Nae Streets in Drumchapel - Glasgow Life

from an old Drumchapel boy
At Peel Glen we passed by the Squatters Camp and kept walking
until we got to Duntocher Road. We went along the left side from
there. We cut along a wee road to the right. This led up a slope to a
farm, and passed by a pig-pen. We saw the pigs. They were very big,
very fat and very muddy. Pigs are dangerous. We left them alone and
walked on to the end of this road. From here we walked on across the
moor and into the countryside.
This was the real highlands to us. Rob Roy and the kilties went
here when the Redcoats were hunting them down. Then a man came
and chased us. He was a Gamekeeper. He had a rifle and shouted he
was going to fire it at us and get the police.
We ran away. We found a great wee loch to swim in. There
were big boulders at the side. That made it good for diving and
jumping in. But this water was the coldest ever. Even on the hottest
day this water was freezing.
One boy took an old frying pan out his mum’s kitchen. Another
boy brought sausages. Another boy brought eggs to fry. Another boy
brought pieces on butter. One of the big boys brought a box of
matches. We got boulders and dry wood and made a wee campfire.
We cooked the eggs and sausages. forgot to bring cooking oil and the
eggs and sausages got burnt and stuck to the bottom of the frying
pan. We had no forks and no plates. One big boy had a knife. He
waited until the the eggs and burnt sausages were cold. He scraped it
off the bottom of the frying pan. He put it into our hands and we ate
it. We thought it tasted okay. It was a good laugh too.
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