Take a Walk on the Wild Side.
For some reason, the other half and I spent a good two hours wandering through Possil today. The fact that we made it out alive and refrained from sampling any of the local heroin is a testament not only to our courage and resolve, but also to our ability to ignore hysterical stereotypes of the neds people living in the poorer areas of Glasgow.
They have some really cool buildings there too, although the best was the site of a school plumped on top of solid rock that looks like a miniature Edinburgh castle minus the tourists and yodelling weavers you get on the Royal Mile.
And this mural was pretty good too - although it's worn away a lot in the past 20 years:
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Other than that, all is well - surviving work; eating well (damn, parsnip cake is good - though beetroot-chocolate cake is better) and grabbing free books. Unfortunately, my own lack of creative success bit me on the ass when I saw an exhibition in the Lighthouse by an old classmate.
Ah well, I'll just pretend I'm a late developer or something...
Dave xx
They have some really cool buildings there too, although the best was the site of a school plumped on top of solid rock that looks like a miniature Edinburgh castle minus the tourists and yodelling weavers you get on the Royal Mile.
And this mural was pretty good too - although it's worn away a lot in the past 20 years:
.
Other than that, all is well - surviving work; eating well (damn, parsnip cake is good - though beetroot-chocolate cake is better) and grabbing free books. Unfortunately, my own lack of creative success bit me on the ass when I saw an exhibition in the Lighthouse by an old classmate.
Ah well, I'll just pretend I'm a late developer or something...
Dave xx