Well, it’s been a while. Hopefully I will be more regular from now on, but I think I always say that every time I resume posting after yet another hiatus.…

THE GENERAL NEWS ROUND UP BIT It’s been a while – a long while – since the last update, so I do apologise to my long-suffering followers. It’s been a…

In spring a not-as-young-as-he-was-man’s fancy turns to blog. It’s about sweet time it did, in fact, for, as blog-follower Derek Bainton pointed out in a recent email, dialectograms have been…

I have finally completed the drawing of the Concierge office at Red Road Court, and have duly moved on, with very little further ado, to the next drawing on the…

I write from up on my space at red road – a lovely day, though the wind’s up a bit. Progress is steady but in worried it’s still too slow…

Work continues on the Red Road dialectograms, with a greater sense of purpose now an actual deadline – the end of November – has been put on a whole series…

Over the past couple of weekends I have finally begun to get to grips with the third strand of my Dialectographic adventures, the Barras market, and I must say, I…

I post this – the first dialectogram from Red Road – with a sense of genuine relief. I feel like I have been gnawing at the edges of the project…

As Glasgow gouges out half its eastend to make way for the M74 motorway extension, our vision of urban improvement and renewal already seems woefully behind the times. This thought…