Posted by: allabouteve on: June 5, 2009
In keeping with my previous blog post about focussing on the ward and the city, I’m not going to add my voice to the cacophony of comment about the “Events” of the past week and the febrile and hysterical atmosphere that is prevailing at Westminster. Other than observing that if I was a Labour councillor [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: May 15, 2009
Have taken time out from blogging for a while, and I notice that some fellow councillor bloggers have done this as well – no doubt they experience the same difficulties as I do , ie; what is the best use of our time and what is the blog for ? Tempting though it is to [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: December 12, 2008
Tha Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu air spionnadh a thoirt do dh’iomairt gus an sianal didseatach Gàidhlig, BBC Alba, fhaighinn air Freeview nas luaithe.
Bhòt comhairlichean gu h-aona-ghuthach airson na h-iomairt aig coinneimh Diardaoin.
Sgrìobhaidh iad a-nis gu Urras a’ BhBC a chur ìmpidh orra an sianal a chur air Freeview cho luath ’s a ghabhas.
A rèir poileasaidh an [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: December 2, 2008
Or in .. depending on whether keeping young people in school during lunch times is an answer to the problems of chaos and litter in streets around secondary schools as the pupils pile out of school to hit the nearest chippy/takeaway – with the consequential effects on their health as well as degrading the local [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 23, 2008
Bit light on the blogging front this week, mainly because I’ve been reading rather than logging on, and spending some time in my own ward, which is nice – getting the 62 bus west instead of east.. Am reading “Shopped” and “Bad Food Britain” by Joanna Blythman, as well as “Toast” by Nigel Slater. Books [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 7, 2008
Otherwise known as the walk back from Caledonia Primary – congratulations Councillor Andy Muir , and never has a candidate been more deserving of winning but the real winners will be the people of Baillieston ward. Hard working and intelligent and a librarian – a winning combination… and it’s been a good night in terms [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 5, 2008
Don’t you know
They’re talkin’ bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don’t you know
They’re talkin’ about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 5, 2008
Which I’m not of course - but Born in Bolton doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.. Obviously this is one of those pivotal nights in history, and the closest thing to heaven for electoral anoraks. The Bruce Springsteen song that entitles this blog post is quite poignant and was often misinterpreted as a strident pro-American rallying cry by [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 27, 2008
Which was the first guess of the Primary 6 class in Broomhill Primary , when I asked them what they thought my former job connected to books was .. Along with editor, poet and journalist. The seventh guess was librarian !I was invited to take part in their Book Week and read from my favourite [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 23, 2008
The Partick West area committee had a meeting today- this is the council committee that brings together the councillors and community council reps to discuss issues relating to the ward, and also has a small budget for grants for community groups. When I was chair of the previous areas committee I started a process of [...]
