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Editor’s
Letter
W
ho needs an excuse to get outdoors
when we’re only 30 minutes drive to
Loch Lomond & The Trossochs
National Park to the north and a short hour
from the stunning Ayrshire coast to the
south? We lucked out with the weather on our
latest swimsuit fashion shoot (see P.8) down
at Troon – or Costa Del Troon as it is now
know at Westender HQ! What a great day out
we had, I mean what a hard shift we all put in
to make the images the very best they could
be, ahem.
However there’s a lot to keep us closer
to home over the next couple of months –
the West End’s out and about scene just
keeps giving! Read Greg Kane’s round up of
great gigs from The Doghouse Roses at The
Doublet to Paul Simon at The Hydro (P.16),
and our Tracy’s fave picks from the Pride
Glasgow march in mid-July to the European
Championships the first two weeks of August
on pages 18 and 19. And as always with the
long school summer holidays in full swing,
Michele Gordon of The Language Hub, has
plenty of ideas to keep your wee cherubs
entertained on page 21, or just a break from
killing each other and muttering the B word
as it’s known in my house (yes, I do mean
‘Boring’!).
Above: Suzanne Martin, Westender editor.
Below: On location in tropical Troon for the
summer 2018 swimwear shoot with model
Katie Lapping from Superior Model Management.
Living in such a beautiful country with
some of the best produce to be found in
the world and the most dramatic scenery,
it falls to us to live as lightly on this earth as
is humanly possible – a theme writer Loraine
Patrick picks up with this edition’s business
article on Page 42. Three local companies
are tackling plastic waste, congestions and
pollution, and standardised business models,
in light of a desire to do better for the planet
today.
And Mother Earth and her bounty gets a
community together on Page 50 – and we’re
all invited! New members are being actively
sought for The Back Garden G3 Growers
and you don’t need to have green fingers
– yet, that will come. Help is needed to bring
in the harvest and it’s all hands on deck in
this wee hidden gem in Finnieston. It’s a
fantastic way to get the kids outside, off the
Xbox and learning where their food comes
from whist making new friends. Let’s face it,
the nights will be drawing in soon enough –
so head out and about in our glorious West
End and enjoy it, fingers crossed, in a bit of
sun!
Suzanne Martin