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Working my way through the Red Riding Quartet.Brutal.Leaves a taste in your mouth of Spam Fritters,large whiskies and Vauxhall Viva exhaust fumes.

Some menswear establishments spring to mind;

Wrygges ,Dunn and Co. ,Hepworths ,Fosters and Mr Bojangles.

It seems that Pollokshields is a disproportunately no-go area in relation to violence, rape and murder if you are an ethnically native Scot or similar. The Kris Donald Murder, the murder of Irishman William McKeenan and the rape of a working girl by two Sikh Holy Men tells us that if you are a nati...

Yes

Dixons and Currys had several non out of town branches around Glasgow by the early nineties Parkhead,Trongate,Argyle St,Sauchiehall St,where Pret a Manger is now,Union Street,Shawlands,Victoria Road and further afield in Clydebank,Hamilton,Motherwell and Paisley.At one time,around 1994, the Argyle S...

Is that not the name of a King Crimson album?

Love Maxwell Park,Fotheringay Road and over into Pollokshaws Conservation Area

Hate St Enoch Square,waste of a great space.

A risotto as nature intended.Lovely.

Lone Groover wrote:

floweredpig wrote:Didnt they have a Big Muff one?

A Big Muff and a Pie!

Didnt they have a Big Muff one?

There is a guy at Strathclyde University Dr Colin Clark who has written several books about Romani migration and Social Anthropology,a lot of it is available on the internet and is seen as the foremost expert these days,not least by himself.

Doorstop is spot on,Euston Arch.Passed it yesterday morning.

Yes i see what you mean.I spent a lot of my morning brown bagging the blue sky because at 5pm we had to head rush to see what good looks like when its under your own blue sky.
Needless to say i went home instead.

The finest expresso i have tasted anywhere is the wee Italian Cafe in Central Station up by Platform 9 and 10,its name escapes me at the moment,not bitter just the right amount of crema and full of flavour.
Try it.

Friends of ours opened a Juice Bar on Kilmarnock Rd a few years ago at it was shut within 6 months,according to them the profit margin was massive but the customer flow was tiny.Sell a few when people are waiting for the bus in the morning,a few to the schoolchildren at lunchtime and that was about ...