Eilidh's Daily Ukuele Ceilidh

Sadly I have just heard that 4Talent (Channel 4's creative industries wing) has ceased to exist - another victim to the credit crunch. They were a good bunch of people there and will no doubt will be heading off to do more of their interesting stuff else where.

I guess that means I can safely put the above short film online. It was made for 4T earlier this year but never quite managed to get uploaded - and now I guess never will so here it is celebrating southsider (though currently she is an expat) Eilidh's Daily Ukuele Ceildh in all her wonder.

Merry Christmas to all.

Cheers

Alburt and Ann

Goodbye Woolies

It's sad times all round the country at the moment - with stores closing left, right and centre - first there was the loss of furniture kit extraordinaries MFI and I just read this morning that Zavvi has gone into administration too now - they have a pretty stupid name though which has always put me off shopping there.

The big one of course is the loss of Woolies which would be 100 years old next year. I have very found memories of the Woolies in Shawlands - one of my earliest memories is going there on Saturday mornings to buy Ladybird books when I was a wee one - and I've still got a couple of wooden chairs my parents bought there when they first got married. Where will the Shawlands locals buy their pick n mix now or small spanners, kids costumes, car repair kits, magazines and most importantly toys - there will be nowhere to get toys now.

Sadly we've only got a couple of weeks of the store that sells everything left - Shawlands will shut up shop on Jan 5th with other stores closing at different dates from December the 27th. For the dates of your nearest store - see below.

List of stores and dates for closure

The only small positive in all this is that the group that own the arcade claimed that Woolworths (who owned their own building) were the only reason stopping them completely refurbishing the whole centre. So in the sad demise of woolies there might be a complete change and rebirth of shawlands - or maybe in the current climate nothing will happen and the stores will all lie empty for the next 50 years.

Bah hum bug

This year GYCT/Theatre Ecole are presenting "Ebenezer the Rock Musical" (taken from a Christmas Carol) from Wednesday 10th December to Saturday 13th December 2008 in Queen's Park Parish Church at 7.30pm. Tickets priced at £6 adults, £5 concession and £20 family ( 2 adults and 2 Chidren) available from admin@gyct or each Wednesday from 7pm to 9.30pm at Queen's Park Parish Church, 170 Queen's Drive or by phoning 0141 423 6037

Konichiwa

Hello there southsiders - we are now back from our month long adventures.

We see life in the UK has not changed too much - everything is still credit crunching along, people are still going on about that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross Phone call and all the trains I've tried to get so far have been late - you wouldn't get that kind of nonsense in the land of the rising sun.

So what of the southside? Have we missed anything exciting?