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Contents 

6 Fashion pages 

up on the roof 

14 West End Live 

with Greg Kane 

16 WIN! Two nights at 

Crieff Hydro 

18 Keys to the city 

22 Top Things 

24 Meet local artisan 

Claire Henry 

29 Afternoon tea 

at Gleneagles 

31 Restaurant Review 

Chelsea Market 

32 Sweet Liberty 

34 WIN! A style 

makeover at Rainbow 

Room International 

35 Pub Review 

The Doublet 

37 Mum’s Notebook 

38 Young men at work 

45 Accountancy Matters 

with Murrison & Wilson 

46 Writer’s Reveal meets 

Charles McGarry 

50 Enable Glasgow 

celebrates 60 years 

52 Interiors article: 

Signature pieces 

57 Hoping for an 

Indian summer 

59 Legal Matters with 

Mitchells Roberton 

61 Shades of summer 

66 The Wee 

Kitchen Shop


contributors 

Suzanne Martin 

Editor 

Gregor Reid 

Photographer 

Terri Craig 

Hair & Make Up 

Jennifer McIlroy 

Writer 

David McPhee 

Writer 

Nicola Maule 

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model rosalind @ Superior model management 

Hair & make-up terri craig, terricraig.co.uk 

stylist jacki clark, jackiclark-stylist.co.uk 

photographer gregor reid, gregorreidphotography.com 

location The merchants house merchantshouse.org.uk


LIVE 

August 

Brian Wilson 

Thursday 3rd August 6.30pm 

KG Bandstand, tickets-scotland.com 

After seeing a shockingly bad 

performance from The Beach Boys 

playing (actually miming) live at 

the US State Capitol celebrations 

on the 4th of July this year, I think 

your safer going to see Brian Wilson 

if you're after a faithful and more 

authentic recreation of all those 

great Beach Boys records. Unlike 

the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson has 

hung on to his hipster credentials 

throughout his career and is still 

regarded by many of his peers to 

be a musical genius. And who can 

argue with Wilson having written 

and produced over 24 hit singles, 

60 albums and sold in excess of 100 

million records over 50+ years. 

The 2015 biopic 'Love and Mercy: 

The Life, Love and Genius Of Brian 

Wilson' starring John Cusack 

accurately conveyed the essential 

truth of Wilson’s career. 

Hopefully the Glasgow weather will 

be kind as this music needs sunshine 

not rain. Fingers crossed. 

Choice Track: Brian Wilson 

‘Good Vibrations’ 

Ladysmith Black Mambazo 

Sunday 6th August 6.30pm 

KG Bandstand, tickets-scotland.com 

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a ten 

piece South African male choral 

group that sings in the vocal styles 

of isicathamiya and mbube (the 

traditional music of the Zulu people). 

They rose to worldwide prominence as 

a result of singing with Paul Simon 

on his 1986 album Graceland and 

have won multiple awards including 

four Grammy’s. I’ve just spent the 

last hour listening to their most 

recent 2017 album World Music and 

I’m now soothed to the point that all 

my worries and stresses seem like 

distant memories now. 

Go see them live and experience the 

ultimate natural destresser. 

Choice track: Ladysmith Black 

Mambazo ‘Lomhlaba Kawunoni 

(The Earth Never Gets Fat)’ 

Too Many Zooz 

Thursday 17th August 7pm 

Òran Mór, oran-mor.co.uk 

Too Many Zooz are an instrumental 

trio from New York City, New York 

comprising of Leo Pellegrino on 

Baritone Sax, Matt Doe on trumpet 

and David 'King of Sludge' Parks 

on drums. They all met in 2013 at 

The Manhattan School Of Music and 

earned their stripes busking in 

the subways of Manhattan. In 2014 

a passer-by filmed one of their 

performances and said video went 

viral on Youtube. This resulted in 

many opportunities for the group 

including performing live with 

Beyonce at the CMA’s in 2016. As 

a piano player I often find myself 

reaching for music that has no 

harmony, just melody and groove. 

It’s nice just not to hear harmony 

sometimes and Too Many Zooz are 

perfect for this. 

It does have a carnival feel to it 

so be prepared for lots of dancing 

and screaming throughout their 

performance on the night. 

Choice Track: Too Many Zooz 

‘Warriors’


by Greg Kane 

September 

The Wynntown Marshals 

Saturday 2nd September 7.30pm 

The Hug & Pint, thehugandpint.com 

The Wynntown Marshals are the best 

Americana band NOT from North 

America. The Edinburgh based 

five piece are celebrating their 

10th anniversary this year with a 

compilation album release and a 

handful of gigs. I’ve always really 

liked lead singer Keith Benzie’s voice, 

it’s somewhere between Mark Oliver 

Everett and a young Springsteen. 

The guitar parts and sounds, multipart 

vocal harmonies and quality of 

songs have all been a constant for 

the last ten years too which their 

new album The End Of The Golden Age 

joyously reaffirms. 

Choice track: The Wynntown Marshals 

‘There Was A Time’ 

John Legend 

Friday 8th September 6.30pm 

SSE Hydro, thessehydro.com 

Engelbert Humperdinck, that’s not his 

real name. 

Elvis Costello, that’s not his real 

name either. 

Joe Strummer, that’s not his real name? 

You know where I'm going with this. 

John Legend is not his real name. But 

what’s in a name? Everything if you're 

a pop star. 

Springfield, Ohio born Rodger 

Stephens has gone with the kid-on 

name of John Legend and in doing so 

has become a globally successful soul 

singer/songwriter. Now approaching 

his 40s he’s achieved much in this time 

releasing five albums, awarded ten 

Grammy’s and a Golden Globe. His all 

round likeable, bankable, sensitively 

sensible approach to soul has served 

him well since he graduated with a 

degree in English Lit. and then started 

out on his music career. 

I’ve come to like him a lot since my 

brother first played me his hit song 

Ordinary People almost 13 years 

ago. He’s on a European arena tour 

throughout Sept/Oct promoting his 

latest album Darkness And Light. 

Choice Track: John Legend 

‘Ordinary People’ 

Robin Williamson 

Saturday 9th September 7.30pm 

Milngavie Folk Club 

tickets.jmsconcerts.co.uk 

An old troubadour friend of mine 

used to enthral me with stories of his 

exploits on the road. These stories 

culminated with him writing his 

wonderfully playful song Muckle Dour; 

Muckle and Dour are Scots words. 

muckle: noun – a large amount. 

dour: adjective – relentlessly severe, 

or gloomy in manner or appearance. 

Robin Williamson is probably the 

most accurate example of the subject 

matter of my old friend’s song, stern 

and gloomy but a real joy to behold. 

From being a founder member of The 

Incredible String Band in the 60s, he 

has also written spy novels, been a 

celebrated proponent of the British 

Bardic Tradition, a project manager 

for Scottish Wildlife Trust and a 

recording artist on revered record 

label ECM (who’s mantra is 'make the 

most beautiful sound next to silence'). 

He’s out promoting his latest album 

Love Will Remain. I’m going. 

Choice track: Robin Williamson 

‘Fair Miles Never Wasted’

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Image I Kelvingrove Bandstand © Andrew Lee 

keys to the city 

No one knows what goes on behind closed doors. Not 

true this September finds Tracy Mukherjee as Glasgow, 

once again, invites you to take a peek behind those 

curtains in the annual Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival. 

Ilove nothing more than walking around 

the West End. My home now of 17 years 

and, coming from a little village in North 

Lanarkshire, the sheer scale and architecture 

of the buildings has always mesmerised me. 

And that’s before you take a step inside. 

So what a gift it is that Glasgow throws the 

doors of these historical buildings open 

for one week from 11th – 17th September. 

The festival, ‘a celebration of Glasgow’s 

architecture, culture and heritage’, is brought 

to you by the Glasgow Building Preservation 

Trust, who have been raising funds to 

organise and coordinate the event since the 

city of culture celebrations in 1990. 

With 116 venues to visit Glasgow-wide, how 

do you choose? Form an orderly line, dear 

friends and follow me, as we take a tour of 

our own little treasures here in the wonderful 

West End.


Buchanan Bridge Club 

We start a tour of our glorious heritage, past 

and present at the pristinely perfect Buchanan 

Bridge Club, Clairmont Gardens,Park District. 

This A-listed Victorian townhouse was formerly 

owned by the founder of Calmac, David 

Hutcheson. The townhouse retains a huge 

amount of original features and one can imagine 

that Hutcheson wanted to reflect the affluence 

his success had bestowed upon him as his fleet 

of steamers expanded. In 1960 the Buchanan 

Bridge Club bought the property. The club take 

pride in this stunning villa and on the Doors 

Open Days will be delighted to give you a tour of 

their club. There will also be the chance to take 

some sample bridge lessons into the bargain! 

Open Sat & Sun 10-4pm, tours on request. 

Sample lessons 2pm Sat & Sun. 

Central Gurdwara Singh Sabha 

With its glorious golden domes and stunning 

pink sandstone facade, it’s difficult to miss 

the new Central Gurdwara on Berkeley Street. 

On the boundary between Charing Cross 

and Finnieston and on the site of the old Eye 

Infirmary, phase one of the new Gurdwara was 

completed in 2016. The size of this huge building 

is second only to the enormous generosity 

of the Glasgow Sikh community. Everyone is 

welcome to the Gurdwara, regardless of colour, 

creed or religion. And who would miss out on 

a delicious meal from the kitchen, free to all 

visitors throughout the year. In keeping with the 

Sikh belief of ‘share and consume together’, one 

of the missions of the Central Gurdwara is to 

help those in need and to provide space for the 

community to gather. 

Open Thurs-Sat 10-4pm tours on request. 

Kelvingrove Bandstand 

A wander through Finnieston sees us arrive at 

our next stop. Following its restoration in 2013, 

the Kelvingrove Bandstand is now a vibrant 

outdoor music venue once again. This summer 

it’s played host to the likes of Texas, The Shires 

and Niles Rodgers and Chic. Come along and 

find out about the restoration and history of this 

unique music venue. On Saturday, take a seat in 

the amphitheatre, relax in the shadow of the art 

galleries and mark National Chamber Music Day 

with live chamber music, courtesy of Enterprise 

Music Scotland. This really has become an 

eclectic outdoor venue. 

Open Sat 10-4pm, tours 11am and 3.30pm 

must be booked. Chamber music 2-3pm. 

The Hidden House 

Take a wander down a normal tenement close 

in West End Park St, Woodlands and enter 

the back court... into another era. Once only 

surrounded by fields of kale, the Woodlands 

cottage is now completely hidden from public 

view. The oldest house in the area, dating from 

1800, this was once the studio of Thomas 

Annan, a celebrated photographer. Take tours 

throughout the festival and experience the area’s 

last remaining dwelling house. The West End 

never ceases to amaze. Who knew that behind 

the vast tenements inhabiting Woodlands there 

stood a little cottage, predating its sandstone 

neighbours? Tours Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun. 

Arlington Baths Club 

Around the corner from West End Park Street to 

Arlington Street, Charing Cross where we can 

‘dip’ into the hidden gem that is Arlington Baths 

Club. Founded in 1870, the Baths Club is the 

oldest Victorian baths still surviving – worldwide. 

It was designed initially by John Burnett but over 

the years has had many sympathetic additions 

by various architects. Still, the baths maintain 

the original Victorian splendour and remains the 

only private members club of its type in Europe. 

Why not take a tour during the festival and 

marvel at those brave enough to use the trapeze 

equipment over the pool? 

Tours Sat and Sun 9am-4pm. 

Mackintosh Queens Cross Church 

Time to jump in a cab if your little legs won’t 

quite manage it, as we travel to our final 

venue. And what a venue to finish on. Here on 

Maryhill Road, one can never have overlooked 

the stunning Mackintosh Queens Cross 

Church whilst sitting at the traffic lights. This 

is the only church in the world to have been 

designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It was 

commissioned in 1896 by the Free Church of 

Scotland and unlike many of the churches of 

the era, whose designs were cold and austere, 

the Queen’s Cross Church wholly reflects the 

warmth and charm of the Mackintosh movement. 

The external and internal architecture, as well as 

the stained glass windows and decorative motifs 

of the woodwork, leave you in no doubt of which 

great designer we are to thank for this perfect 

little treasure in Maryhill. 

Open Sat 10am -2pm, Sun 10am-4pm.


Image I Arlington Baths. © Gregor Reid 

A few select picks of the historic buildings 

that simply litter the streets of Glasgow; is 

it any wonder that the theme of this year’s 

festival is history, heritage and archaeology? 

A plethora of which, I am sure you will agree, 

abounds here in the west. 

The Festival also has an incredible 

programme of 50 heritage walks and tours 

as well as 33 talks and events throughout the 

week. Check out the website for some unique 

days out including artist Toby Paterson’s tour 

of locations influential to the skateboarding 

community in Kelvingrove and beyond. 

For full details of all venues, 

heritage walks and events visit – 

glasgowdoorsopendaysfestival.com 

or follow the event on Facebook – 

GlasgowDoorsOpenDays. 

Doors Open Days is coordinated nationally 

by the Scottish Civic Trust and runs 

throughout Scotland every September as 

part of European Heritage Days. 

For more information visit doorsopendays. 

org.uk, or scottishcivictrust.org.uk. 

Join local historians for walks around our 

local districts, Hyndland and Maryhill. Or 

for something a little more exotic and if you 

are willing to travel (yes, there is life beyond 

the boundary of Anniesland Cross), why not 

enjoy the Clydebank Synchronised Swimming 

Team’s demonstration at Drumchapel Pool? 

A leisurely walk, a reminder of our history, 

visually stunning architecture and reflections 

of our Glasgwegian culture. Now that’s a 

good day out. 

Image I Macintosh Queens Cross Church


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Top Things To Do 

in the West End 

by Tracy Mukherjee 

The lazy hazy days of summer. Given we have 

enjoyed the balmy heights of 17 degrees at 

times, one would be forgiven for looking for 

respite through the cooling breezes of Autumn. 

However, the West End is FAR from done with 

summer festivities. With a thali of delectable 

delights ahead, welcome to our Indian summer! 

Top for Back to School 

Pick Me Ups 

There is simply NOTHING worse than mid 

August for the Scottish child. The weather 

picks up after seven weeks of dreich skies and 

before they know it, it’s that nauseating night 

before school starts. Fear not, dear parents! 

The promise of a trip to Jurassic Kingdom 

at Glasgow Botanic Gardens will put a smile 

on those quivering lips at the school gates. 

Running from 26th August – 10th September, 

this is a cracking outdoor experience for all the 

family. There will be 30 installations of life size 

dinosaurs spread throughout the park for young 

and old alike to enjoy. The dinosaurs are fitted 

with animatronic features meaning not only are 

they life size, they move and roar too! There is 

also an excavation area for the kids to have a go 

at digging up dinosaur bones. With street food 

available around the park, this really is a fun and 

educational day out. The Botanics reached their 

200 year birthday but these gardens are but 

mere striplings compared to their new residents! 

Jurassic Kingdom, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 

26th Aug – 10th Sept, 10am-6pm. Tickets can be 

bought on the door but buying online can save 

pounds, especially if you are going as a family. 

jurassickingdom.uk/glasgow 

Top for Summer Art 

You know an art gallery knows what it’s doing 

when you are regularly stopped in the street by 

the beauty and skill exhibited by the paintings 

in a window. For me, such is the power of The 

Thistle Gallery, Park Road. Describing itself 

as a 'neighbourhood gallery', this is a Scottish 

contemporary art studio. Having new exhibitions 

every few months, The Thistle Gallery presents 

'Summer Breeze'. Evoking every inch of the 

title, the exhibitions includes stunning beach 

scene Water’s Edge by Innes Michie, through to 

the wonderfully textured We Plough the Fields 

by Sandra Moffat. Along with the remarkable 

array of pastels, oils and acrylics, the gallery 

prides itself in showcasing a full array of art 

mediums. Sculpture, textiles, jewellery and 

some truly exquisite ceramics are available to 

buy. Take a wander through this special little 

gallery and let the summer breeze whisk you to 

faraway beaches, without ever having to leave 

Woodlands. 

The Thistle Gallery, 56 Park Road, G4 9JF. 

Summer Breeze exhibiting until Sept 3rd. 

thistle-gallery.com 

Top for Chuckles with Chums 

Lawn Bowls. Wholly confined to our more senior 

residents and with a very strict 'whites only' 

dress code, right? WRONG! For the past few 

summers The Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre 

has been hosting Barefoot Bowls. With no dress 

code, special footwear or the need to bring your 

own equipment, these free sessions are available 

seven days a week. And with the centre being 

open until 9pm each evening, you and your 

BFFs can enjoy some fresh air, exercise and a 

bit of a giggle to boot. The bowling equipment 

is provided by the centre and there is staff 

available to give you pointers on getting started. 

Boys against girls, mum, dad against the kids? 

Dinner is on the losers! 

Barefoot Bowls, Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls 

and Tennis Centre, Kelvin Way, G3 8TA 

glasgowlife.org.uk/sport/our-facilites/Barefoot- 

Bowls


Top Things To Do 

in the West End 

Top for Belly Laughs 

A subway trip, hour train ride, a battle through 

annoying street artists juggling fire (shocker – 

they’ll catch it), to arrive for a 40 minute comedy 

routine at the Edinburgh Fringe. If only those fine 

custodians of mirth could display their goods 

here in the west. What’s that you say? They are! 

Those fine fellows at The Stand, Woodlands 

have managed to convince their Fringe attending 

colleagues that, as we all knew, we are a much 

better laugh in the west. As such throughout 

August, Billy Kirkwood, Bruce Morton and a host 

of regulars will welcome our visitors from the 

east to give us a little fringe comedy antipasti, if 

you will. Prepare to be entertained! 

Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Woodlands Road 

thestand.co.uk/whats-on/Glasgow 

Top for Theatre 

The summer is drawing to a close and we all 

have those memories of a trip to the seaside in 

our younger years. We might even have been 

treated to a '99' ice-cream or a Fab ice-lolly. 

Those memories of a bygone era are beautifully 

brought to the Oran Mor stage in Butterfly Kiss 

by Dave Anderson. The show is a time travelling 

musical, touchingly depicting the memories 

of a youth long gone. It’s funny, poignant and 

perfectly paints a lyrical canvas of 1960, when 

rock and roll and a first 'butterfly kiss' was 

all that mattered. With some charming songs 

too, Butterfly Kiss is the perfect way to wave 

goodbye to the summer. 

Butterfly Kiss, Oran Mor, Byres Road 

24th Aug – 3rd Sept 

oran-mor.co.uk/whats-on/event/butterfly-kissdave-anderson 

Top for a Life on the 

Ocean Waves 

So as September draws out, what better way 

to take advantage of what little sunshine is left 

than a walk down to the Clyde. From 22nd – 24th 

September Glasgow is hosting the Clydebuilt 

Festival, a celebration of all things boaty. With an 

opening ceremony including live entertainment, 

the festival has three main components: shore 

based, on the water and after dark. 

On the shore, there will be crafts workshops, 

music and film as well as fabulous food to keep 

you warm. On the water, there is an exciting 

Castle to Crane race. The rowers have the 

unenviable task of a 13 mile race from Dumbarton 

Castle to the Finnieston Crane. One not to 

miss. There is also the opportunity to take to 

the high seas yourself for some experience 

sessions of sailing. Saving the best till last, 

Friday night’s after dark entertainment will be 

aboard the magnificent Tall Ship for dinner and 

live entertainment. On Saturday get your dancing 

shoes on for the Clydebuilt Ceilidh! 

The festival is set to be a real feast for the eyes 

with, allegedly 'the biggest fleet of rowing boats 

in Scotland since the Battle of Largs in 1263'! 

With longboats, galleys and skiffs, the River 

Clyde will once again be a busy transportation 

route, just as it was for so many years. Even if it’s 

just for a weekend, that makes me smile. 

Clydebuilt Festival, Riverside Museum 

22nd – 24th September 

clydebuiltfestival.com


artisan 

Claire 

Henry 

WORDS 

NICOLA MAULE 

Quality studio pottery is undergoing 

a renaissance. For the last few years 

plates, mugs, bowls and all things 

small batch and handmade are globally 

trending as the accessory of the moment. 

Stylized images in trendy magazines, artfully 

arranged shelves and window displays give 

ceramics prominence as must have objects 

of cool. 

It’s a welcome resurgence for Glasgow 

based potter Claire Henry, ‘Since January 

this year it’s been full on with commissions 

which is great, restaurants and shops are 

asking for bespoke, custom made pieces 

and collections,’ she tells me. Where once 

ceramics would predominantly be sold 

through the gallery space, local shops are 

looking at pottery as an obvious addition to 

other items in store. 

Chris Gallen, owner of Gray’s Deli in 

Broomhill who introduced a range of 

homeware by Claire in July of this year says, 

‘Customers are always asking me where they 

can buy locally made homeware and we’ve 

been fans of Claire’s work for a long time. 

It was the perfect fit when she agreed for us 

to stock her range of ceramics.’ 

It makes sense, in an uncertain and fast, 

technology based world people seek the 

security of tradition, the old in the new. 

That need to ground themselves and engage 

with authenticity by looking backwards 

and often inwards offers a counterbalance. 

The hand-crafted ceramic is a route to the 

simple and essential, consumers continue 

to demand to know the baker who bakes 

our bread, the farmer whose cows offer us 

milk, the local garden and gardener from 

where our salad leaves are freshly grown 

and picked. 

By extension there is a desire to hold the cup 

made by the hand of the skilled potter, to eat


Image © Will Sumner and Dori Czegledi 

our food from something offering a direct link 

to craftmanship, where time and effort can 

be measured, recorded and appreciated in 

making us feel, perhaps momentarily, unique 

ourselves. 

This aspirational connection has not stopped 

at purchase, there is a massive trend and 

escalation in popularity of people wanting 

to experiment with the craft and produce 

their own take home pottery piece. Clare 

says, ‘Demand is high for my evening 

classes, selling out well in advance. I think 

programmes such as the BBC’s Great Pottery 

Throw Down has played a part in fuelling this 

desire to try working with clay.’ 

That soothing image of the meditative 

potter with quietly focussed attention at the 

wheel, alone in their studio has always been 

seductive in offering an antidote to busy 

lives but is not to be confused with the ease 

of making nor the reality of working in the 

profession – there is a skill and knowledge 

base that rests at the heart of all quality 

producers. ‘It takes 2 - 3 weeks for me to 

complete the firing cycle, a process that 

has taught me not to procrastinate. There 

is no room for doing everything at the last 

minute it’s not something that can be rushed. 

By coming along to my workshops attendees 

learn to quickly appreciate the skill and 

difficulty required,’ she tells me.


© Claire Henry 

© Claire Henry 

Born in Canada, Claire studied ceramics at 

the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 

Vancouver gaining an essential grounding 

and training before an exchange programme 

in London and an artist residency in Hungary 

offered a wealth of opportunity to learn firsthand, 

‘Tried and tested techniques, tricks 

that offer efficiency and consistency,’ she 

says. All this, before moving to Scotland – 

her grandparent’s country of birth. 

For over ten years she has been working 

with clay, creating wheel thrown and hand 

built vessels, incorporating traditional 

ceramic design with contemporary surface 

decoration. There is an acknowledged 

influence of pop culture and Dada, the early 

20th century art movement, particularly in the 

application and positioning of non-related 

cut up and collaged images, telling me that, 

‘There is satisfaction for me in placing two 

images that don’t naturally fit together but 

somehow work.’ 

Ironically, authenticity and handmade has 

become a great marketing tool – we only have 

to look at Instagram – our ‘daily feed’ invites 

us explicitly to connect with artisans via a 

platform of curated images. Claire adds, ‘It 

has also been great for me not only in driving 

sales but in connecting with potters all over 

the world, there is a community that are 

online and accessible, I was looking for that 

when I moved here.’ 

Competition is massive when attempting 

to penetrate the world with something 

unique, so for businesses nowadays it’s a 

growing necessity to be using these means 

of exposure. Yet, the power of Instagram 

and social media as a whole is such that we 

can all be influencers and artists, anyone – 

even the unskilled potter can learn the art 

of curating a wonderful theme of perfect 

pictures. 

We learn to market ourselves with a version 

that is distorted and packaged but when we 

hold something physical and tangible there 

is no escape, the experience is there. Social 

media as a tool is driving customers to the 

specialisation that the ceramicist offers but it 

lightly veils the quality of the pieces. 

Finding talented artisans like Claire among 

the many is not often easy, yet functionality, 

quality and skill of the maker wins outright 

in keeping this trend alive. History speaks 

for itself, one thing we know that survives 

far beyond our limited lifespan is pottery 

– significant and key to understanding the 

worlds of ages past, trade, of people, how 

they lived, the food they ate. Objects of 

fashion they may be but the skilled potter 

is an ancient profession of enormous 

importance – vive l’artisan! 

Claire Henry ceramics are available to buy 

at Gray’s Deli and include dining plates, 

espresso and coffee cups as well as gin 

and tonic tumblers. 

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Reviewed by 

David McPhee 

Chelsea? That’s a bit upmarket, innit? 

Well, truth be told, in Glasgow 

that’s a very definite yes and no. But 

we’re talking New York here, not London. The 

gentrification of Finnieston has brought trade, 

acclaim and acceptance to an area that was, 

ten years ago, just a place with a few good 

pubs. Things are just dandy in Finnieston 

right now and Chelsea Market is certainly a 

clear indicator of where it’s likely to head. 

The Times calling the area ‘the hippest place 

in Britain’ has both been a boon and a curse. 

The benefit being that people now flock to 

the area and the payola now flows like Roman 

wine. The downside is that you get places 

named Chelsea Market. 

Now, don’t misunderstand me, it’s a bloody 

lovely venue. The food is excellent, the 

service received was top notch, the drink 

choices are well thought through. The 

problem with the name is that it deflects from 

a stunning menu that boasts a wood pigeon 

(wood pigeon!) starter or crispy shortrib with 

pink grapefruit and pomegranate with honey 

and hoisin dressing. 

The wonderful main courses, such as the 

melt in the mouth Lanarkshire lamb shoulder 

really does show the best our country has to 

offer. Yet, the Scottish focus in their menu – 

Peterhead hake, red deer – belies the New 

York food hall premise on which they’ve hung 

their hat. 

I get the idea that fresh produce is paramount 

here, much like I imagine it is in the venue 

with a New York zip code. The oysters arrived 

cold, expertly seasoned and as fresh as 

you’d want them. I’d assumed that perhaps 

this, paired with a cocktail menu to rival 

Manhattan would be the shtick here, yet I 

received no indication from staff that that was 

the case, so I didn’t order any. 

Maybe you don’t care about a misplaced 

concept. Perhaps you believe that being 

close to an idea is enough. But in a place like 

Finnieston where the concept really needs to 

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mark. Basically, what they’ve decided to do 

here is appropriate the name of a place in 

the same way culturally insensitive festival 

goers don Native American headdress – they 

haven’t meant any harm, but they haven’t 

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Chelsea market is a bit hip – they’ve thought, 

Finnieston is pretty hip right now – they’ve 

thought. And they’ve fallen into the time 

honoured trap of assuming they can add two 

plus two and equal five, and you’ll just accept 

it. Don’t accept it. Go enjoy the food. Enjoy 

the wine. But, in the same way I want to ask 

Sharleen Spiteri: why Texas? Ask why. 

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Summer is waning (I don’t put pants on until Sept 

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When I first arrived in Glasgow thirteen 

years ago I found myself rather 

intrigued by The Doublet. Sitting 

quaintly on the corner where Park Road 

swings round to meet Woodside Road and 

with a timber frontage, it looked for all the 

world like a little West Coast bolthole had 

been lifted and lain within the then student 

Mecca of the West End. 

Yet there was also that red neon sign. It 

hummed and beckoned; it instinctively 

caught the eye as you turned the corner onto 

Woodlands Road. This sign would come to 

exemplify exactly what The Doublet would 

become for me: a little bit traditional, a little 

bit radical, always enticing. 

The downstairs bar is indeed the archetype 

of that West of Scotland pub we all think 

of with it’s dark wood rafters, wooden 

chairs and lived in feel. It’s one of the most 

welcoming places in the West End when it 

comes to decor, but you’ll also get it from 

each member of staff. 

Where in many places you get the feeling 

of being an imposition to the jaded student 

ecking out employment until their undergrad 

is over, in The Doublet they choose their staff 

like they choose their beer: wisely. 

When you look at the drink options you can 

tell that they’ve really thought about this, 

and, out of respect, so should you. For the 

beer drinker there’s Williams Bros, a rotating 

Kelburn choice or the incomparable Riegler 

lager. In the gin corner there’s the delectable 

Rock Rose or Edinburgh Gin. While in 

whisky...don’t even get me started, there 

genuinely isn’t enough room on this page. 

For me, it’s the upstairs bar that really makes 

this pub more enticing than anywhere else 

in Glasgow. To the casual observer it may 

appear just like a room above a bar with a 

little bit of tartan carpet and some old-style 

copper top tables and a jukebox - nothing 

particularly special in that, our philistinian 

friend might say. 

Yet there is the incomparable feeling of 

having shut the world out up there. When it’s 

at full tilt there really is nowhere better to be. 

Hunched over a table, the people at the next 

table are almost touching you – a ghastly 

proposition to those who don’t know what life 

should really be about. 

The Doublet is not retro, it’s not hipster, it’s 

not really trying to be anything, and that’s 

what makes it cool – it doesn’t really care 

what you think. It’s simply a small piece of 

the best things we think about Scotland 

– it wants to welcome you, it wants you to 

have a roaring laugh or political debate with 

your friends, it doesn’t care if you turn to a 

complete stranger and ask ‘is that your pint 

or mine?’ 

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by Michele Gordon thelanguagehub.co.uk 

‘M 

um, which secondary school will I go 

to?’ Ruby has been asking for the 

past 12 months although she only 

heads into Primary 7 this year. It is certainly 

one of the more dreaded questions in our 

house. But there’s still time before we need to 

think about this, isn’t there? 

Technically yes, but we recently found 

out that we will need to register Ruby for 

secondary school in October this year. This 

seems like…tomorrow! How did this happen? 

One minute you become a parent and the 

next minute your baby is on the verge of 

becoming a teenager. 

Making the jump from primary to secondary 

school can be a daunting time. I remember 

my first day at secondary school, the building 

seemed massive and it felt as if there were 

thousands of people rushing around. Then 

there were all those new subjects to get 

your head round, the fact that I now had lots 

of different teachers and, of course, new 

classmates to try and make friends with. 

And as a parent? There is the pressing 

question of which school to chose. Glasgow 

City Council operates 37 secondary schools 

of which 9 are in the west. Children usually 

attend the school within their catchment area 

but often parents choose to opt for placing 

requests at other schools. Ruby’s school 

year is no different. Some of her class mates 

will be going to Cleveden Secondary, some 

are hoping to be accepted at Hyndland 

or Hillhead Secondary whilst others are 

considering Notre Dame High School 

because of its single-sex education. A few 

have already chosen private education at 

Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow Academy or 

The High School of Glasgow; some prefer 

Jordanhill as it operates as an independent 

school. But how do you know which school 

will be best for your child? 

I suppose you look at your child’s academic 

interests as some schools focus more on 

particular aspects of the curriculum than 

others. So if your child is serious about 

dancing for example, you would perhaps 

choose Knightswood Secondary as it is also 

home to The Dance School of Scotland. If 

your child started at Gaelic primary school 

they are most likely to continue with Gaelic 

Secondary education. Unfortunately, there 

is no sports school in the West End, you 

would have to go all the way to Bellahouston 

Academy for this. 

Sadly, there also does not seem to be any 

secondary school near us that focuses on 

modern languages. This would be something 

Ruby would really enjoy. I guess at the end 

of the day there is no such thing as a perfect 

school; everyone has different priorities and 

preferences with regard to education. You 

will probably most likely rely on impressions, 

recommendations and experiences from 

others or the schools’ open days. And of 

course, even if you found the perfect school, 

your child might not get a place due to 

oversubscription. This seems to be an issue 

in the West End from what I have heard so far. 

Personally, I would like Ruby and Leon to 

attend a school which is not too far from 

home so they can meet friends outwith 

school hours. I also think it helps if children 

have a few friends or at least familiar faces 

from primary school going to the same 

secondary school. Other than that, no 

decision has been made yet. After all, we still 

have a few months…


Alec Farmer, founder of Trakke and 

former Glasgow School of Art student, 

has gone from selling backpacks 

made of material recycled from skips to 

creating a bespoke range of last a lifetime 

bags ‘for the modern day adventurer.’ 

What started as a small scale venture, initially 

selling his products at the Barras has turned 

into an international enterprise with his Trakke 

bag concept gaining a cult following and 

selling all over the world. 

‘I started the business with £400’ Alec 

explains over coffee at Trakke HQ in 

Finnieston, ‘As a student I couldn’t get any 

more broke so I was in a good position to 

start up. Some people quit their job and have 

a year to make a business happen but I didn’t 

have that pressure.’ 

Now Alec works with a team six creating 

the bags in-house and selling mainly 

through Trakke’s contemporary website. 

‘We have grown slowly and organically – 

we didn’t appear overnight and take the 

world by storm. We have been building 

and refining our craft for the last seven 

years. I am not from a business background 

so it has been a huge learning curve. 

We work a bit like a car factory and are 

constantly tweaking our designs bringing 

out new colours and updates and listening to 

customer feedback.’


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Work 

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Man bags, beard trims and some 

of the best coffee on Byres Road. 

Loraine Patrick meets the men 

behind three successful West End 

companies and finds out what makes them, 

and their businesses, tick. 

Trakke is Norwegian for follow. ‘This 

company is about people moving in the same 

direction,’ Alec explains. ‘Almost everything 

is done in Finnieston and we source all 

the materials we can from the UK – from 

the waxed cotton of our bag fabric to our 

incredibly strong stainless steel buckles. 

Most of the team started here straight from 

college so we don’t have a lot of industry 

experience but that allows us to look at 

things with fresh eyes and do things in a very 

modern way.’ 

The company are expanding onto the high 

street, aiming to grow but not become huge 

scale. ‘We don’t want to be the next North 

Face.’ Alec acknowledges, ‘I think there is 

a sweet spot where we can do what we do 

very well and support the local economy but 

not be a big high street enterprise. At the 

minute we are in a handful of shops, from 

independent bike shops to luxury department 

stores, where staff know our product and 

have the knowledge and passion to sell it.’ 

Continuing to build on the buzz and 

excitement of the brand is the big goal. Alec 

sums up ‘We choose our retailers for different 

reasons, Fortnum and Mason’s in London 

started off as a collaboration and we advise 

our overseas customers to visit when they are 

in the UK for a unique shopping experience. 

I would love to have our own stores and 

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Artist impression aerial view of the new look Glasgow University campus 

Over in Woodlands, the intriguingly named 

Rain Dogs Society Barbers on Park Road 

is run by 30 year old Kevin McEnaney with 

business partners Ben Cross and Bobby 

Cowan. Named after a favourite Tom Waits 

album, they took the plunge to go out on their 

own after working for several years together 

in the Merchant City. Two years on in their 

distinctive West End premises and they 

haven’t looked back. 

‘Lots of clients came with us,’ Kevin explains 

‘It’s a competitive business to be in but 

between the three of us had a loyal client 

base spanning ten years. There is also a 

definite change in grooming habits and 

men are happier to spend money on a good 

treatment and cut now. My customers tend 

to be in the 18-25 year old age bracket but 

you don’t have to be a trendy young thing 

to come here, Ben and Bobby’s client base 

spans all age groups!’ 

Kevin was shortlisted for the Scottish Barber 

of the Year award this year, and has serious 

plans in place to grow the business. Later 

this year the trio are looking at opening 

a second barbers shop in the city centre 

and are also planning their own product 

range. ‘We have a chemist on board and are 

aiming to produce an organic based range 

of hair products as we have never found 

quite the right formulation to suit our, or our 

customers, needs.’ 

With over 13 thousand followers on 

Instagram and an online booking system for 

appointments Kevin is social media savvy 

and knows this is key to bringing in new 

business. ‘Although we are working around 

50 hours a week I am posting on social media 

every day and my account is linked to our 

booking system – there is also a phone app 

to book with us directly. We make it as easy 

as possible for our clients to book with us.’


Christmas 2016 at Vinicombe Street 

Dean Marriott from Dean’s Deli on Byres 

Road is also successfully using social media 

to market his business, preferring Instagram 

over Facebook and Twitter to promote his 

great coffee, home baking, sandwiches and 

melts. 

He explains he posts real time, real life 

pictures, ‘what you see on our Instagram 

feed is what goes out to our customers. 

It’s a quick snap when we are preparing 

something. I don’t want to add filters or 

photoshop and make things look too good 

then not deliver it! We have great interaction 

with our customers on social media.’ 

Pass the coffee shop on any day of the week 

and you will see it busy with locals, students 

and passing trade and for 29 year old Dean 

its been a long held ambition to run his own 

business. He went solo last October after 

working for several years with the Di’Maggios 

group, gaining experience in the bar and 

restaurant trade, and he thinks his successful 

start up has been down to delivering what his 

customers want. 

‘It was really apparent from the word go 

that folk were not looking for a traditional 

delicatessen, he explains, ‘We asked what 

people would like to see and have built up 

the business from there, so the majority of 

our menu has been picked by our regular 

clientele. In the West End it can be expensive 

to grab a coffee or eat out, so a key focus 

for us is affordability. We aim to offer great 

quality home made food and cakes that don’t 

cost the earth, and our coffee is under £2.’ 

This ability to adapt to the local market and 

change business plan is what has made 

Dean’s so successful, as the idea at first 

had been to run a traditional deli. ‘Its really 

important to be open to changing course 

but at the same time you need a clear plan 

when it comes to running your own business. 

I am pretty focused and a details man. I 

knew I could run a deli but it was vital to be 

able to adapt when we moved in a different 

direction.’ 

Dean, like both Kevin and Alec, is passionate 

about his business. ‘It’s great to be part of 

something new he sums up, I have been 

welcomed into the local community and have 

much to achieve. I saved all my life to get 

here and now I am focussed on getting on 

with the job!’ 

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Matters 

by Bruce Wilson & Simon Murrison 

Accounting basics for small businesses 

Google ‘how to start a business’ and 

you are bombarded with lists, tips 

and hints. Working with a diverse 

range of businesses – from start up to exit 

– I’ve learned there’s no simple formula for 

getting it right. However, the entrepreneurs 

that do succeed, work hard to avoid making 

rookie mistakes (or learn quickly from 

mistakes). 

Here are examples of rookie mistakes with 

simple ways to avoid them: 

• Relying on gut instinct. Write a Business 

Plan. Call it a survival manual for start-ups. 

• Trying to do it all. Outsource to experts, 

allowing you to focus on areas of business 

you are good at and enjoy. 

• Poor business systems. Choose a 

reputable accounting system with features 

designed for small businesses. 

• Ignoring red tape. Confront head on 

changing legislation and tax regulations to 

avoid storing up problems and losing the 

business. 

• Repeating the same mistakes. Break 

the cycle by using accountancy data to 

accurately monitor and forecast future 

business decisions. 

• Wrong business structure. Consider the 

future position of your company structure and 

who you do business with, it affects tax to be 

paid. 

• Not researching. Test and research 

products, services and marketing to build a 

strong business. 

• Not negotiating. Ask for discounts. A new 

trader is entitled to discounts when setting up 

trade accounts or rental agreements too. 

• Ignoring the competition. Keep an eye on 

the competition – new products or offers will 

tempt your customers away. 

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Writer’s Reveal 

meets Charles McGarry 

WORDS LORAINE PATRICK IMAGE GREGOR REID 

Have you ever secretly thought you 

could write a book? Perhaps you have 

a great idea you think would make a 

great read? 

I must confess to wishfully thinking I could 

write a children’s book on this or a best 

seller on that, but from all the authors we 

have interviewed at Westender one thing is 

clear – the road to getting published can be 

a long and bumpy one. Even for the most 

established of authors. 

We talk to one newly published local writer 

who shares his long journey to the high street 

book shop and gives us a taster of his new 

book The Ghost of Helen Addison. 

Charles E McGarry is a new name to the 

world of Scottish crime fiction, having signed 

a two book deal for his Leo Moran murder 

mystery series the first of which came out 

this summer. It took years of revisions and 

rewrites to find a publisher and this up and 

down journey is described in a six part


I think there is a third 

book for Leo Moran 

but I also have other 

ideas to explore. 

“and agents know how to make a book 

commercially viable.’ 

Val McDermid and Christopher Brookmyre 

share their experiences in the podcast series 

which goes right back to Charles first putting 

pen to paper in his Broomhill flat with his first 

foray into writing several years ago. In 2012 

he co-authored a fictional account of Celtic’s 

1967 victory in the European Cup, which this 

year celebrated its 50th anniversary. The 

Road to Lisbon was well received and gave 

Charles the confidence to develop his crime 

series. 

The Ghost of Helen Addison is the first 

of two books featuring a colourful private 

investigator called Leo Moran, a man who 

likes the finer things in life and has an 

unsettling ability to talk to the dead. Set 

between the West Highlands and West End of 

Glasgow the two locations couldn’t be more 

different – one an eerie remote landscape 

in the depths of winter and the other the 

regimented beauty of the tenements of 

Glasgow’s West End. 

podcast series called Debut, which features 

interviews with some of the biggest names in 

crime fiction. 

Charles takes up the story, ‘I actually wrote 

the first draft of the book pretty quickly and 

although it didn’t get picked up I used the 

feedback that came with rejection letters and 

realised I needed to restructure the timeline 

of the story to make it work. You can’t be 

precious about your ideas, you really need 

to be able to take criticism as publishers 

‘Leo has a flat in Kelvinside,’ Charles picks 

up, ‘and I really tried to conjure up the 

aesthetics and the morose beauty of the 

area. I think the world here looks much the 

same as it would have done 100 years ago 

and that suits Leo’s old fashioned outlook.’ 

Growing up in Jordanhill and now living in 

Broomhill has had a profound impact on 

Charles and he hopes the setting will strike 

a chord with local readers. ‘Leo is a well 

dressed and cultured man and he couldn’t 

live anywhere but the West End. He is very


much intertwined with the setting. Leo is the 

archetypical bachelor, genteel but with a 

working class background’. 

Leo is based partly on Charles himself but 

also on men from Charles’ fathers generation. 

‘He is an anachronism, he might as well be 

from before the war in terms of his outlook. 

He is a middle aged bachelor who loves 

beautiful things and beautiful music.’ 

Charles goes on to explain there is also a 

comic element to Leo. ‘He can be really 

pompous and put people’s backs up – he 

takes himself too seriously. This side of his 

character was inspired by the main character 

in a favourite book of Charles’ called 

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy 

Toole, a cult American novel published in the 

1980s. 

But Leo has something that’s set him apart 

from most – he communicates with the dead. 

According to Charles his visions come when 

he is asleep and they tend to be oblique 

representations of things that have happened 

so he feels duty bound to help police. This 

supernatural element is crucial to the story as 

it humanises the young murder victim (Helen 

Addison) by giving her a voice and readers 

see what her loss has meant to her loved 

ones. 

Charles goes on to say, ‘In the UK we are 

reticent about talking about this as a route 

to help in criminal cases but in some parts of 

America and Europe police are more open to 

exploring the psychic realm. Indeed the ideas 

for this book all came in a short space of time 

and one was a TV programme on psychic 

ability.’ 

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In five years time Charles would love to be a 

full time author. ‘I think there is a third book 

for Leo Moran but I also have other ideas 

to explore. What I would really like to do is 

write a post apocalyptic novel set in the West 

End but I don’t want to give too much away 

just yet!’ 

And for budding authors out there he has this 

advice. ‘Don’t be intimidated by the length of 

a novel. If you write 250 words a day over 360 

days that is 90,000 words! Breaking it down 

into bite size portions makes it much more 

achievable.’ 

Tips from the Top 

How to get published 

Be willing to take criticism 

Rewrite the previous days work 

after sleeping on it – you get a 

clearer perspective 

Write everyday, be disciplined! 

The Ghost of Helen Addison is out now. 

Charles E McGarry will be at 

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Fortune Works Centre in Drumchapel with some of Enable’s members and volunteers 

Celebrating 60 years 

of excellence 

by JENNIFER MCILROY 

What does community mean to you? 

For many adults living in Scotland 

with learning difficulties it can 

mean isolation. However, for over a halfcentury, 

ENABLE Glasgow has provided 

one of Glasgow’s biggest circles of support 

for people with learning difficulties and their 

carers. 

Born in 1954, ENABLE Glasgow was the 

association of parents when there were very 

few support services for families. Today, 

ENABLE directly supports almost 200 people 

with learning disabilities and has more than 

400 members across the city. 

Under the control of its members, ENABLE 

offers something of interest to everyone. 

Foremost is the Fortune Works centre based 

in Drumchapel, providing a full time 9am – 

4pm five days a week programme, which 

offers a diversity of training opportunities 

with a strong focus on personal and social 

development. But there is so much more. It 

runs two supported living units, a training-forwork 

service, a range of social opportunities, 

and support in people’s homes as well as 

campaigning at local and national level. 

In the West End are two residential services, 

Esmond Street and Balshagray Drive, with 

clubs in Summerston, Charing Cross and the 

Gorbals. 

The Project 

Over the past year, ENABLE Glasgow have 

been celebrating 60 years of hard work. 

Looking for a challenge? Then look no further. 

Members and supporters have been tasked 

with the challenge of raising £60 to mark 

the anniversary. The hard part is that you’re 

not told how to raise the money – that’s the 

challenge! 

They aren’t that mean of course and have 

provided a few ideas to get you started; 

• Invite friends over for a coffee morning 

• Have a dress down day at work 

• Sign up for a sponsored walk or swim 

To round up a year of strong fundraising 

efforts, ENABLE will be celebrating in style 

by hosting a Dinner Dance at the Grosvenor 

Hilton Hotel in the West End on the 30th 

September. The dance will give members the 

chance to dress up and celebrate the end of 

the 60th Anniversary year.


Karen (Second from Right) with Enable members 

The early years at Balshagray House 

Case Study 

Karen MacKenzie, Social Activities Coordinator 

for ENABLE Glasgow shares her 

experience. 

What made you join Enable? I started as a 

volunteer in January 2008 at the Wednesday 

night social club in Charing Cross and found 

it extremely enjoyable and rewarding. When 

the opportunity arose to take voluntary 

redundancy with the Civil Service where I had 

been working for over 18 years I jumped at 

the chance to change career. 

After volunteering to gain more experience 

in one of the residential support services I 

was offered some sessional work supporting 

a lady in her own home for a few hours on a 

Sunday. This quickly led to an offer of a part 

time Support Assistant position in Balshagray 

House. Whilst there I completed my SVQ level 

3 in Health and Social Care. After working 

in all three of the services over a few years 

the post of Social Activities Co-ordinator 

was created and I was successful in my 

application. 

Half of my job is to organise various annual 

events and fundraisers for ENABLE such as 

dances, bus runs and fundraising nights. The 

other half sees me supporting volunteers 

who run our three social clubs and the Best 

Buddies programme in the South and North 

of Glasgow. 

What has changed over the last five 

years? The organisation has expanded 

considerably over the last five years with both 

Fortune Works and the residential support 

services growing and developing. 

How does Enable compare to your last 

job? Changing career to work for ENABLE 

Glasgow has been the best thing I have ever 

done! It’s very rewarding and uplifting on a 

daily basis to see the difference I make. 

What has Enable taught you? Not coming 

from a care background and having never 

spent any time with anyone with a learning 

disability I was starting from scratch. 

The training and support I have received 

from ENABLE Glasgow staff has been a 

fundamental part in my progression. 

How do you plan the social calendar for 

the year ahead? There are set events which 

have ran every year for the last 40 odd years 

such as clubs, dances and bus runs. We ask 

our members regularly to give us ideas of 

what else they would like to do such as nights 

at the Grand Ole Opry or Movie nights. We 

have a Social Committee who then decide on 

what the year’s programme should look like 

and this is made up of people who volunteer 

in our clubs. It really is the unique balance of 

those two words, support and community, 

that has helped ENABLE to work so well. 

If you are interested in volunteering please 

contact Volunteer Co-ordinator Jane 

Feeney for more information: jane.feeney@ 

enableglasgow.org.uk. 

In order to run all the various activities 

ENABLE relies on financial contribution 

from its supporters. If you would like to 

participate in the project, please visit 

justgiving.com/enableglasgow to do so. 

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Homes & Interiors 

by Susan 

Robertson 

© Annie Mo's 

A BOLD 

statement 

Sometimes the plethora of options available for 

presenting our homes can make it confusing to 

know where to start. Susan Robertson offers 

some suggestions for building a room around a 

signature piece.


© Bluebellgray 

© The Store Interiors 

Whether you’re looking for a slight refresh or a total 

overhaul of your home interiors, there’s always going 

to have to be a starting point, and sometimes that 

can be harder than you first think. With so many 

wonderful options available for your home, it can be 

easy to find yourself running around like a headless 

chicken looking at the different ideas available to you. 

I would suggest that you take a bit of a methodical 

approach to this. It may seem counter-intuitive to 

be structured in a creative process but an overall 

framework can be really helpful to achieving a 

coherent outcome. 

Think of a room a little bit like a delicious main 

course at a top restaurant. When you’re perusing the 

menu, you’ll likely make your initial choice based 

on the core, main item on the dish – either the meat 

or the alternative central feature. Then you’ll look 

at the vegetables and garnishes around it as what 

complements the main item, and what you will 

actually enjoy is the overall taste and presentation of 

the full dish as a whole. If you apply the analogy to a 

room, it can be really helpful as you pull together a 

new look and feel. 

So, applying this thought process in practice, start 

with a core, central signature item to ‘hang’ the rest 

of the room around, and the process of doing this will 

really help you identify your own tastes and bring out 

your own individual style. It’s much more satisfying to 

create a space for yourself and your family that really 

reflects your uniqueness rather than looking like 

you’ve just transported the Next catalogue into your 

living room. 

It can be easy to fall into the trap of picking some ‘nice’ 

colours and slapping on the paint and we so easily end 

up with rooms that are ‘fine’. But we really should be 

looking for more than that, and have a bit of fun with 

it. Start keeping an eye on social media like Pinterest, 

and taking snaps on your phone of rooms or furniture 

or looks that you like, that can give you a feel for your 

own taste coming through. Pop all of these into a 

mood board and see if any patterns develop, or if any 

clear colour schemes come through. 

Depending on which room you’re working on, start 

looking for a signature ‘lead’ piece to structure 

around. In a living room this can be a bold sofa or 

vibrant rug. Also – keep looking at fabrics as, if you 

find one that you really like, you can use this to reupholster 

some existing furniture – it doesn’t need 

to be a brand new item. Just find something that you 

really love, that makes you smile inside when you 

think of it, that lifts your spirits when you see it. Then 

the rest of the room will flow from there and be great 

fun to create.



Taking the colour or fabric of your ‘lead’ piece, start 

to play about with more fabric. Pick up the key tone in 

other patterns and develop a palette of patterns, these 

can be used for curtains and cushions, then pick out 

one or two key colours for the wall from this, and a 

couple of bold highlighting colours for floor cushions, 

lampshades and throws. Think about the furniture 

and fittings in line with this too – what works best – 

wood or metal, dark or light? Play about with all of 

this using clippings and pictures on a big pin board 

first and you will see your dream room come together 

before your eyes. 

The other key element to consider in this process is 

the ‘feel’ of the room. Would you like it to be dreamy 

and romantic; fun and funky; cool and calming for 

example. These ‘feelings’ will instinctively come into 

play as you select your signature piece to hang your 

room around and it can be useful to try and articulate 

them to yourself and be aware of this as you develop 

your theme and palette. It can be helpful to keep this 

in mind as you pick up accessories and items for the 

room as your emotions at the time will affect your 

decisions so keep your desired theme at the fore and 

align your purchases to that, rather than your mood 

of the moment. 

The West End offers a vast array of opportunities 

for selecting what you need for your home. New 

technology has made it even easier for artists to 

translate designs into fabrics and useable pieces and 

so think of buying a signature or lead piece almost 

as you would in selecting a piece of art. Bluebell Gray 

brings beautiful art into fabric and home features; 

some of the stunning one-off pieces that Timorous 

Beasties create can almost stand alone in a room; and 

vibrant individual pieces can be sourced through the 

expert eyes of buyers at The Store Interiors, Nancy 

Smillie or Annie Mo’s. 

These days, you can even make your own! 

Individual designs can be easily transformed into 

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let your creativity flow and have a look at sites like 

spoonflower.com. Let your own imagination, in 

partnership with local retailers and designers 

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Dreaming of an Indian summer 

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Legal Matters 

Words from Donald Reid, chairman at Mitchells Roberton: 

If you live in the West End the chances are you’re in a tenement. 

There’s a great book out at the moment by retired lawyer Angus 

McAllister entitled ‘Close Quarters’. It’s a story about the neighbour 

from hell in a Glasgow tenement near Byres Road. He hounded his 

fellow residents to take their turn cleaning the stairs, observe deathly 

quiet after 7pm and all the rest of it. They hated him. Here follows some 

sound advice collated from helping resolve just such confrontations. 

Neighbourliness and 

cleaning the wally close 

Ifrequently get asked about neighbour 

matters. Someone is hogging all the visitor 

car parking spaces. The upstairs proprietor 

keeps letting his bath overflow and then 

makes a terrible din carting his children and 

their prams up and down the common stair. 

Another neighbour chains his bike to the 

stairway railings making it difficult for you to 

get past when you need to take out your bin. 

All amusing in the telling, but for the people 

involved it can be a living nightmare. As a 

lawyer I find I am often a bit impotent to help. 

Usually by the time a problem comes to me 

both parties are dug in deep. The suggestion 

that maybe they should back off and show 

a little tolerance meets with fury. Or the 

worst thing of all for a lawyer to hear is ‘It’s 

the principle of the thing.’ I just know I’m 

going to fail the test of achievement versus 

expectation. 

Then tell yourself you will try one more thing: 

a note through the letter box, a lawyer’s letter 

or whatever, and if that does not work you 

will do no more and content yourself you 

have at least tried. Above all let time pass if 

you can. People move. People get new jobs. 

People die. Or think about moving yourself. If 

you do, I can guarantee within a month you’ll 

have forgotten all about it. Until, that is, you 

discover your new next door neighbour is 

hard of hearing and loves Sydney Devine. 

If Donald can help please contact him 

by phoning 0141 552 3422, or by email 

at dbr@mitchells-roberton.co.uk. 

So what should you do, poor tenement 

dweller, if you get into a fight like this? What 

I would say is this: decide to do one thing 

at a time. Try ringing their bell and speaking 

nicely. If that doesn’t work don’t immediately 

escalate. Pause and decide if you want to go 

further, because the further you go the more 

difficult it becomes to stop. 

Mitchells Roberton Solicitors 

& Estate Agents 

George House 

36 North Hanover Street G1 2AD 

0141 552 3422 

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by Susan 

Robertson 


As we enjoy the season of summer 

light spilling through our homes and 

gardens, Susan Robertson looks at 

colourful and practical ways to dress 

our windows to the world. 

shades of 

summer 

© Glasgow Shutter Company 

The long days and expansive evenings of the 

summer create a wonderful atmosphere and 

brightness in our homes, so how do we make the 

most of this beauty, and how also do we ensure we 

get our weekend lie-in, and the kids can get beyond 

the 'but I can’t go to bed, look it’s still day time' 

confusion. 

It’s all down to just a bit of thought into how we 

manage the balance between dark and light. It’s 

worthwhile when doing any design or decoration in 

your home, to think of the impacts and your family’s 

needs at all times of the year. In the long dark winters 

we have here, the challenge is to maximise natural 

light into our homes, and the shorter summer 

seasons, we have the opposite scenario on our hands.


When I replaced the blinds in my home at the 

beginning of the year, I made the mistake of taking the 

cheaper option and not bothering with the black-out 

versions. This was no problem in February but trust 

me – when you can’t see the telly on a Saturday night 

because the sun is streaming through, and I’m up 

with the larks on a Sunday morning, I’ve realised a 

longer-term approach would have been much better, 

and what I saved initially had to be spent on resolving 

the scenario anyway. 

So, the main thing is to look at each room individually 

and its practical use for the family. Ideally it’s good to 

have the opportunity for each space in your home to 

have full control of light coming in and out but there 

are going to be areas that obviously matter less and 

more and have different priorities. For example, the 

bathroom windows – the priority is privacy but natural 

light is less of an issue here and these windows tend to 

be smaller anyway so you can take a simple approach 

with a practical blind to soften the hard edges of the 

window frame. Many bathroom windows have frosted 

glass for privacy but if you don’t, you can easily sort 

this with some sticky-backed sheets to create a frosted 

effect at very little cost. 

The kitchen is another area where natural light levels 

are less critical. Again, simple blinds are good here too. 

I tend to avoid curtains in bathrooms and kitchens – 

anywhere there’s splashing or heat, blinds or shutters 

are more practical options. 

Roller blinds are a versatile option, available in lots of 

colours/fabrics – as well as black-out options. Or you 

can also go for roman blinds, in my opinion these are 

a bit more appealing on the eye. They’re a good option 

for kitchens and bathrooms where you want to create 

a softer look and still have the practicality of the blind. 

Remnant Kings can help out with this, they’ll design 

and fit it all so all you have to do is decide on your 

fabrics. If you’ve ever tried to ‘resize’ an Ikea blind with 

a hacksaw and ruler, you’ll have learned the hard way 

to just get the experts in next time! 

The other option here of course is to use shutters. The 

Glasgow Shutter company is right on our doorstep here 

and can provide the expert guidance you need around 

this. Plantation shutters are an attractive and practical 

option for controlling the light, as well as adding 

soundproofing and insulation benefits. You can get 

these tailored to suit your home, in a range of styles 

and stains of quality hardwood, fitted professionally 

within about eight weeks. 

The living and bedroom areas are where a bit more 

thought is needed. In the living room you want the 

access to light to be quite flexible. You might have the 

TV on and want to shade the bright evening sun but not 

actually block out the evening. You might want to catch 

that sun for curling up with a book, at the window, or 

you may want to block it all out and snuggle in with the 

candles on. I would therefore be inclined to think in 

layers for living areas. 

The practicality and flexibility of blinds is great here, 

and you can now get these in any style or fabric to 

complement your room. Or you could consider thin 

lace drapes, Timorous Beasties do some lovely fabric 

options for this. This is great for privacy where needed 

so you can let the light in but still potter about in your 

jammies without the people across the road sniggering 

into their G&Ts. Then you can double this up with 

thick, full length curtains, and you’re sorted for all 

seasons and activities. 

There are so many great suppliers in the West End 

for fabric and tailored curtains, we really are spoilt 

for choice. You can make a statement through fabric 

and colour here, try Bluebellgray for some stunning 

artwork re-worked around your windows. 

This approach works well for a bedroom too, but 

definitely do not make the same mistake as me, and 

make sure that you go for the black-out option on 

blinds and thick, lined curtains to really make it time 

for bed when you want, and dark and snug on a Sunday 

morning, irrespective of the world outside. 

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Wee Kitchen Shop 

Beautiful Custom Made Contemporary & Traditional Kitchens 

When I ask Jenny what she can’t live 

without in her new kitchen, the 

answer comes fast ‘the Quooker 

boiling water tap! It was an extravagance that 

was well worth it. I’m sure I’m making much 

better use of my time now I’m not constantly 

waiting for the kettle to boil!’ 

Friends recommended local Broomhill 

business The Wee Kitchen Shop to the family 

as they liked Greg’s approach and ideas. 

And from their first meeting they knew 

they were going to receive a personal and 

bespoke service from its cabinetmaker 

owner, Greg Bowers. 

Jenny continues, ‘the existing kitchen came 

with our new build house and was designed 

by a builder, not a designer. Although it was 

functional and looked ok it didn’t make best 

use of the space, was 16 years old and was 

beginning to look a bit frayed round the 

edges. Now there is far more storage space 

and light. The design and layout mean it’s a 

space where we can socialise, cook and eat 

– we now use this room more than we use our 

other living areas in the house.’ 

With it’s fully staved solid oak peninsula, 

Corian Dusk worksurfaces and custom made 

matt white handleless cabinetry – it’s Scandi 

good looks are equally matched by it’s 

adherence to function and maximum use of 

the storage space available. 

‘I would recommend Greg and his team 

without hesitation (and have!). It was a great 

benefit having Greg cost and manage the 

whole project.’ 

30% off Silestone, Corian & Granite 

worktops ordered before the 30th 

Sept’ 2017. Please call ahead for a 

FREE consultation appointment at 

The Wee Kitchen Shop premises. 

The WEE Kitchen Shop 

304 Crow Road, Broomhill G11 7HS 

0141 334 4747 

www.theweekitchenshop.co.uk 

info@theweekitchenshop.co.uk 

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EST 1999 

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