For more than seventy years in a run down area of a Scottish city called Glasgow a noted compound existed upon the top of a hill existed a place called by locals mad old metal. Commonly known in this world as a scrapyard. Run down dirty and no match for clean modern on line parts today. Yet it still existed owned by a cranky septuagenarian named Gonfreid McLeish. Rusty metal and uneven wire and the obligatory German shepherd named Snooze, not as wild as he looked according to local children who regularly threw scraps for him. Every year that went by the metal in this compound seemed to drop to a darker shade of grey. more grey than rust, that is supposed to be within this mangled menagerie of mess what you could describe as treble sized round dustbin lids but without handles save for a smattering of holes atop of the lids.
“Wee scotty oan th’ wey tae schuil saw a lid chaynge shape tae a saucer ye see in th’ movies ‘n’ back again. Said hamish in th’ howf (pub).
Know one took a blind bit of notice except shrewd schoolchildren walking past this site to and from school they had noticed smattering’s of what appeared to be vortex lights forming energy of red to the harmony of green, all speckling and arcing then drawing back to the lid metal. The children would scamper home to mums and dads babbling their tales of spinning lights bouncing from oversized grey dustbin lids.
But mums and dads just said “Git awa’ ye wee tell talers its only a jingle jungle of metal but how wrong could parents be, it would be Christmas eve at midnight when slowly the grey lids in the scrapyard would slowly rotate to a spin struggling to rise colour vortexes digging into the surfaces of the lids. Curtains in the industrial terrace district of the city pulled apart, the lids then appeared not to be lids at all but rather something else and it was apparent to all who saw, that they were watching wee space peoples going home for Christmas after seventy years behind Mr McLeish’s scrapyard you see McLeish is an alien and the lids UFOs small to the human eye cleverly masked as they are bigger on and upwards across the sky of Glasgow and who would know it was an alien base in disguise…
