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  • The art4you classes out in Killearn are really good. I've been to a few of their Saturday workshops but they do weekly afternoon and evening classes too. You'd probably need a car though! by CardiganThief (Thu 30th Sep 2021 11:46pm)
  • I live a few streets near there – on the nicer East side of the Central Station railway line. I don't ever walk around those streets West of the bridge after dark. I don't think I'd want to live on Wallace Street but once the big Barclays office opens up that whole neighborhood might improve? At the moment, there's no shops, pubs, amenities or anything around there – just warehouses and wastelands that look perfect for dumping murder victims. But it's close to the motorway and subway so depends what you're looking for really? There's definitely worse places to live in Glasgow. by CardiganThief (Fri 15th Oct 2021 9:53pm)
  • What's the connection that this public art has to people in Glasgow, and was local tax payers' money used to finance it? Is it supposed to commemorate a cultural or political link to indigenous American groups that our city has? by CardiganThief (Sat 20th Nov 2021 11:18am)
  • Yes! Since lockdown the place is an absolute riot. There's gangs of junkies and rowdy teenagers roaming around drinking openly at 1pm in St Enoch's square and an air of dilapidation, decay and edgy malevolence everywhere. It's worse than I remember it being even when I was an 11 year old getting the bus in from East Kilbride everyday in the early 90s to my school in Glasgow city centre. And I remember seeing grey-skinned alkies passed out on the pavement at 8am by Bridgetown Cross! I recommend you take a bus/train in and have a look around for yourself. I'm really not sure having a 17 year old girl living alone in the city centre is a good shout. Maybe somewhere on the near south side like New Gorbals or Mount Florida/Rutherglen might suit her better? That way it wouldn't be a long commute (and walkable during the daytime) but it's away from the worst of the crazy people. by CardiganThief (Thu 7th Apr 2022 2:01pm)
  • Yeah I think that's a good shout. Hope your sister enjoys her apprenticeship and meets some nice people! by CardiganThief (Thu 7th Apr 2022 6:42pm)
  • It probably was absolutely nothing, but none of us know that for sure. How can we know it wasn't a test run for an acid attack? Such things have happened in Glasgow before. You should absolutely report this to the police. Especially with the potential for there being a hate crime element to it. That way if anything more serious ever happens in the city involving a black mercedes, the police have leads and links to go on. by CardiganThief (Wed 27th Apr 2022 8:18am)
  • I seriously wouldn't do that! I rented a flat in Bridgeton one time and realised within 2 days of signing the contract that the place had a cockroach infestation. The guy below me was an alcoholic tramp and they were coming into my flat from his. The rental agency sent a guy round from Rentokill and he told me there were lots of cockroach infestations in Glasgow, especially around Govanhill, and one big cause of it was residents taking abandoned furniture in off the street. Furniture is often abandoned on the street because it's infested with cockroaches. Even if it isn't, it's going to be damp and mouldering due to Glasgow's rainy climate. If you're looking for cheap furniture, the big charity shops around Byres Road and Dumbarton Road sell furniture and will deliver it to your flat too if you don't have a car. Try the Salvation Army or British Heart Foundation shops, they have lots of good stuff. by CardiganThief (Sun 8th May 2022 7:16am)
  • Be careful about the upkeep of the flat. I signed a 6-month rental contract in a red brick new build on Main St (top floor) like 10 years ago at the Bridgeton Cross end (overlooking the car park across the road - might have been like number 24??). It was cheap and small, but handy for me as a full-time waitress in the city centre. It was also infested with cockroaches. They came in from the guy below me's flat. He was a hairy old jakey who used to drink on Bridgeton Cross and I found him passed out sprawled over his doorway in the close once around Christmas time coming home from a shift. His flat totally stank. When I had went round to initially view the flat it was fine (apart from a circular scorch mark on the living room carpet that looked like junkie activity but the carpet was replaced when I moved in). But within like 2 days I started noticing 'beetles' that were crawling up the walls and curtains. The Rentokill man that the landlord called out when I complained said that there was residue on the walls of cockroach killing spray, so the infestation obviously kept coming back from ground zero in the alky flat below. It wasn't the first time the bug killers had been out so that probably explained why the landlord was so quick in calling them out. I think the letting agency totally knew it was infested when I signed the rental contract! I stayed at my boyfriend's flat on Duke St pretty much after that first week so the 'cheap rent' was a total waste of money. There's not much fun lying in bed at night wondering if cockroaches are going to crawl over your sleeping body :( by CardiganThief (Sat 14th May 2022 8:58am)
  • I grew up in EK (Calderwood/St Leonard's area) and I reckon it's a decent place to raise kids. I moved away 20 years ago to go to uni in England but I still know people there. There are bad areas and a few delinquent families, but generally it is far better and calmer than Glasgow city where I live now. I'd advise actually going and checking out the street you want to live on at different times of day/week though. Does it have a nice vibe on a Friday/Saturday evening as well as a weekday afternoon? Would you be happy walking about outside after dark on the long winter nights? Maybe check out the nearest pub or restaurant and see what the locals are like, whether you like the ambiance etc. Not sure about West Mains but I think there's some nice old pubs and places to eat in the Village? I've lived and worked all over England (and abroad too) and EK would still be somewhere I'd consider moving to if I wanted to raise a family. by CardiganThief (Wed 15th Jun 2022 12:26am)
  • Maybe it's because the Glaswegian population is mainly immigrant from outwith the Strathclyde area? Like at the time of industrialisation when the city took off, the city absorbed a very high proportion of people from the Highlands and Ireland who spoke Gaelic rather than Scots. Not to mention there was industrial and shipping-based immigration to Glasgow from all over Europe and beyond – the Gorbals was filled with Eastern Europeans for example. I don't think Aberdeen and Edinburgh got the same intensity of economic growth or immigration boom during industrialisation after the 1707 union. Coupled with the fact that Glasgow's city elite were comparatively pro-British Union (because they saw American trade as an easy gateway to their enrichment), so there may have been a deliberate rejection of vernacular Scots and an attempt to be more 'English' in speech among the few upwardly mobile locals that did speak Scots? A lot of local British languages suffered because of this trend (eg. Cornish). The American port aspect may play a role too – don't big seaport cities tend to develop their own patois as there's such a mix of people passing through? Glasgow's idiosyncratic dialect could be an example of this. It's an interesting question. Glasgow is an interesting city with a fascinating history! by CardiganThief (Wed 15th Jun 2022 9:04am)
  • I've got one a whole Maplin Raspberry Pi starter kit set in a box, never used. Was a Christmas present from my brother years ago and I never got round to playing around it. DM me if it'd be useful. I'm in the Gorbals. by CardiganThief (Wed 22nd Jun 2022 8:54am)
  • Cool, good luck with the rocket launch! by CardiganThief (Wed 22nd Jun 2022 9:19am)
  • In Paul Sweeney MSP's formal letter to the Glasgow city council planning authorities (linked to in my original post), he mentions that the window panes were removed deliberately. I trust he knows what he's talking about. And let's face it – it happens all too often in this city. by CardiganThief (Fri 12th Aug 2022 5:34pm)
  • I don't think you can properly book any reliable taxis anymore, so you're going to be left stressing until the last minute whether one will bother to arrive at 3am and whether you'll miss your flight. Why not get a hotel at Edinburgh airport instead (the Hilton is within walking distance from the terminal, although obviously pricey), or failing that, check the Edinburgh bus/tram times to the airport and stay overnight at a cheaper hotel somewhere along the route? by CardiganThief (Tue 27th Sep 2022 7:36am)
  • Could it be a noise travelling through the river Clyde maybe from a building site or an overnight electrical generator? Water can carry low frequency vibrations really far from the source. I had a similar "hum" keeping me up at night two summers ago. My flat is in Laurieston, near the Clyde and near the Central station railway line (and also right above the subway tunnel), so I assumed it was railway works but usually when they keep me up at night they sound like obvious manual tools, and this was just a faint and steady ultra low pitched hum. It was louder in certain parts of the flat though, like the source vibration was actually causing the building itself to vibrate – I couldn't hear the hum in the street outside at all. It bothered me constantly for about a week and my partner thought I was going mental cos he couldn't hear anything. But then one afternoon, the hum stopped all of a sudden – right when the Transmit festival finished dismantling at Glasgow Green and that perma-fairground in St Enoch's square packed its shit up. I honestly think it was the electric generators resonating through the river and the subway tunnels and making my flat vibrate, no joke. by CardiganThief (Wed 23rd Nov 2022 11:55pm)
  • Beautiful work, I love how you've captured the colours, especially in the first two shots. Also impressed by how you managed to frame the South Portland St suspension bridge without its lingering mob of drug dealers on the Clyde St end. by CardiganThief (Mon 19th Dec 2022 8:41pm)