A message from the streets of Glasgow…

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Things I’ll miss my daughter saying wrong… Noodles the reindeer Hunk smash! Piggy pig (guinea pig) Buona potato (Buon appetito) Bubbles (her own invention for a fart)

Fife skies

I’ve found my new favourite mug. Me and feathers are going to have some great tea breaks together.

Achieved a holiday this year. As a freelancer! Still can’t believe it, and got this memento to remind me.

I love this so much. I have no idea how it got on my phone or who made it.

As it’s impossible to see a woman over 40 achieve anything, it’s good to use art to imagine it.

I had a wee chat with a stranger today because I stopped and took a pic of this mural. It’s at the maternity hospital where my daughter was born. We both talked about how much we like it. It made a sunny day brighter.

Kenmure Street, Glasgow. Four years ago. Ordinary people stopped what they were doing to protect their neighbours. No strangers. Happy Kenmure Street Day ✊

Alice Neel, Passover and Easter, 1982, Oil on canvas, 48" x 32" (Location unknown)

Superb article Dani! For those unable to access, please consider filling out/sharing our survey aimed at improving our knowledge of lost and endangered fairs in Scotland. You can access it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Fairs are an accretion of centuries’ of collective memory, their identities bound up - historically, aesthetically, emotionally - with the land on which they stand." I loved writing this @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on fairs & the fight to save them. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509695...

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@jackob1.bsky.social @milesofgray.bsky.social here to say Scottish zeitgang exists! We appreciate your correct pronunciations of Edinburgh and Glasgow. And fringe fest recommendations- anything to narrow down the thousands of shows. Cheers!

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:

I returned to my own substack this week with musings of fascism on film. Do you remember the first Nazi you saw on screen? How did films of the past bring us warnings for the future? I take a look at a film that shook me to my childhood core; Au Revoir Les Enfants. open.substack.com/pub/emmalenn...

This episode feels timely and much needed. How to keep creative when the world is burning? Not just good advice for writers, but anyone in the arts.

If there’s a better Valentine’s night than Severance, served with an aperol spritz then I don’t wanna know.

I recommend!

Looking for good ideas for storage by the front door and the internet tells me the solution is either a tardis or just keep one coat.

I have to walk up a lot of steps but teaching at Napier rewards you with the best views.

Yup, they changed my sub to £104, don’t get caught out!

Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School #womensart

Apple TV fast review: Severance 2- great so far. Time Bandits- so much potential but disappointing bandits. Doc about the Enfield poltergeist- great production but underlying subtext of marginalising working class families not really addressed. That is all.

A labyrinth sequel? Piece of cake…

Strange week where I’ve tried to avoid the news and binge watched Queer Eye for the feel goods, then self sabotaged by watching Threads for the first time on BBC 4. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I was enjoying audio books on Spotify until it cut off abruptly and asked for a top up fee like it’s the 2000s. So do I wait ten days or pay the price of a book to top up?

“The Scottish fairground is a culture, a knowledge base, a lifestyle, and a witness to how Scotland likes to play and unwind over the centuries. Though you might not always notice us, you’d miss us” https://theferret.scot/govan-showpeople-court-appeal-against-eviction/

Imagine being the person who cancels Sesame Street and just living your life after that

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Always love a book with a pull out map! (Even better a pull out dialectogram)!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, just covers. 📚 I’m going to do 2 per day so I can wrap this up for Christmas! Let’s start with this badass children’s book. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi.

A reminder to please pay your freelancers before popping off for the holidays otherwise Santa won’t visit you and you will be doomed to live in a forever-winter with no Christmas and Mr Tumnus will be turned to stone.

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I’m loving this prop book from my episode of River City tonight, named after my wee girl. Don’t bother googling as it’s not real but any children’s publishers wanting to make it for real lemme know!

Behind door number two of the Scarred For Life advent calendar is the startling, shocking LA CABINA. You'll never look at a phone box in quite the same way...

The Bell is well worth reading for all Glaswegians… even the pretendy ones over the council borders. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/should-glasg...

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I can’t tell you how excited and over joyed I am for this project…!

This would be a dream! At the moment my weekends are full on improv classes with my 4 year old as the teacher and I’m failing hard.

I think we’ve reached peak wholesome TV with junior task master. It could have been full of excruciating theatre kids but they’re all brilliant little weirdos. I might have been too jealous to watch as a kid though.

Ooya! I showed the 80s Narnia to my 4 year old and she loved it. But can we get away with…

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1. Saturday girl for village craft shop Very Crafty 2. High school "work experience" was walking a donkey round a park in Kirkcaldy 3. Factual TV development hell demon 4. Comedy editor for The Skinny 5. GFT Box Office

I’m going to add a pic to my first post. Today I took the family to Stirling Castle. Last time I was there was some sort of national holiday for the premiere of Braveheart. Wild scenes in those ancient days.