try glasgow more
― mist of the beats (rip van wanko), Saturday, 30 October 2010 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Transport museum, if I remember rightly, is closed for relocation. Sorry to drop that wee bombshell.
Cathedral?
― argosgold (AndyTheScot), Saturday, 30 October 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
people's palace :D
― conrad, Saturday, 30 October 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Summerlee is a wee bit out the way but is an interesting (and free) way to kill a couple of hours. You get to go on a tram and down an actual dark scary mine.
http://www.visitlanarkshire.com/attractions/historic-heritage/Summerlee-The-Museum-of-Scottish-Industrial-Life/
― a fucking abortion (onimo), Saturday, 30 October 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
new lanark. annie mcleod experience will blow your mind.
― Truther Vandross (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 October 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
New Lanark seconded - I love that walk up to the Falls of Clyde. The Tenement House is pretty good, and handy for whatever's on at the CCA if you wanted to go there afterwards.
― Madchen, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
GOMA always worth a wander round. New Lanark thirded. I like the look of that Summerlee place, might suggest that as a trip for my brother's kids next summer.
If you have a car, Culzean Castle is a great wee day out. If you have National Trust membership, it's all free, but even without you can still just pay for parking and do all the walks and look at the deer and stuff. Our summer days out at Culzean alone more than justify the money we give the National Trust.
http://www.culzeanexperience.org/
Burrell Collection also worth a go, plus Highland cows in Pollok Park!
― ailsa, Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Spent a year living 25 miles from New Lanark - still have no idea what it is, but I've only ever heard good things about it.
Googling now...
― argosgold (AndyTheScot), Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, rather shamefully, I've never been to the fossil grove in Victoria Park. Go, and report back please.
The Botanics are lovely this time of year (if you can get a rain-free day), and you can try and get into the disused railway station.
We went to a wedding in New Lanark a few years back. It is absolutely lovely.
― ailsa, Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Good shout on the GOMA - back in the day I used to be one of "those" hanging around outside it, and I always got angry when I realised that I was the only one of my pals who ever actually went inside it. My week is already looking better now, thanks!
― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Pollok FC v Largs Thistle on Saturday afternoon in Shawlands; 2pm kick off, entry a mere £5!
― scotstvo, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Jedward doing the Christmas lights at Braehead on Thursday!
― ailsa, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Paisley has got Olly Murs and THE SINGING KETTLE turning theirs on a week on Saturday.
The Singing Kettle! I didn't know they were still active. Do you think it's unrealistic to hope I get picked from the audience to come on stage and sing with them as they do at their shows?
― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Sunday, 31 October 2010 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Zombie Walk today at 3pm in Kelvingrove Park.
― krakow, Sunday, 31 October 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, we're going to see Olly Murs to continue our tradition of going to support our local council doing something and then getting cold and going to the pub and missing all the acts :-) We do get an X Factor reject every single year now for the lights or the fireworks or both, but presumably boat pushed out too much paying for Olly Murs to afford one for the fireworks, and they've got, somewhat ridiculously, a Paolo Nutini tribute act.
Zombie Walk!
― ailsa, Sunday, 31 October 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Glasgow Zombie Walk 2010
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v14/p510887024-3.jpg
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v12/p446505621-3.jpg
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v14/p394194078-3.jpg
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v18/p36038875-3.jpg
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v11/p461499352-3.jpg
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v18/p1066075708-3.jpg
― krakow, Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
great photos!
― ailsa, Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, I just saw an advert for the new Sydney Devine album on the telly "available from record shops and woollen mills". Love Scotland.
― ailsa, Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks! It was great fun to watch - the costumes and dedication to the cause were a pleasure to behold.
― krakow, Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah gd fun pics kraks, zomb in pic 2 is esp impressive
have been following w/ interest ppl's tips for places to go/sights to see.... after four years here, still feel there are huge areas of the city i know nothing abt... keep meaning to buy an all-day bus ticket one day and go roaming w a map... living in dennistoun, my default 'trip' is the cathedral/necropolis... i love the views from the top of alexandra park, too
over time, i have become v attached to the rousseau and voltaire 2nd hand bkshop down otago lane, off kelvinbridge... it is proper old skool eccentric musty bibliophillia, books stacked everywhere floor to ceiling, the stock is gd and changes all the time, prices are mostly v fair, and the hippy tea shop round the corner does a delish pot of milk oolong
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Excellent pictures of the zombie walk!
― Madchen, Sunday, 31 October 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
tachai ovna is one of the greatest things about glasgow.
― jed_, Sunday, 31 October 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
... if you're a hippy. :D
― Madchen, Monday, 1 November 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Or if you like tea (I am not a hippy and I don't like tea. I've also never been in Tchai Ovna).
― ailsa, Monday, 1 November 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
you should go, it's other-worldly!
― jed_, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
midnight and thick snow in dennistoun... here we go again
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Woohoo!
― krakow, Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Alexandra Park, Dennistoun earlier today...
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs967.snc4/76020_10150322057730022_837550021_15878515_4878288_n.jpg
― krakow, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
wowza. nice composition too :)
― jed_, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks! It was rather lovely up there.
― krakow, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Everywhere looks lovely in the snow! Even Dennistoun :-)
― ailsa, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
v nice krakow. walking home at 3am or so last night i was sad to have used all of my disposable camera photos on people sitting around doing not much. now we have about six inches over here and it's both lovely and, when huge sheets fall off of the roofs, kinda terrifying.
(also encountered the loudest and freakiest thunderstorm i'd ever heard last night. and so did all of my friends who were woken by it. <3 u mad weather.)
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i didn't hear that.
― jed_, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Me neither.
I think I'm going to try cycling to a gig in the west end tonight. The main roads look clear but wet.
― krakow, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
oh no, i'm in dundee, sorry. shamefully using the glasgow thread as a scotland-wide thread here.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
gtfo!
(joke)
― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
:''(
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna go start a dundee thread and talk to myself.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno, maybe some dundonian junkie will keep off selling a laptop he's burgled off someone long enough to stumble across ilx.
― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
just thinking about dundee has me googling mcgonagall:
Ye sons of Great Britain, I think no shame To write in praise of brave General Graham! Whose name will be handed down to posterity without any stigma, Because, at the battle of El-Teb, he defeated Osman Digna.
― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, look at the Park! Which bit was that pic taken, over on the golf course?
― Madchen, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, over the far side, but at the top of the hill. It was completely untouched over there. I went tramping across acres of totally virgin snow on the golf course, even at midday. Awesome!
― krakow, Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't compete w krakow, but glasgow green was beautiful and wintry today:
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/Photo0008.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
The sunset this afternoon was stupendous. I was cycling back from Coatbridge to the East End and had to pull over to watch it across the snow-covered fields and misty tenements in all its blazing red and orange glory. Wonderful.
― krakow, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm in Glasgow next week, hopefully. Looking forward to some wintry scenes!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Out the back of our house along the Black Cart last week .
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5122/5262044324_80aac77309.jpg
― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh wow. Where is that ailsa?
― krakow, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Renfrew, just across the river from the airport, looking over towards Inchinnan.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Note to stalkers: it's not RIGHT outside my house.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
*takes notes*
― jed_, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link