Every time I return to my home town, I return to somewhere different. Sometimes it’s the bulldozers and cranes that have done it. Sometimes it’s the dreaded council with one of their “plans”. Sometimes it’s progress, and sometimes – worst of all – it’s decay. Can I stop it? No. Can someone do better? I hope so. You’ve probably heard about some of the problems Aberdeen has faced recently. This week, for example, there have been talks to prevent the closure of the city’s John Lewis – if it does shut, there won’t be a single department store left. I think of Fraser’s, where everyone got their tellies, and E&M’s, where everyone got their school uniforms, and Debenhams, where everyone got their coffee and cake. I realise this is nostalgia talking, but sometimes nostalgia is a way of telling you that things are going wrong.