I didn't expect I would but I did!

Got up as the Scottish Referendum results started to roll in & stayed up till the result I hoped for was confirmed as "No".

How could we not be the intact United Kingdom? 3 of my grandparents, Billy, Isabella & Agatha were Scots (Frank was a Yorkshire man) & I was baptised, I found out relatively recently, in the Abbeyhill area of Edinburgh.

I feel like I should have had a say? Why didn't we all? I find Alex Salmond hugely arrogant & egotistical...but all we could do in this side of the Cheviots, is watch & hope.

I Tweeted about the United Kingdom becoming the Untied Kingdom. That's how it felt.

The voting seemed well in the distant future to start with, then was suddenly upon us, or do I mean them?

I got fed up with media spin, Scots, not even UK residents, pontificating, proselytising, about what was right!

No, which I think should have been the Yes case, started by winning a few smaller areas. Then Dundee, I think & then Glasgow went Yes. I worried. Then it was getting better defined as a No win. Alex Salmond disappeared, leaving his able & eloquent Deputy scurrying around with her minders.

I got back to bed around 6:30. Job done. Still no Salmond!

Having been booed louder & as a bigger bête noir than John Prescott during the debate about north west devolution as few years back, that that debate may well be resurrected us kind of retrospectively reassuring.

I'm sure the arguing isn't over...how & where do we want our power to be, are we happy with our access to power. What does it mean across the UK & it's constituent parts in the immediate?

Anyone seen Alex Salmond yet?