A week after attending the Go Ape Public meeting, Frances and I were at another public meeting, this time on the future of our local ‘town centre’ of Shawlands, in the heart of Glasgow’s south-side. It was organised by the excellent G41 local news organisation, and very well attended - I’d estimate between 200 and [...]
The Save Pollok Park campaign sent out an e-mail this morning highlighting a number of issues surrounding the Go Ape proposal for the historic North Wood. The big news was that my local constituency MSP, Nicola Sturgeon, has publicly come down against the proposal in a letter to The Herald. At the recent Public meeting [...]
I’ve blogged a number of times about the Go Ape proposal (here on the consultation, here, and here), and last night went along to the Save Pollok Park public meeting. The Herald does a much better job at summarising it than I can manage (and believe me, I tried). The BBC is also starting to [...]
My piano teacher has given me a flyer for the winter concert from her orchestra (in which she plays the viola): St James Orchestra, Paisley. I thought I’d spread the word to any Glasgow residents who might be interested. It takes place this Sunday (25th November, 2007) at St James Church, Underwood Road, Paisley (map [...]
So I did succumb, and picked up a shiny iPhone on Saturday afternoon. I gather that the Glasgow store had somebody queuing from the morning on Friday (I just can’t understand that level of expectation), but certainly would have been shocked myself it there had been much of a shortage: Apple have had almost six [...]
Via Southside happenings I see that the new Silverburn shopping centre in Pollok opens today. I’ve had the miserable experience of visiting the Tesco supermarket that opened some time back on a couple of occasions (vast impersonal space with narrow lanes and strange availability of certain items), and often wondered when the main centre was due [...]
Two separate matters, but the same issue: Delays. First up, we decided a while back that we needed to get our slate roof replaced. For our own reasons, we didn’t progress it particularly quickly. With a crap summer, and a calm few weeks, it didn’t seem to have been a bad decision. Then getting quotes took [...]
