Christmas Poems, Stories and Winter Tales from Glasgow WritersThe Office Party by Pat Byrne. A Christmas Story in Glasgow.
The Office Party Sylvie sat in the booth at the back of the café. She watched as Karl came in, struggling to open the double doors in the strong wind. They slammed behind him as he stamped his boots on the big ‘Welcome’ mat. He grinned when he spotted her and as he got closer […]
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
Winter Wander on Byres Road: George Mewes Cheesemonger and The Chip
29th February, 2012 The 29th February only comes along every four years so it’s a very special day. Yesterday was that date and I spent the day in Glasgow’s West End and it turned out to be particularly enjoyable, not least of all because it was a really beautiful day, our first this year. In […]
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Monday, December 8, 2014 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales, Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Walks
Ayah a poem by Leela Soma
Ayah My child eye watches,Ayah’s Rangoli patterns bright, on the newly washed verandaThe dots threaded together like pearls of life’s experienceCultural traditions handed down in perfect symmetryThe opalescent sky shimmers anewA visual joy starts the day. My child ear hears,Her quiet, broken piece by pieceThe coffee machine, grinds beans, the aroma rich.Golden sun beats down noon […]
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Christmes Poem by Ishbel McVicar
Ishbel is in her late 80s, has lived in Dumbarton most of her life – has had several sojourns abroad – and moved to Alexandria on retirement. She writes personal memoires as well as poetry about nature and ‘beliefs’ Christmas Stars Star of wonder and hopeleading us to the Christ child Desert starsilluminating mosques and minaretwhere the […]
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Sunday, January 12, 2014 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
We Only Know – A Christmas Story by Maggie Graham, Glasgow Writer
We Only Know. By Maggie Graham. Hail Hail I don’t know what possessed me to come to the Barras. Mum used to bring me here on Saturdays when Dad was at the match. It would be dark by the time we got home and we’d get fish and chips for our tea. Dad was never […]
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
The Story of Little Robin: a Christmas Story for Children by Frankie Gault
Once upon a time there lived a small bird whose name was Little Robin. He was playful, obedient to his parents, always respected his elders and tried to help whenever he could. He wasn’t shy and always tried to speak the truth. At this time all robins were brown in colour and they lived in […]
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Friday, December 13, 2013 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire: A Christmas Story by Jim Byrne
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, click. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, click. Well no chestnuts, a ‘flame effect fire’ – and three pot heads – all being comfortably roasted. The needle kept jumping on the record but nobody moved from the couch. A flame effect fire can keep you entertained for hours. A […]
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
The Gospel According to Sammy: A Christmas Story by James Carson
The Gospel, According to Sammy And it came to pass, in the final days of the year of Our Lord, that three Shepherds saw a great light. And they followed the light, and entered into it. And as they entered, they beheld an angel whose hair was as golden as the sands of the Sinai […]
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
Kibble Palace: A Winter Tale by Leela Soma Glasgow Writer
Kibble Palace by Leela Soma: Glasgow Writer “In heav’n and earth ’tis hard to find A greater good than being kind.” I closed my dog-eared book of ‘Thirukurral’, given to me by my dad when I left India, refreshed by the truths in this ancient book written five thousand years ago but had never lost […]
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Overdone – a Christmas Story by Mary Irvine
Overdone: Part of Mary Irvine’s Greek Memoirs As I ascended the final slope to Martina’s house, I could see her on the balcony wielding the binoculars she claimed she used to watch the fishing boats out at sea. Others, however, did wonder if they helped provide her with her plethora of knowledge of the comings […]
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Monday, December 9, 2013 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
I’m A Shepherd: a Christmas Story by Allan Wilson
I’m A Shepherd and then he punches me in the face right. Christ sake man, I said. Hit me back, he says. That was sore ya dick. He pulls his arm back to do it again and I sort of just grab onto him and hold his arms down. […]
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Sunday, December 8, 2013 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
Good King Wenceslas – a Christmas Story by Christina Byrne
Good King Wenceslas Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen. The castle was bitterly cold; the snow was over three feet deep and his staff were unable to collect wood for the castle’s many fireplaces. A poor man came in sight carrying winter fuel. Wenceslas called a page and ordered him to […]
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Saturday, December 7, 2013 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
Inside – a Christmas story by Shaunagh Jones
On a street, there’s a lamp that saturates the pavement with a hazy, gold light. The cobbled road is lined with townhouses, each with a different coloured door and an elegantly looped number. You stop under the lamp and notice the house in front of you has a burgundy door. At the window, two […]
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Friday, December 6, 2013 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales
Nativity – a Christmas poem by Paul McCafferty
Planets aligned. A prophecy long toldbegan unfolding. Three Priestly Kingsor were they Emmisarys? Emergedfrom hinterlands. They followed anordained route, a star, a comet, allthree? A young couple, both awareyet unaware traversed from somewhereto somewhere else.As we all must know, it was arduous.We have our ambulances, our birthingrooms, our clinics fresh with disinfectants,antisepticts. They, had one […]
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Christmas Casualties by Stephen Watt
(Photo: Stephen performing at Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival) Christmas Casualties Stumbling into blazing, translucent, fairy-lit bedlam,we become members of a taxi vigilante. Slack pompoms hang loosely over spirited, Rudolph-coloured noses.Pockets are crammed with jewelled wrappers of Rosespilfered from the office tin,and pepperoni triangles seep inside enveloped napkins for those 3.30AM gremlins. Mauled umbrellas decompose […]
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A Gift – a Christmas story by Kevin Scott
Ian stirs a pot of bubbling baked beans, humming along to a song on the radio he was sure his wife would have liked. Toast pops and jolts him. He shouts his son’s name and hears thunderclap footsteps above. He scratches his greying beard and nudges his glasses upward to dry his eyes for his […]
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