Arts Round-Up 2007

24 Plays seen – I can’t manage a favourite, so pick of the best:   Black Watch, All My Sons, Volpone, Wonderful World of Dissocia, Rhinoceros.      We have some really good theatre in Scotland.
9 Films:  best ones:   Lives of Others, Tell No-one, The Counterfeiters, Babel, Atonement.
15 Concerts:  Scottish Ensemble lunchtime concert with Toby Spence in Glasgow [...]

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Save the Fish – Royal Museum of Scotland

Anyone who has been to the Royal Museum in Edinburgh in Chambers Street – that’s the old museum, will remember the spectacular building.    If you were taken there as a wee child, you will remember the two floor-level fish tanks immediately in front of you as you enter the building.    You will probably remember the [...]

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Trump’s Golf Course

Donald Trump wants to build a massive golf course resort north of Aberdeen.    The golf courses would also involve a big hotel and a few hundred houses to pay for it.     The trouble is that the site is environmentally important.   To cut a very very long story short, Aberdeen Council threw out the plans on [...]

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Your Other 50th Birthday Present

I reached this latest milestone last week, and there was a bit of a do last weekend which was great fun.
Sneaking into the post a few days after the day itself came my other 50th Birthday Present – one that everyone in Scotland receives when they reach the half-century.     Guessed it yet?    A do-it-yourself bowel [...]

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Glasgow – Scotland With Style

I had not come across the Glasgow City branding before, and I am very impressed with what has been going on here.    Glasgow as a city is getting things together in a way that will make Edinburgh  rather envious.      As Edinburgh quietly drops its pathetic three wavy line logo, Glasgow has moved on from the [...]

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Scotrail plays Vertical Sardines

I was supposed to get the 8.15 train from Perth to Glasgow today, but it had ‘failed’ outside Aberdeen and was therefore cancelled.
So I had to wait for the next one, which was the 8.40 to Glasgow, due to get in at 9.40, making me late for my meeting.   This train also came from Aberdeen, [...]

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