Posted by: allabouteve on: August 31, 2007
Not a song title in sight for these weekly posts but these will be detailing issues and events in the ward, and what I’ve be doing as a local councillor. Dull but worthy as I’ve described other elected member blog postings, but may be of interest to some and after all, that’s one of my [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: August 30, 2007
So , Merlin was really a counsellor (or even councillor ) from Partick – it was in the Sunday Mail, so it must be true. A writer by the name of Adam Ardrey has written a book called “Finding Merlin” in which he’s claiming that the real Merlin was a scholar and politican who lived [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: August 21, 2007
Asking for feedback on my blog, and one media savvy person acidly commented that only my friends and opponents would read it. Another, kinder person opined that I should have regular updates on my councillor activity and what’s happening in the ward, and not mix that up with the op-ed pieces and political soundings -off [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: August 14, 2007
Is it just me, or is there a strange synchronicity of events – on the day that the partition of the Indian sub-continent and the 60th anniversary of the creation of two separate independent states is being commemorated (Pakistan today, India tomorrow ) , then Scottish independence is on the media agenda as the SNP [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: August 12, 2007
Could be a description of most of the political obsessives I know, but hearing the news about Tony Wilson’s death had me searching my DVD collection for the film of the same name, and playing New Order and Joy Divison tracks. He highlighted the issue of funding drug treatments and lack of a universal approach [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: August 3, 2007
The Partick Fayre was revived as part of Partick Housing Assocation’s 30th anniversary in 2004 and the two day event kicked off today in a new venue, the playground of Dowanhill Primary. Usually it’s on Mansfield Park, but the organisers decided that just in case the refurbishment of Mansfield was under way this year, another [...]
