Police were called to a Willy Wonka event in Glasgow after angry parents demanded refunds of their £35 (US$44.37) fee. Organizers House of Illuminati had promised a "journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises at every turn" but discovered a sparse warehouse with a bouncy castle. The Independent has more.
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Some legend lorry driver keeps parking in front of the forced birthers harassing people outside the family planning section of the hospital in Glasgow
Hey parrot people in #Glasgow: do you or someone you know have some idea where I might find a bird sitter? I've a thirty year old #SenegalParrot in need of care from time to time. I haven't been able to find anyone.
Please boost for a wider audience! Thanks!
Hey, Glasgow-local people, want to do an experiment? Come into my lab and have your eyes tracked while I study how you process sound and syntax, predict meaning, and encode memory!
One hour, and I pay £15 cash in hand.
Boosts welcome (especially people on Glasgow/Scotland-related servers!)
Edited to add link: Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/46AtS0ikaj
#Scotland #Glasgow #linguistics #experiment #psycholinguistics #academicChatter
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Archie Hind (1928–2008), author of THE DEAR GREEN PLACE (1966), was born #OTD, 3 June
“The only other 20th-century novel I know that places a writer’s struggle in an equally well-imagined city is Nabokov’s THE GIFT”
—Alasdair Gray
https://www.scotswhayhae.com/post/with-hind-s-sight-a-review-of-archie-hind-s-the-dear-green-place
Love this sign on the road up to Dennistoun Public Library in the East End of Glasgow (the building in the background of the photo).
#glasgow #dennistoun #library #libraries #dennistounpubliclibrary #sign #streetart #books
Behind the Scenes Tour at the Mitchell Library
14 June, Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Free, ticketed
An exclusive guided tour of the Mitchell Library – one of Europe’s largest public libraries. Dawn Vallance, Principal Librarian at the Mitchell Library, will lead a tour of the vast back stacks of the Mitchell, not usually accessible to the public.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the-scenes-tour-at-the-mitchell-library-tickets-1374282378589
#Scottish #literature #libraries #architecture #history #Glasgow #MitchellLibrary
Love this new sign on the Clyde Walkway, but it definitely falls into the Keep Glasgow Weird category. It's one of a number of signs inspired by Science Fiction movies around the city's Science Centre created by A Sign of Humour.
#glasgow #keepglasgowweird #streetart #glasgowstreetart #signs #godzilla #finniestoncrane #ovohydro
Afro-Scottish Poetry Event 2025
25 July, Glasgow. Tickets £0–£10
A multicultural evening of poetry, music, & storytelling that celebrates African & Scottish identities through powerful performances. Created & curated by Chisom Okoronkwo with U Belong Glasgow
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afro-scottish-poetry-event-2025-tickets-1396145632169
#Scottish #literature #African #poetry #storytelling #performance #identity #Glasgow
My childhood passes on a bicycle
Down West Coats Road, beneath our sycamore
That filters July sunlight through the slow
Sidereal quiet of the suburb…
—Robert Crawford, “Cambuslang”
published in SELECTED POEMS, (Jonathan Cape, 2011)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/362438/selected-poems-by-robert-crawford/9781446484227
Now online: “The Tree that Never Grew: A Literary Journey Through Glasgow’s History” – Annika Sinner’s talk for Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz’s READING SCOTLAND series, given on 27 May 2025
The representation of India created by John Board on the 1887 Doulton Fountain on Glasgow Green. Designed for the 1888 International Exhibition, it's the largest terracotta fountain in the world. It features Queen Victoria at its summit, while at the bottom are representations of the four components of her empire: Australia, Canada, South Africa and India.
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#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #glasgowgreen #fountain #restoration #doulton #doultonfountain #india
My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)
Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the Poetry Archive:
She’s goat her legs oot –
her foldin plastic chair
oan the gress at Glesga Green –
an her airms an enough
creamy dimpled bosom
tae please Renoir…
—Sheila Templeton, “Glesga Fair”
published in Songs of Other Places: New Writing Scotland 32 (ASL, 2014)
Happy Fair Weekend to all the Glasgow Fairies!
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #Glasgow #GlasgowFair
https://youtu.be/HlNGI4LbAto?si=hnbshEeAuBE2Ak-5
La meva #CançóDelDia per al divendres 18 de juliol és aquesta del #LewisCapaldi #Glasgow #Pop #Soul 🔵⚪!
Today, 20 July, is World Chess Day
Episode 2 of the Alasdair Gray Archive’s UNLIKELY OBJECTS MOSTLY looks at Alasdair’s chessboard & the part chess played in his practice, uncovering the game’s pivotal role in the making of his Hillhead Subway mural & the novel POOR THINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #PoorThings #mural #murals #publicart #Glasgow #Chess #WorldChessDay
Come all ye lovers and affairs,
singles, discrete souls, and bears,
straightest of straights, bentest of bents,
carbolic scrub, Armani scents…
—Edwin Morgan, “G.G.L.C.”
A poem composed for the opening of the Glasgow Gay & Lesbian Centre, 1995
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Pride #PrideDay #InternationalPrideDay #LGBTQ
Afro-Scottish Poetry Event 2025
25 July, Glasgow. Tickets £0–£10
A multicultural evening of poetry, music, & storytelling that celebrates African & Scottish identities through powerful performances. Created & curated by Chisom Okoronkwo with U Belong Glasgow
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afro-scottish-poetry-event-2025-tickets-1396145632169
#Scottish #African #literature #poetry #storytelling #performance #identity #Glasgow #AfroScottish
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Today we are again hearing about attacks on #Dnipro and #Kharkiv.
How would you feel if it were #Birmingham or #Glasgow?
Compassion is an expression of our humanity!
The attackers are acting inhumanely – let us be different, let us help:
Check whether you can support the Ukrainian government's #SkySentinel donation campaign to protect the civilian population of #Ukraine from #Shahed drone terror.
Spread the word:
Sky Sentinel: fundraiser for peaceful nights!
Yee-haw, 26 July is #CowboyDay 🤠…
Bud Neill’s newspaper comic strips (1949–1956) are one of Scotland’s most notable contributions to cowboy fiction, featuring Lobey Dosser, the sheriff of Calton Creek; his 2-legged horse El Fideldo; & resident masked villain Rank Bajin
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lobey-dosser
#Scottish #literature #comics #comicstrips #Glasgow #20thcentury #lobeydosser #publicart #cowboy #cowboys