July 2006

Comments please...

Following a wee bit of jiggery pokery, I've managed to get a comments link on my bloglets.

You'll see it appearing from now on if my wandering brain remembers to put it in, and whilst it's just a link to my contact page where you normally provide your comments, I've sussed that this makes it easier for you to get there.

So keep the vitriol to as minimum a level as you can, and I'll likely post the (no doubt edited to make me sound better) comments in upcoming bloglets.

Basically, I'm looking for reactions to my posts, any news on Glasgow you think everyone will be interested in, general guff about the place that's witty or otherwise, and well, anything really as long as it's relevant (yeah, like yer own posts Docherty). Also, if you're looking for more info from me or need any tips, you can do that too.

I look forward to the big wave of nonsense on the horizon...

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I'm back

Well, that's us moved into our swanky new house in the Glesga 'burbs. I'm beginning to look a bit like Tom Hanks already, what with my new neighbours and their jaunty stride and their suspicious ways and all. I'll be watching.

I'd provide you all with a nice wee photo, but given the level of hate mail I've been receiving of late (due principally to the complete dribbling tripe pouring out of my keyboard these days, wasting the time of many an avid reader seeking solace from more of the same), I think I'll give that a miss for personal safety reasons.

So anywho, I just thought I'd let you all know that I'll be back as soon as the boxes are unpacked and my thinking cap gets screwed back on.

In the meantime, thanks for your messages of support in this, the most stressful period of my life since that incident with the banana and a long garden hose.

Hmmmm...nice...

What did I say about shopping?

Last month I moaned about the increasing amounts being invested in the Glasgow shopping experience, and the resulting explosion of competition between the various City Centre malls and suburbian shopping meccas.

Now I hear that one of Scotland's biggest, St. Enoch Centre in Glasgow, is now going to undergo a £100m development. I mean what can we men folk do in the face of this onslaught of terror-driven retail?

I'm beginning to think that there's a cabal of rich housewives huddled round their teapot somewhere in Glasgow, plotting as we speak to invest their millions in such a fashion that all us men folk, and our hate of all things shop, feel we have no option but to up sticks and trudge our way out of the city, seeking solace in the quiet towns where we'll face nothing but a corner shop selling only tins and cheap booze, and a pub with a large TV connected to every football channel under the sun. With no cut-price sales, no torturous, winding aisles and their conveyor belt drag towards the till. Just a wee bit of peace and quiet on a Saturday afternoon.

Now that's utopia - none of your 'retail therapy' rubbish, and that's exactly what those conspiring housewives have been planning I tell you. Just watch out for them. They might seem innocent and busy with home-making, but it's all a front. Mafia-esque, that's all I'm saying.

Anywho, the new centre will have a cinema, new restaurants, and even bars and nightclubs, so I guess that's something. It's bascially going to create an even stronger City Centre in terms of pulling power if you're interested in that sort of thing, and yes, I'm sure in any event, despite my crying like a spoiled little baby, none of my moaning will stop Tracey from dragging me round the place every waking minute she has free.

When does the football season start again?...

World Famous Kelvingrove Museum Reopens

Following a particularly long three years after it closed for major refurb, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum of Glasgow reopens today.

This is one huge development for the City, basically given that when it closed in 2003 it was our most popular free tourist attraction.

Glasgow has grown and changed a lot since then and is able to offer to visitors a big bucket of brilliant, well, stuff (couldn't think of another 'b'), but when the Kelvingrove reopens it'll be set to rejoin the list of even Europe's top draws, never mind Glesga.

The website below gives you a detailed insight into the history of the museum and its magnificent restoration. It's pretty breathtaking just how much thought was put into the project, and once I get a chance I'll push my way through the crowds to see what it's now like inside.

The exhibitions and events that are there at the moment are Building Stories, a look into the actual restoration, Annual Art Competition for Young People, which is populated by work from Glasgow's talented kids, Mackintosh Festival Talks, all about that wee Charles Rennie fella wot built aw they big buldins an that, and soon there'll be Organ Recitals, which will be about the museum's world-famous organ that's now been beautifully restored.

Of course, you can take a tour around the place and take in the wonder of its architecture and the other galleries and artifacts inside, and who knows, you might find you end up spending a great deal of the day enjoying yourself...

To the Kelvingrove from the City of Culture - 'A Big Welcome Back Tae Ye'.

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