Printemps Arrive

Printemps arrive
s'en va
Lueur brillait
pendant l'hiver
au 42
Soleil arrive
Glasgow est gris
Printemps arrive
S'en va

Pierre G was a flatmate of my dad's when he lived in a shared flat in Gibson St (above the original Shish Mahal, now demolished) in the 1970s.

This painting tells the story of the tenements of the west end of Glasgow better than I ever could while blogging on the a mobile phone watching the sun set behind the Trinity College towers.

printemps arrive- bienvenue.

Art School to be Demolished!

... I've a funny feeling it's not for real. And more likely to be an environmental art statement than an early April Fool's gag.

UPDATE! No April Fool! though I think the notice is still a statement of opinion.

Tickle me

Here's a little blast from the past. Evening Citizen from 1965 found scrumpled up blogging a gap in the woodwork around the front door, and revealed when said woodwork was removed by the builder who's rebuilding said front door (hopefully, as I write...)

As the paper was folded into what we know in the business as a "wodge", then had plaster applied down the side, it was all stuck the gether and kind of tricky to open it up at all without ripping. But I managed to get a reasonable peek at this advert for "Tickle Me" starring Elvis Presley.

Always nice to find these little remnants of the past, and to see why Glasgow used to be known as "Cinema City".