Another drizzly day, so thought I’d do a Glasgow bus tour to see where I want to visit in more detail tomorrow. The boarding stop was 500 metres away from the hotel. And we were off….I was greatly taken with the graffiti work around the city!
opened in 2013 in Glasgow and plays host to national and international music mega stars as well as global entertainment and sporting events.
When Dr Edward Pritchard became the last person to be hanged in 1865, it was such a sensation that the execution turned into one of the year’s greatest tourist attractions. Pritchard was a respectable doctor with a practice in Sauchiehall Street but had been convicted of poisoning his wife and mother-in-law. By all accounts thousands of people travelled to the square and filled the surrounding streets drinking and celebrating the doctor’s demise. People who owned rooms overlooking the hanging site hired them out at three guineas a time so spectators could have a grandstand view and street vendors did a roaring trade.A View of the Clyde by graffiti artist, Rogue-One. Celebrating some of the City’s most impressive landmarks including the Armadillo, Riverside Museum, and some lesser known ones like the giant sunken Dalek. 
Clutha Bar mural by Rogue-One. Mary Barbour (see female on right of mural) was a Scottish political activist, local Labour councillor and magistrate. She is famous especially for her role as the main organiser of the women of Govan who took part in the rent strikes of 1915, when she actively organised tenant committees and eviction resistance. From 1924-27, Mary was appointed as one of the first woman magistrates in Glasgow. 
In 1925, she helped create the first family planning centre in Glasgow. Until her retirement from the Council in 1931, she worked relentlessly on behalf of the working class people of her constituency, serving on numerous committees covering the provision of health and welfare services.
Mungo took the bird in his hands and praying over it it came back to life. So here you have, in modern day guise, this story told by the mural, with the figure of the man with a halo behind him.“The Italia”, 2.6 metres, is one of several sculptures in Glasgow’s Merchant City quarter, by Alexander Stoddart. He is Scots and since 2008, has been the “Queen’s Sculptor in Ordinary” in Scotland. He works primarily on figurative sculpture in clay within the neoclassical tradition. 
The “Italia’s” female form is swathed in a draped garment and carries symbols of ancient Italy: a palm branch in her right hand and an inverted cornucopia in her left. Stoddart says of his own motivation, “My great ambition is to do sculpture for Scotland”, primarily through large civic monuments to figures from the country’s past.
Sew up the stomach with strong thread and prick a couple of times so it doesn’t explode while cooking. Put the haggis in a pan of boiling water (enough to cover it) and cook for 3 hours without a lid. Keep adding more water to keep it covered. Once cooked, take out of pan and place in oven, to dry out for a while. To serve, cut open the haggis and spoon out the filling. Serve with neeps (mashed swede or turnip) and tatties (mashed potatoes).
The name is thought to be a corruption of ‘Moss-hall’ or ‘Moss-haw’ but its spelling was formalised in 1812 to mark Napolean’s retreat from Moscow. A stream called the Volga Burn flows through the village. Locally, the land and forest around Cowans Law to the north-west is referred to as ‘Little Russia’. The hamlet also shares the same latitude (55 degrees North) as the Russian city.
With a hair salon, pub, post office, medical practice, nursing home, garage and fine food deli/coffee shop, Fenwick is pretty self contained for everyday needs. There’s a huge supermarket 3 km away.
The Stewarton Flower, so named due to its local abundance and recorded as such by the Kilmarnock Glenfield Ramblers, is otherwise known as Pink Purslane (Claytonia sibirica) is found in damp areas. This plant was introduced from North America in Victorian times.
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