Slap bang in the middle of the Commonwealth Games it feels like it’s been going on for ages, in fact sometimes it’s hard to imagine life without it… or maybe it’s just me. Here are some signs you’ve got the Glasgow 2014 bug: It has become entirely normal to spend your life with a label around your […]
When will there be rain?
“And we’ve been so lucky with the weather…,” they cry, perspiring pinkly. “It’s hotter than the Seychelles, here. In Glasgow.”Right. It’s true. The sun has beat relentlessly onto Glasgow’s unusually clean streets these past few days. Even locals who normally consider that a sunny spell is part of an elaborate natural practical joke – like […]
Commonwealth Games: being part of it
You’ve probably noticed. There’s something going on in Glasgow this week. It’s a little bit like an artist’s impression of some improbably marvellous futuristic city that has come to life. Clean streets and squares throng with smiling groups togged out in matching track suits like off-duty astronauts. There’s a sense of united purpose and anticipation […]
NT Live Skylight: How perfection is only ever a few pixels away
Not only was the sun shining, making a walk through Glasgow’s West End feel like going on holiday, but I’d got parked exactly where I wanted to. Twice. Things were looking good. It was the evening of NT Live‘s screening of David Hare’s Skylight. For once I won childcare roulette and going was a real, […]