It is like Top of the Pops here

Just a wee one. I am mostly busy eating an amazing The Cart (if you are in Hanoi hunt it out and live out all your sandwich dreams (I’m suddenly aware that maybe it is just me who has sandwich dreams)) pork and apple Banh Mi simultaneously writing a short story about Hanoi and urging novel-sized love along in Siberia.

Anyway, as a lady who loves lists I’m bloody delighted to be on a few end of year ones.

First, Louise Welsh named Tony Hogan as one of her books of the year in The Herald saying it should do for Aberdeen what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh.    

Then The List only put me on their Hot 100: Scottish Cultural Contributors list (if you click there is also a picture of Frankie Boyle with an otherworldly ginger beard). 

And as an extra early Christmas present (not that I deserve any after the bloody beautiful year I’ve had) to top it all off Tony Hogan made Foyles Top 10 books of 2012.

As-ever-surprised and chuffed beyond measure. There’s been so much to be grateful for in 2012 and I really, really am.  

Here’s a picture of a dog lusting after a sandwich in celebration of good things.