Big Tim:

"
Robin, what's all this about the Dear Green Place? Is this a reference to Archie Hind's 1966 novel of that name? If so, it's worth pointing out that "Glasgow" translates as "dear green place".
"

Bit like -- I think I might have picked up on it initially from AH.

-- no, I think it's independent -- wasn't the Archie Hind novel Burns? So were're prolly independently ripping Glasgow's bird-that-never swam [etc.]

[There's many a true word spoken incest -- is this an Archie Hinds joke?]

But it goes drifty -- Tirn na Voig and the Arran Isles and Hy Brazil.

The Dear Green Place is not so much Paradise as a personal paradise --where you feel utterly at home.

Somewhere you're allowed for a time, but not allowed back.

It makes sense to me.

Robin