Why are there SO many fires destroying historical buildings in Glasgow? Tonight’s tragedy is just the latest.
@glasgowbell.bsky.social mapped them. ‘With every conflagration there are whispers that there’s slightly more to things than meets the eye’.
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Old photo from 1981 down Union Street in Glasgow, the domed building on the right the one which was destroyed in a fire last night.
This is the building destroyed in the fire last night, an iconic Glasgow streetscape demolished by a vape shop.
Utterly depressing watching updates of fire destroying another building in Glasgow city centre. Smoke from it visible from all over the city.
That's exactly it.
Fuck VAR
Goalscorer at Paisley: VAR official
By chance I read this while I was on the train to Dundee yesterday, which was fitting.
Nothing to do with me...honest.
It's an entertaining way to play.
The Tay Rail Bridge stretching 3.5km to Dundee.
What remains of Balmerino Abbey, active from the 12th to 16th centuries, three arches of the chapel.
Looking downhill to the ruins of Ballinbreich Castle and the River Tay beyond.
The houses lining the high street of Newburgh, the final village on the Fife Coastal Path route if taken anticlockwise.
Newport-on-Tay to Newburgh to finish the Fife Coastal Path today in the sunshine. The whole 180km route visits the varied history of the kingdom, from former collieries to ruined castles, golf courses to fishing villages, landmark bridges to caves with prehistoric carvings. I've enjoyed that.
I'm not quite up to speed on all the rugby points, but does this mean that whoever wins the Ireland v Scotland game next week, will then be cheering on England against France? Is that how it works?
Yes. Was thinking of trying to get one to do it all again.
I ♥️ David Byrne. Another fantastic performance from possibly the most famous Son of the Rock.
Managed to catch Secret Agent at the cinema this week. Glad that I did, enjoyed that.
The Glasgow armadillo building reflected in the Clyde and flipped on its side.
One of the pedestrian bridges over the Clyde and the Marriott hotel reflected in the blue water under blue skies.
Graffiti mural of a woman in sunglasses at SWG3
Looking at things differently when the sun's out.
Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”
A poetry book edited by Niall O'Gallagher called 15 Glasgow Poems in English, the cover illustration of some colourful old Glasgow subway tickets, the price and station name on each one.
As it's World Book Day here's the wee book I'm reading just now, 15 Glasgow Poems (Gaelic with English translations). I often pop into the Gaelic bookshop at Mansfield Park and pick up some gems. I loved the book cover, 15 poems, just like the 15 stops on the Subway. Gerrit?
Ooft! Joani Reid claimed: “I am not part of my husband’s business activities.” However, two of her husband's consultancy businesses gave her consultancy business interest free loans with no fixed repayment terms.
Nearly 500 immediate job losses and legions of Brewdog’s early-stage crowdfunders left empty-handed. Totally punk
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This is an astonishing and extremely poor decision that ought to be reversed.
Text from Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami which reads "In fact, he fully expected to succeed in landing the portfolio for Foreign Affairs, on which he had long since set his sights. He was one of those political creatures of many faces, with no convictions, no great resources, no audacity, and no real attainments; a country lawyer, a handsome small-town gentleman, who maintained a crafty balance between the various political extremes, a sort of republican Jesuit and liberal champion of a dubious kind, such as spring up by the hundreds on the popular dunghill of universal suffrage. Thanks to his village machiavellianism his colleagues-all those misfits and losers who are elected deputy-considered that he was very able. He was sufficiently well groomed and well mannered, sufficiently familiar and agreeable to get ahead. He met with success in society, in the mixed, unsettled, and undiscriminating society of the senior civil servants of the day. People everywhere said of him: 'Laroche will be a minister,' and he too, with yet more conviction than everyone else, thought that Laroche would be a minister."
In Maupassant's Bel-Ami, many of the characters in his 19th century Paris are a corrupt, self-serving bunch. The main character, a journalist, thus described by Sartre "His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society." Sadly many of the characters are eminently recognisable today.
Clichéd Paris scenes, with the older Metro sign in front of the art deco signs of Ex Cinema
Silhouetted person in the crowd giving it laldy at a Belle and Sebastian gog
When you happen to be in Paris at the same time Belle and Sebastian are playing a gig in an art deco cinema? Oui, oui.
That Laura Kuenssberg article on the BBC website is bloody embarrassing. The Greens won a by-election and the analysis is to write a puff piece for F*rage.
Walking about today three women have tripped and fallen at my feet in completely separate incidents. I was not involved in any of these tripping or falling events, but am starting to feel somehow responsible.
Power to the pepple
They were almost getting their F*range victory interviews ready. No analysis or insights given, more a narrative that fits with the ongoing narrative being presented.l
Delighted to wake up and hear the results of the Gorton and Denton by-election. Absolutely not the result I was expecting from media reports before the vote.
Sandstone entrance to the tomb of Marie Curie nee Sklodowska, and Pierre Curie, their names carved beside the open door.
The Pantheon building in Paris, it's domed roof and colonnaded frontage at the top of a street under a blue sky. Zebra crossing in the foreground.
Came to The Pantheon in Paris today to visit the tomb of Marie Curie, buried alongside her husband and fellow scientist, Pierre.
I was just listening to her music last night and was lucky enough to see her perform in Glasgow about 10 years ago. She was as relevant and innovative as ever. Toutes mes condoléances.
What a time to be a Bodø/Glimt fan, eh? Fantastic performance.
