Jan 29th, 2008
We hosted an entertaining Burns Supper on Friday night. Along with the address to the haggis piped in by our downstair’s neighbour (and which proved to be quite tasty) many Burns poems (my personal favourite being the epic Tam ‘o Shanter accompanied by howling wind and a crackling fire) and even some late night singing. [...]
To get to our allotment we can simply head up the Kelvin which runs past our flat via the botanic gardens and through some of the less salubrious areas of Maryhill with tags extorting the value of various ‘young teams’. While it is a bit grey at the moment in summer I think it will [...]
Jan 24th, 2008
Our friends Lyn & Craig had delivered a bounty of produce from their allotment last summer, converting a decrepit plot into a functioning garden. However the purchase of a house in the ‘burbs with its attendant garden had lead them to share their space with us this year. The allotments sit on a hill on [...]
With a rare combination of sunshine and an early rise we explored more of the Forth & Clyde canal on our first weekend back this year. Winding through the somewhat seedy industrial past of Maryhill (below), through the less than salubrious Possil – avoiding some of its more famous residents – we made it past [...]
Jan 22nd, 2008
Sorry for the absence – Chhay has been hogging the ‘puter looking up real estate as our landlord is selling our fabulous flat
To recount, a brace of Chhay’s french relatives popped over across the new year to briefly take in the delights of Glasgow and the heady atmosphere of Edinburgh’s [...]
Jan 10th, 2008
Our only small escape over the Christmas break was for a couple of days to Dunoon – a small former seaside holiday town on the Firth of Clyde very similar to Rothesay (including being home to a new jmarchitects school).
We stayed at a colleague’s little cottage in a village called Sandbank on the outskirts of [...]
Jan 6th, 2008
Continuing our partyish season up to Christmas, our friends Mike & Emma took us all to catch up on the famous Christmas tale ‘It’s A Wonderful Life”, which by some quirky twist of fate (or general avoiding of Christmas movies) none of us had seen before. Our favourite movie watching institution the GFT (Glasgow Film [...]
Apologies for the lack of posts – I haven’t actually been busy just never got around to posting while relaxing through the break. A few catch up posts from before Christmas should follow this one.
Having kicked off our 12 parties of Christmas season with our hall party we followed up with a much milder event [...]