Owner of Glasgow Southside institution to retire after 35 years The owner of the Derby Café in Netherlee, on the south side of Glasgow, is seeking to retire after a 35-year tenure

♦️Owner of Glasgow Southside institution to retire after 35 years
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A collage of nine images featuring prints, a cushion, a mug, a T-shirt and a phone case.

I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please repost.
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Thanks!

Dinosaur season two review – this hilarious, heartwarming comedy is a classic It’s refreshing, groundbreaking and absolutely piles up the gags. The return of autistic heroine Nina is a very happy one indeed

“A product of real life experience and close female collaboration” Happy to read this glowing review of Ashley Storrie’s new series of Dinosaur, by @chitgrrl.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Friends Again review — worth the 40-year wait to hear this album live The band only made one, superb, record, in 1984, but split before its release. At Celtic Connections in Glasgow, it finally had its moment in the limelight

"Friends Again? Nothing on the Old Fruitmarket stage suggested anything other than delight in each other’s company and joy in playing these songs."
I went to see a very special show and wrote about it for The Times.
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Absolutely. Lovely to see you both.

Joyous Friends Again gig at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow tonight, wonderfully supported by birthday boy Lloyd Cole.

La Chiesa Dei Morti “Have you ever seen anything like this?” our guide, Michele, asks, as he leads us into the crypt behind the altar of the Chiesa Dei Morti — Church of the Dead — in the town of Urbania in Le Marche.

"Taut leathery skin hangs like a tabard over the torsos of the best-preserved Urbania mummies, & loosely over the legs & arms like an ageing elephant’s." I visited the Chiesa dei Morti and wrote about death, life and suchlike over on substack. (it's free!) danigaravelli.substack.com/p/la-chiesa-...

Quite a line-up.

I'm also chuffed to have been asked to write the introduction to Gentlemen of the West. The new Polygon editions of her books are gorgeous with art works by Joan Eardley on the front. Here's a preorder link for them all. birlinn.co.uk/contributor/...

So many questions!

Glasgow Apollo quip from the fantastic Emmylou Harris at #CelticConnections tonight: They used to say the heating was out but that it would be working the next time.

I have my original editions still but these new @aowensarchive.bsky.social ones with Joan Eardley art work and introductions by excellent Scottish women writers like @danigaravelli.bsky.social & Jenni Fagan look great

If this sounds negative then blame ...*gestures in direction of absolutely everything WE arrived at the flat the day before the winter solstice dressed in old clothes and ready for action. Our eldest son and his girlfriend picked up…

"I told them, then, how his dad and I had painted his nursery yellow when he was a tiny, unborn thing, known to us only as 'button'”. My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on a paint job and the small joys that keep us from becoming bitter. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2572507...

My stupidly talented friend Mike created this magnificent @heraldscotland.bsky.social front page, and now it’s up for Front Page of the Year.

He deserves all the recognition he’s received for it, and it would be much appreciated if you gave it a vote

www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/ch...

Poor Old Soul - French Version

Never heard this until today WTF?

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Great headline

From Glencoe to the Lords — Labour’s Highland baroness Catherine MacLeod, a former adviser to Alistair Darling, is the only Scot on a list of 25 new peers dominated by nominees from London and England’s southeast

It’s not every day you find out a former colleague is a member of the House of Lords. Catherine is super smart and kind - exactly the kind of person needed in a legislature.
www.thetimes.com/article/d50d...

The scruffy side of Porto, Portugal #Photography #Architecture #Porto 📷

Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing | Dani Garavelli The Reform leader is exploiting growing resentment towards migrants and hosting a sold-out event - something unimaginable just a few years ago, says freelance columnist Dani Garavelli

A wee bit I wrote about the hammerblow of watching people from the country that gave us the Glasgow girls and Kenmure Street turn to the right. And about the opportunism of Farage as he heads north. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

👀The mesmerising sight and industrial orchestra of the new Nutmeg parading through the print presses.

🧎🏻It seems to do a celebratory knee-slide at the end.

🛒Order one of these beauties direct. The perfect football escape: tiny.cc/z32w001

What a place!

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Lepanto LEPANTO

I'm not really starting a substack, I don't think. But 1 of the best things that happened to me this year was being shortlisted for the Anne Brown essay prize. The essay was on my great aunt, her house & her remarkable siblings. You can read it here, if you like. danigaravelli.substack.com/p/lepanto

The Moon between two cars of a lit-up Ferris wheel.

Moonshot in St Enoch Square.

Diego Armando Maradona, who died on this day in 2020, aged 60.

Here he is aged 18 in June 1979, looking out over Hope Street from the Central Hotel. He scored his first goal for Argentina that day, the third in a 3-1 win.

#Glasgow #maradona

Haha....been a long long time. Apologies to you and others who have heard these Tartan Army tales before.

A small act of kindness by Archie Gemmill, impressed Italian in-laws and the hunt for tickets. Another punt for my @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on following Scotland at the World Cup finals which appeared in the print edition today.

Thank you so much Peter. I believe St. Etienne has come on since (checks notes) the end of the last century.

'Win, lose or draw - here's why it's worth selling your soul to get to the World Cup' Scotland fan Graeme Smith was at Italia 90 and France 98 - here's what the new generation of fans have to look forward to

I really enjoyed writing this piece for
@heraldscotland.bsky.social on the highs and lows of watching Scotland at the World Cup finals which, after the win over Denmark, is something a new generation is about to experience. www.heraldscotland.com/sport/footba...

BBC Radio 4 - Currently, If at First You Don’t Secede If at first you don’t secede, should you really try, try, try again?

Me and @caitlinsmith.bsky.social have teamed up to make another BBC Radio 4 documentary. If At First You Don't Secede asks if there is any way through the current impasse on independence. It's on this coming Sunday (November 23) at 1.30pm if you fancy a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...