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I lived in that very building (124) for the entire time I was at primary school, and in a strange way it does make me sad to see it as it is now, and know it won't be there much longer. The actual houses inside were quite nice, two floors with massive living rooms by anyone's standards, and when I w...

why is there still a bit of the old centre there?

I heard that one too from Professor Winston in the "A Child of our Time" programmes. He was explaining why its more difficult for adults to learn a language than a young child and part of it was to do with the sounds used to form the words. Learning to make the sounds is done whilst very ...

my surname is surprisingly hard for some people to pronounce - darroch. rhymes with loch. much amusement when english call centre workers or such have to say it. often it comes out as some form of "mr dawatch?". what slightly annoys me though is the number of scottish people who say it as ...

frae mono. i don't know if it's there anymore, but remember kids, alcohol kills

haha, from frequent experience the #38 night bus seems luxurious in comparison. and that route can be... interesting at times (i had a white knuckle ride on there on friday at about 10am!) what are all the sounds of what sounds like cutlery being put in drawers? 8O on this topic, this is a great sit...

only started seeing the green hair bloke recently. but it's like every 2 days ow, all over the place. he came into a morrisons on the south side shouting his head off.

attention-seeking mentalist

shawlands, an area i've lived around for 20 years and never seen this before - this was taken from behind the beanscene. went round the alleyway it faces onto, but couldn't get any better views as there's another derelict building in the way that's sealed off and earmarked for redevelopment/demoliti...

I noticed a sign outside Asda Govan recently that said it wouldn't be open 24 hrs for a spell, anyone know why? They'll be installing the new self service checkouts, where they can use one person to control four tills! Getting their moneys' worth out of the wages there! They have to shut down all t...

i see there's one of those awful mini tesco's opening soon in a new block of flats in shawlands. with morrison's, somerfield, lidl, co-op, this and the huge pollok tesco all in close proximity, i worry somewhat for the numerous small and/or independent businesses in shawlands (which seem to be thriv...

further to my above post - was at it today. the building is much airier and nicer to walk about, although i'll miss the quiet dingyness. overall it's not all thgat different, thankfully. probably not the best circumstances to view it in, as it was ridiculously busy, and there was a band and dance tr...

i seem to have ended up with an invite to some kind of private viewing later today. its scheduled to be 4 hours long for some reason

the private gym went bust i think, i go past it fairly regularly and it's always shuttered, althoughg i've seen men in suits going in and out.


i think they got rid of the pool too, sadly, although i never went in once they took over. ahh my youth spent there failing to learn to swim

orphans!

depends how you define squalor i suppose, it does have a typical dodgy glasgow pub.