tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post827603934996683111..comments2024-03-28T10:14:23.792+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: SCOTLAND, BEST PART OF ENGLAND.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-78970023991202885222013-12-14T19:18:32.878+00:002013-12-14T19:18:32.878+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.heinrich bowlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-68236292126881829812013-12-14T16:43:19.498+00:002013-12-14T16:43:19.498+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.lord low-risenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-113302275848311872013-12-13T12:31:47.990+00:002013-12-13T12:31:47.990+00:00LLR,
It says 'Leave your comment', not &#...LLR,<br /><br />It says 'Leave your comment', not 'Leave your faux-intellectual diatribe'.<br /><br /><br />VincentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-76081092776433076002013-12-13T00:26:41.099+00:002013-12-13T00:26:41.099+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.lord low-rise (part two)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-5273756685636025292013-12-13T00:25:08.775+00:002013-12-13T00:25:08.775+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.lord low-rise (part one)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-53246958616292242392013-12-12T04:43:44.672+00:002013-12-12T04:43:44.672+00:00There was programme on BBC Four recently, about Gl...There was programme on BBC Four recently, about Glasgow, its architecture and town planning history: "The Bruce Plan for Glasgow".<br /><br />It was very interesting but lead, on my part, to a bout of angry, TV directed shouting and fist waving.<br /><br />A lot of apparently well-intentioned, Modernist drivel that called for the complete demolition and rebuilding of the entire city centre. Everything, even - and perhaps especially, who knows - those buildings for which it is now be best known and regarded.<br /><br />I was left with the impression that, at the time, there was a kind of mystical belief amongst Modernists architects that building tall residential blocks would itself lead to cleanliness and social order.blackholesunsetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85872613862784581912013-12-10T23:07:59.038+00:002013-12-10T23:07:59.038+00:00That Kelvingrove museum is pretty amazing inside a...That Kelvingrove museum is pretty amazing inside as well. I went to the Vetriano art exhibition last month and couldn't believe the splendour of the place.<br />The People's Palace has a good exhibit of the Red Row flats that were finally demolished. They started like most of the 60's and 70's tower blocks....modern and roomy compared to the slums of the gorbals etc but soon ran into problems when used as dumping grounds for druggies and life's flotsam.tobernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-1691757870533332102013-12-10T11:06:46.696+00:002013-12-10T11:06:46.696+00:00Well I used to be proud that I came from Bradford....Well I used to be proud that I came from Bradford.<br />Now I am pleased I left it when I did.(65 years ago)Alphonsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54013074972263010402013-12-10T11:05:34.442+00:002013-12-10T11:05:34.442+00:00The jocks are their own worst enemy.
My father-in-...The jocks are their own worst enemy.<br />My father-in-law was a proud (aren't they all) Aberdonian and although he was emotionally right wing he slavishly voted Labour even though he knew it did him no good.<br />He was one of the trawler men who got screwed in the cod wars - he died before the government eventually decided that the workers deserved paying off as well as the fleet owners.<br />His widow lived long enough to be told that she would get some money but died before the cheque arrived. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14928302469565286855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38492965109020283382013-12-09T17:40:08.673+00:002013-12-09T17:40:08.673+00:00Why do you call her 'whisky Maggie' Mr Ish...Why do you call her 'whisky Maggie' Mr Ishmael?<br /><br />Did she drink a lot?<br /><br />Vincent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-68587201895461504352013-12-09T14:55:49.324+00:002013-12-09T14:55:49.324+00:00The thought of being on 3rd or 4th generation Nesb...The thought of being on 3rd or 4th generation Nesbits with all the deformed and mutated, chemically diminished and booze fuelled ravages that have come from their buckfast bonking kind of fills the void between reality and paranoia – it’s not nuts to be scared to hell. There was a spate of temazepam indulgence in my 2nd of college – went to Hull – but somehow I missed the start of it so just watched my mates completely lose a week – it was funny at the time but when they sobered up and genuinely had forgotten the whole week I think everyone realised – perhaps not, no, perhaps treat them as slightly different to your bog standard class A’s and B’s.<br /><br /> I think Hull’s got a similar problem to Glasgow – most definitely a sleeping giant – but they’ve segregated the town in extremis. Massive council estates set away from the rest of the town and largely ‘normal’ places elsewhere. I’m glad it’s been chosen as a city of culture – not much art deco there but the old town is awesome – loads better than poncey York or Chester – but you genuinely feel like you’ve wandered back in time somehow, wandered through the time tunnel where geography takes over as the estuary totally dominates everything – it’s fricking huge! It’s like the buildings have been formed to cope with the physics of using the river to trade with the rest of the world – totally utilitarian and yet built to the height of engineering skill as they could never envisage that the river would become redundant. I guess conceiving of oil tankers even 100 years ago was cuckoo land and freighters even more so. <br /><br /> My best chum from school went to Liverpool Uni and it amazed me that the 2 towns were so variant in their economics. Liverpool has always been slighted as being a sink hole but in comparison with Hull it was like Monaco or something. They really have traded on their famous bands and the proliferation of showbiz dudes whereas Hull’s got err..Larkin, The Beautiful South and The Fine Young Cannibals – hmm..<br /><br /> Yeah, should visit Glasgow. As you say about Edinburgh – it defo feels like a foreign town. One of my exes went to Glasgow Uni and she always said it was lovely. I went to Vatersay for a couple of years for A Level biology and have always had it in mind to retire up there. Someone’s just bought an island round there for £500,000 which, frankly, is a giveaway. If I lived in London and had bought a house 20+ years back – I’d have retired already. Mind you, I guess I’m totally biased in that if I’ve got an 8 iron and a hip flask of whisky – I’m good for hours. <br /><br /> 3rd generation Nesbit – yeah, that’s gonna hang for a while - bbrrrrrrr<br />DtPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-71714846946228965612013-12-08T23:09:22.858+00:002013-12-08T23:09:22.858+00:00Worked in Glasgow for a few weeks in the early 80s...Worked in Glasgow for a few weeks in the early 80s. There were no modern glass/concrete buildings I remember, but these modern structures could be located anywhere and don't define a city.<br /><br />What I remember are many fine victorian buildings, a legacy of mercantilism and civic pride - though no doubt the former corn exchange is now a dole office.<br /><br />However, the many fine buildings were in stark contrast to most of the population who seemed like extras from a Mad Max movie.<br /><br />Liverpool was very similar. An alien race populating a once fine city.<br /><br />Maybe this was a glimpse of the future?Mikenoreply@blogger.com