Everyone should take a weeks holiday in their home town. It’s amazing the things you see when you aren’t rushing along head down with places to be. It’s a real eye opener to see Glasgow as a tourist; the splendid architecture and friendly people, the spectacle and drama a big city and the concerned folk talking to street sleepers. Even the Polis seemed friendly.
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Thon Worlds
It begins early; uniform on, shoes polished, urns filled, car loaded and everything double checked lest we get a visit from the Idiot Box. It’s World Pipe Band Championship Saturday, the weather is just the good side of rubbish and we are on when God fearing people should be in bed. Continue reading Thon Worlds
Worlds Week
I have always sat at work the week before the World Championships and envied the guys who were sitting in George Square supping a latte and enjoying the atmosphere as the city filled with pipe bands from across the globe. Continue reading Worlds Week