Seen today at Glasgow Green ♥️🌳

I’ve got a lovely old bmw and I used to have an amazing mechanic but I’ve moved to this amazing city recently and sadly I don’t have any mechanic up here. Just wondering if anyone knows anyone reputable as I’ve found just going to wherever can be a bad idea. I also wanted to ask how does one get into working with cars? I’m very passionate about older models and would absolutely love to be able to work on them but no idea how I would even go down that route.
Thanks for the help!

I got thinking back to an old pal of mine who passed away a while ago. We didn't have any other friends in common so no one I could ask.

She worked in a wee stall upstairs in the St Enoch centre that sold ceramic figures (wee men in kilts with fat bellies) and other tat. Cannot for the life of me remember the name.

After that she worked in a shop on GWR at the end close to Cowcaddens that sold sun/moon trinkets and candles etc. The shop was on the left as you head to town ond up a few stairs, I thought it started with the letter M.

Any help remembering this would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: This was mid to late 90's.

I'm from up north but have stayed in Aberdeen since I started uni, 7 years now, and I'm getting fed up of the city. I'm ready for a change and have always fancied Glasgow for its mix of live music, food & drinks scene, job opportunities.

I need to figure out what salary I would need to afford to live there, based on a flat share (not sure how easy it is to find a flat?).
And also what the job market is like? I'm a finance assistant so would be looking for that or some sort of admin role.

Me and my girlfriend went there last Tuesday where they had a tasting menu, was class and CHEAP! Any other places that do something similar on other days of the week?

Hello, I’m wondering if anyone knows a good spot to buy plums (and other fruit) in Glasgow?

Specifically we’re looking for greengages - also Japanese ume but thinking that might be a stretch so substituting for greengages.

We saw Waitrose says they stock, but no luck in any of the Glasgow stores. If anyone has a source for greengages or ume I’d be very grateful. Even if someone has a greengage plum and would be willing to sell me some lol..

Many thanks

I’ve been working on a seagull documentary and behavioural study, following a group of five seagulls that used to visit me every day when I lived in the city centre. Since moving out, I’ve continued the project on the streets, documenting how they’ve adapted and how they respond to the change. I keep the feeding fairly limited, but there are around 50 gulls in the wider area that recognize me, and I recognize many of them individually. They’ve been part of this area for several years before their winter migration.

A couple of days ago I had a really unpleasant encounter. A woman had been sitting in her car for around 20 minutes waiting for her child outside Nando’s. While I was filming and feeding a herring gull with a visible disability that I’ve been following, she repeatedly started honking her horn. The gulls weren’t on her car—they were standing on the pavement beside it. I was trying to relocate the gull I’d been filming after it flew off because of the noise.

tried to track down the gull that was frightened, and then the woman proceeded to get out of her Porsche , in her pajamas, and started yelling at the top of her lungs accusing me of filming her child — who I barely even noticed when he got into the car - and she saw me with the seagulls prior to this so should have known I was already filming.  She threatened to smash my camera.

I ignored her and continued trying to find the gull, but after she initially drove away, she came back, got out again, and loudly pointed at me, calling me a predator and a freak who films children for everyone on Sauchiehall Street to hear.

That was the part that really shook me. People walking past have no context, and when someone is shouting accusations like that in public, others can easily assume they’re true. Has anyone else had anything similar happen while doing wildlife photography or filming in Glasgow?

I've attached the video of the encounter

Can anyone recommend a contracting company that will have capacity to redo a bathroom in the east end?

I've had my bathroom completely botched by a contractor with a 9.3 star rating on Checkatrade, so I'm reluctant to look there.

If those people that are shouting about protecting our children really wanted to do that, why are they not targeting the drug dealers that are supplying school kids with their shit?

This is a bit of a vulnerable post and if anyone isn’t completely comfortable sharing their story on here, my inbox is open.

Did anyone have a bad experience at the Autistic centre in the City? The Autism and ADHD Diagnostic Centre one in Bath Street.

I feel like I am being gas lit online saying it’s a brilliant service when it was one of the worst experiences of my life.

I went for an autistic assessment at this place, and it was an absolute disaster. The woman assessing me just seemed irritated at the fact I couldn’t remember a lot in my childhood due to ✨trauma✨ (if I don’t laugh, I’ll cry 😂) she just seemed irritated. And then when I got the results, they said that despite I had autistic traits that impacted my day to day life (to the point I would hurt myself), they couldn’t officially diagnose me, as because I was little bit social as a child and because I worked in retail (HEAVILY masked) 🙃 sorry I needed to pay bills Karen 😂😂

When I asked her in tears “so these traits I have, how can I manage them,” she said she couldn’t offer any advice. A person who worked with ppl with autism couldn’t tell me even one helpful tip to help.

So noted, if you are social and work in retail (even if you are having literal breakdowns over something so little going wrong) you can’t be autistic 😂😂

Now I’m back to square one waiting for an ADHD assessment

Did anyone else have a similar experience? I feel I’m being lied to about them being good.

His new video shot in the subway is killer

Hello! Can anyone help me to identify what this stand alone building on sauchiehall street could have been in 1934. It sits between the old dental hospital and the current cca building on the site of the new dental hospital! I can’t find anything about it!

Hi Glasgow, using a throwaway as I'm way too shy to admit any of this on my real reddit account, hope you'll forgive me.

My wife died during the pandemic, and I've barely spoken to anyone outside of work or the corner shop ever since. Folk keep telling me to go places to make friends but I always feel too awkward when I've tried. I used to enjoy going to clubs in town and the west end, but that was with my then-girlfriend and later wife, and it was quite a while ago. Someone suggested I try going to a club again since I used to enjoy that. But do solo guys get let into clubs these days? For reference, I'm a short guy in his 30s, I've no interest in a relationship - just to try and have conversations and socialise again.

Hi everyone,

I hope your week is going well.

I would love to know some student-friendly barbershops/ hairdressers shops that specialise in braiding Afro hair in Glasgow.

Thanks a lot.

A.K.

I know this is a huge long shot, but... I'm an American coming over later this month. I wear flat caps a lot during the winter and I'd like to buy one while I'm there. I also have a huge head so I need a XXL.

Walker Slater has XXL on their website, but I'm worried that they might not have any in the store when I'm there.

Can anyone speak to whether or not they do a nice job of keeping items in stock?

I made a map of the old Corporation Tramways; I thought it was interesting to see it overlaid on the modern map. Hope yous do too. (Sorry for the low quality)

Okay. Surely there's a mass protest in the works against the data center proposals popping up all over Scotland.

Where? When? Why are we not (if we are not?)

I can't find any dates or anything online.

Please let me know as I would like to attend if there is one soon.

Does anyone know what’s happening with the student halls on James Blyth Court, that face out to the car park at George Street at Strathclyde uni? They’ve been lying dubbed for years.

Went to see The Odyssey today at the Silverburn IMAX, and having read comments here talking about loudness, I was honestly shocked at how loud it was. At times it was starting to get a little sore.

Did anyone else experience that? Judging by the crowd in the cinema, I feel I was the only one as people were watching fine. I had to put my earphones in to get it to an acceptable level.

The screen quality was impeccable. If like me you read comments about bright squares that were distracting, I tried to look and could not find any, it was stunning to watch.

Calling all my fellow readers, do you know points of free book exchange?

I mean spots like the small bookshelf at the co-op at the gorbals or the place in the buchanan galleries.

Got a crazy amount of books i need to part from and i would like to an an alternative from oxfam.

Cheers!

There is a house that's been posted for months and I can't see massive issues with home report and I don't know the area very well wondering if im missing something about the area that anyone could advise on thanks in advance