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Keep Talking – Literary Charity Evening Glasgow

literary charity event

Tuesday 19 November, 2024, 7.30 p.m. With Jim Carruth CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Keep Talking – An Evening With Some Of Scotland’s Leading Writers A special literary charity evening in Glasgow featuring some of Scotland’s leading writers for a 24/7 help line that offers a free health counselling support for the farming community […]

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French Film Festival at GFT

french film festival

Friday 15 – Thursday 28 November, 2024 French Film Festival UK Vive le cinéma! The much-loved French Film Festival UK returns to GFT, bringing  latest and greatest in French cinema as well as some golden oldies. The programme kicks off with Robert Guédiguian’s charming romantic drama And the Party Goes On, and a special screening […]

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Mother India Christmas Menus 2024

Mother India Special Christmas Menu Mother India India: 28 Westminster Terrace, Glasgow G3 7RU 0141 221 1663 – info@motherindia.co.uk Book a table Online Starters Mains Sundries Mother India Set Menu for Christmas LUNCH £30 DINNER £37  Book a table Online STARTERS PRAWN AND CRAB DOSA (SF) CHICKEN TIKKA AND POTATO PAKORA (M) Chicken tikka with […]

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Secession Bar at Websters – New Latin Street Food Menu

new menu and deal secession bar

New Menu of Latin Street Food at Secession Bar at Websters See Secession Latin Street Fooid Menu (PDF) 50% off  – Wednesdays and Thursdays until 28 November, 2024. Enjoy our 2-4-1 deals on tacos and burritos (Sunday to Thursday).* Any burger for £8.50 on Fridays. *2-4-1 taco and burrito deals cannot be used in conjunction […]

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Wullie Davidson – Best Bus Pass Trips in Scotland

great glen

Glasgow to Fort William (through Glen Coe) 3 hrs 11 mins The fact that the Glasgow to Fort William bus goes through Glen Coe makes it one of the best trips.     Read the feature: Glasgow –  Inverness – Fort William – Wullie Davidson Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh 2 hrs 8 mins Inverness […]

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Taiwan Film Season: Shape of Home

Tawain Film Season

7 – 28 November, 2024 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgfow G3 6RB This November, explore the rich and diverse storytelling of Taiwan through Shape of Home, a film season at Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) that celebrates the universal search for belonging and identity. Featuring four compelling films by acclaimed Taiwanese directors, each screening delves into […]

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Freya O’Neill Art

‘I’ve been interested in art from a very young age, it’s always been my passion. After completing my National 5 Art qualification, which I received an A for, I am now taking a widening participation art course at the Glasgow School Of Art whilst studying for my Higher qualification.  I am also working on art […]

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Sunday, November 3, 2024 | Filed under: Art, Art & artists Glasgow West End, Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping

Janey Godley, Comedienne – West End Characters

Janey Godley 2000

(Aged just 63, Janey sadly died on Saturday 2 November, 2024. R.I.P. Janey, you brought much laughter and joy to many.) I met Janey at Mansions Cafe-Bar at Charing Cross where she runs Jester’s Comedy Club, compering the Friday and Saturday night shows and performing her own stand up comedy act. Mansions is housed in […]

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Hallowe’en – A Bygone Theme by Pat Byrne

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‘Mum, Anna and me have got an idea for Hallowe’en,’ said Catherine. ‘Okay. Tell me about it.’ ‘We’ve got it all planned. It’s going to be a bygone theme,’ said Anna. ‘Auntie Mary says she can lend us stuff. She’s got a trunk in her loft full of vintage clothes that she’s kept like forever.’ […]

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Thursday, October 31, 2024 | Filed under: Hallowe'en in Glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog, Stories for Hallowe'en, Writing

Glasgow Film Festival Comes Of Age As First Events Announced For 2025

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Glasgow Film Festival  – 26 February to 9 March, 2025 To mark GFF’s 21st edition, the festival’s wildly popular free morning retrospectives will take a look at coming of age in the movies. From 1945 classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, via Gregory’s Girl, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Boyz […]

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog

Hallowe’en Party – Glasgow

hallowe'en party

Friday 1 November, 2024 G20 Youth, 21 Dunbeith Place, Glasgow, G20 8HS DOORS OPEN 5.30PMFOOD 5.30-6.30PMSTORY TELLING 6PMARTS & CRAFTS 5.30-7.30PMDISCO & PARTY GAMES 6.30 – 7.30PMLANTERN PARADE 7.30-8PMDOORS CLOSE 8PM Event on Facebook

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Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | Filed under: Hallowe'en in Glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog

Parcels – a poem by Basia Palka

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Basia Palka More about Basia – read more of her poetry Jim and Pat’s West End Chat – Pat chats to Basia Palka  Basi chats about the Polish Community, her poetry and fundraising for Huntington’s Association 

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Monday, October 21, 2024 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, stories and poems, Stories for Hallowe'en, Writing

Creative Conversations: Vik Shirley

Vik Shirley

Monday 21 October, 2024 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor, critic & academic from Bristol, England, now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her collection, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN), her pamphlets, Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (Beir Bua) and Poets (The Red Ceilings […]

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Whistler Pastels – The Hunterian

whistler pastels

Friday 04 October 2024 – Sunday 02 March 2025 – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Hunterian Art Galler, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQy Throughout his career, James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) made drawings using pastel crayons. His early drawings (1860s–70s) were often studies for oil paintings, but from the late 1870s he […]

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Clatty Pat’s Walk Like a Glaswegian into the 90s

Clatty Pats Walk Like a Glaswegian

24 – 27 October, 2024 At: Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HZ We got Clatty in the 80s as we walked back like Glaswegians to the legend that was “Clatty Pats”. Due to overwhelming public demand- the smash hit that had you singing and dancing and laughing(and drinking!) to the tunes of […]

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The Nightway Man by Michael Tess

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A Story for Hallowe’en In July sore heat, mother and Sheila pitched the tent. Sheila drank water from a bottle. ‘We can top up at the stream,’ said mother. ‘I hear it.’ She shared the bottle. Tucked her vest into her shorts. ‘How did you know it was there?’ ‘We camped here before.’ ‘When.’ ‘Your […]

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Saturday, October 12, 2024 | Filed under: Pat's Home Page Blog, Stories for Hallowe'en

Fundraiser Community Meal – Glasgow West End

community meal

Sunday October, 13th, 2024 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Would you like to have a lovely dinner with Central and West Integration Network in partnership with  Glasgow Community Food Network A special community meal prepared by talented refugee chefs at the Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Hall, Observatory Road, Glasgow We are organising once again a […]

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Mary Irvine: My Friend Robin Lloyd Jones

Robin Lloyd Jones

Robin Lloyd-Jones would have been 90 years old on 5 October, 2024,  but it was not to be. I was privileged to be asked to write an obituary but felt a formal obituary was too cold and impersonal. After several attempts the following emerged and was published in the Helensburgh Advertiser. My Friend, Robin I […]

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | Filed under: Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene, Pat's Home Page Blog

Donegal Diaspora in Scotland

inishowen donegal

Donegal County Council are hosting a series of events in Glasgow and Edinburgh on 3rd & 4th October, they are looking for information from the Donegal diaspora based in Scotland. They are gathering photos & memories of Donegal people who worked in Scotland between 1940 & 1990 for a new exhibition in Letterkenny in 2025. […]

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Books at the Botanics

books at botanics

Friday 27  September – Monday 30 September, 2024 Books at the Botanics Weekend Book Fair 10 a.m. till 5.00 p.m. in the Hopkirk Building  (behind the main range), Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Hopkirk Building, 730 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G12 0UE Card and cash payments accepted www.booksatthebotanics.co.uk Books at the Botanics on Facebook

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Book Launch: Medicine, Money and Murder by Anne Pettigrew

Thursday 3 October, 2024, 7 p.m. Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU Medicine, Money and Murder follows two female Glasgow medical students on summer placement in 1971 New Jersey, USA. It is Anne Pettigrew’s fourth literary medical crime novel, a thought-provoking tale of cultural clashes, ethical dilemmas, romance and humour that emphasises how fortunate […]

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Creative Conversations: Andrés N. Ordorica

Monday 23 September 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow  Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, West Quadrangle, Glasgow G12 8QQ Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to […]

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BFI London Film Festival at GFT

BFI Film festival 2024

Wednesday  9 – Monday 21 October, 2024 The 68th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is brimming with the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling – and everyone is invited. This is your chance to delight in the undiscovered, as all feature films are being shown in the UK for […]

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Wully Davidson: Bus Pass Rambles, Kerrera – Hutcheson’s Monument Walk

View from Kerrara

Last year, I did the southern loop walk on the island of Kerrera, near Oban. I intended doing the smaller northern loop this year, and to combine it with a walk to Hutcheson’s monument at the northern end of the island. Two years ago, Kerrera got its first tarmacked roads, and the northern loop joins […]

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House Plant Market University of Glasgow

house plant sale

16 – 19 September, 2024, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Outside the Main Building, inside the Memorial Gates on Central Campus, University Avenue, G12 8QQ Jazz up your room or office with some friendly houseplants! There will be over 150 different types of houseplants on offer in varying shapes and sizes at competitive prices along […]

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Monday, September 16, 2024 | Filed under: Community event, Markets, Pat's Home Page Blog, Shopping

Big Band Buble´ at Websters

big band buble

Friday 20 September, 2024 Michael Hastie, Scotland’s number one Michael Bublé tribute, with the record-breaking Scottish Big Band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation. With mesmerizing performances that capture the essence of Michael Bublé’s timeless music, Big Band Bublé guarantees an unforgettable experience. Get ready to be transported by the smooth, velvety voice and charismatic […]

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Those Pretty Wrongs at Hug and Pint

those pretty wrongs

Wednesday, 18 September, 2024, 7 p.m. Those Pretty Wrongs (featuring Jody Stephens of Big Star) with special guests BMX Bandits (duo set).Tickets £22.20 Hug and Pint, 171 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9AW Event on. Facebook    

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Lismore. September 2024

Helen Rose Outdoors Lismore is an Inner Hebridean island near Oban. The island is approximately 10 miles long by 1 mile wide. The island was called the ‘Great Garden’ because it is relatively low lying, and very green and fertile compared with the mountains of Mull, and on the mainland. It is surrounded by the waters […]

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Friday, August 30, 2024 | Filed under: Helen Rose Hillwalking Diary, Pat's Home Page Blog

Bungalow Cafe: Lunch Menu

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Adjoining Mother India at 28 Westminster Terrace, (Sauchiehall Street) Glasgow G3 7RU Telephone: 0141 221 1663 Bungalow Café Menu – To Sit In or Takeaway  Spicy Tomato Soup with Warm Pitta 3.95  Takeaway: 3.00 Panini and Toastie Chicken Tikka with peppers 7.00 Takeaway: 6.00 Cheese and Tomato 5.50 Takeaway: 4.50 Cheese and Onion 5.50 Takeaway: […]

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The Lansdowne – Mother India West End

The Lansdowne, 7A Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow G20 6NQ To Book Telephone 0141 334 4653 INDR – Relish the taste of India Book at The Lansdowne  BOOK NOW Or call on 0141 334 4653 Review: The Lansdowne, Pat Byrne TAPAS STYLE DISHES To book a table call us on 0141 334 4653 www.motherindia.co.uk The Lansdowne Mother India  Looking for the perfect […]

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