Robert & Rab

So thankfully that’s January over - and boy, what a year that was! The first month of 2025 also saw a new mural going up in Millar Street, honouring a 1980s and ’90s ‘iconic’ Glasgow street artist...

Driving Home for Christmas

Well, not so much as Chris Rea’s sliding doors seasonal hit (www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZq762v-DuA) would have it, but more like catching the No. 88 from Glasgow’s Buchanan Bus Station to Harestanes,...

Comfort and Joy

At this time of the year, Joy can have many meanings - such as here in this image, with a simply hand-painted Duke Street back-lane sign among the bins pointing towards a church-organised food bank....

The Black Stuff

In late 2020, the legendary Glasgow west end Irish pub, Kitty O’Shea’s (kitty-osheas.com), on Great Western Road, commissioned Frodrik (frodrik.uk) to breathe new life into the gable end of the...

Brat

I’ve seen “Brat” daubed around - such as here, in my local ‘hood on the Vicky Road - just about everywhere over the last couple of months, and now it's officially Collins Dictionary word of the year....

A Ghost Story

Ghost signs are often seen as haunting reminders of a bygone age. Some are so faded the writing can hardly be deciphered, others still vivid reminders of the colour and variety that high streets once...

The Last Bookstore

Designed specifically for all you bibliophile Bacchus's out there, last week a new bar opened its doors on Hope Street, right in the heart of the city centre. The Last Bookstore offers a ‘visual...

T-I-double-gur-er!

"T-I-double-gur-er! That spells Tigger". And that would be Tigger as in the ironic, mischievous, energetic tiger with the over-bouncy personality - both literally and figgeratively! - originally...

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

We all need a little Talking Heads in our drab lives, and this was the case when I recently wandered down Glasgow’s Trongate and popped my head into Social Recluse (social-recluse.myshopify.com) on...

Hammerin' Man

A new sculpture called “The Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow” is the latest attraction in Port Glasgow, where many would possibly argue it is the only attraction in Port Glasgow! It was installed in late...

Tories Barred

It was either sheer genius or complete madness on the part of the person who decided that there was ever the possibility of a stage adaptation of Lanarkshire author and broadcaster Damian Barr’s very...

The 42 Paradox

Tiers For Fears

Bossing It

Death, Taxes, Magnus & Hikaru