. Makes a change from working for Cowell and performing in the presence of the Devil.
The visit wasn't without controversy. A key member of Benedict's entourage had to pull out for calling us a third world country. He's obviously been to Greenock. On the upside, we are getting a visit from Bono next week.
Bizarrely, they had the TV coverage on in my local pub where we ended-up later on. Now that was a revelation. One guy there heard SuBo singing How Great Thou Art and immediately piped up: "She must be talking about the paintwork on they holy pictures."
The clincher was the bit where the Pope put on a tartan scarf for his first stint in the Popemobile. A nice gesture, appreciated in a different way by an old boy at the end of the bar. "Brilliant," he said. "I see the big man's a fan o’ the Bay City Rollers".Cue loadsalaughter Ye cannae beat the Scottish welcome.
Amen to that.