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Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

2010 - Glasgow Scotland

Came across this song when the singer, Jesse Buckley, was on The Colbert show. She is an Irish actor and singer.

The song, Glasgow, is from Wild Rose , a 2019 musical drama starring Jessie Buckley as a working-class young woman from Glasgow who dreams of moving to Nashville to become a country music star.

Glasgow (No Place Like Home)

I've worn out the stones in front of your doorstep
Coming and going, coming and going
You kept the lights on, I always knew that
I should've said "thank you" a thousand miles ago
But I pushed you away, put a pin in a map
Then I got lost in the storm

Had to find my own way, make my own mistakes
But you know that I had to go
Ain't no yellow brick road running through Glasgow
But I found one that's stronger than stone
Ain't no place like home, ain't no place like home

Moon hanging low over my window
Shoebox of dreams hid under my bed
Follow the bright light city of gold

I had to leave to realize all I needed was here

Mama, we both know that there's nothing
That a little time and Patsy Cline wouldn't fix

Had to find my own way, make my own mistakes
But you…
Source: Musixmatch

British Isles Friday

Hosted by Joy's Book Blog.

It's been ages since I've contributed to British Isles Friday. But reading Joy's post today where she commented "separated by a common language" and then posed the question what have you learned about English, the language.

This made me think about the difference in English even within the British Isles and something made me go and look at our photos from Glasgow Scotland from May 2010 and came upon this sign.

I had posted some photos from the People's Palace on British Isles Friday last year.

I had also done a post on the different use of words on each side of the pond back in 2012 in this post which also happens to have photos from the People's Palace on that same trip.

I cited the word "steamie" and the numerous ways it is used.  Hot dogs, gossip and laundry - all using the same word??

British Isles Friday

Joy's Book Blog is hosting this weekly meme.

May 2010 - Glasgow Scotland

On a wet dull day...

We visited the People's Palace in Glasgow.

The Doulton Fountain, gifted to Glasgow as part of the International Exhibition of 1888, was moved to the Green in 1890. Designed by architect Arthur E. Pearce, the 48 ft tall fountain was built by the Royal Doulton company to commemorate Queen Victoria's reign. It featured a 70 ft wide basin, with a slightly larger than life-size statue of Queen Victoria, surrounded by four life-size statues of water-carriers representing Australasia, Canada, India and South Africa.

A lightning strike in 1891 destroyed the statue of Victoria, and rather than let the city replace the statue with an urn, Doulton paid for a second hand-made statue to be produced. In the 1960s the fountain was allowed to fall into a state of disrepair with the water supply being turned off. However in 2002 a £2 million restoration program was started that restored the fountain to its original condition. As of 2004, the fountain has been placed in a new location, in front of the People's Palace

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Mellow Yellow Monday

I'm posting over here today.

Taken in Glasgow Scotland at the People's Museum, a delightful museum dedicated to the people of Glasgow and the changing times.

The caption displayed beside the boots in the museum:
‘Glasgow pop artist Edmund Smith designed and made these boots for Billy Connolly in 1975. Billy ordered a pair of size 9 ‘bananas’. When the first one was made the artist remarked that the second one would not be identical, as bananas never are, and so it was given the Fyffes label. The boots made their first appearance on stage at the Music Hall, Aberdeen, in August 1075. The documentary ‘Big Banana Feet’ was filmed in the same year. It took its title from the boots that almost became Billy Connolly’s trademark at the time.’
If you've never listened to Billy Connolly here's a clip but be warned he uses offensive language.

Wondrous Words Wednesday

 

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading and is hosted by Bermuda Onion.

I haven't come across very new words lately so I thought I would share some old posts I wrote about the meaning of some words.

Steamie - a Quebec hot dog. All-dressed (Montreal Style) : This hotdog, nicknamed a 'steamé', is topped with mustard, chopped onion, and sauerkraut. Sometimes fresh coleslaw or chopped cabbage is used instead of sauerkraut. Relish is usually available, but in the oldest hot-doggeries, e.g., the Montreal Pool Room (now Le vieux Montreal Pool Room), "all-dressed" means without relish. All-dressed typically does not include ketchup, which must be requested specifically.
A must have when we visit Montreal!!

Steamie - where Glasgow women would wash their clothes in a public washhouse (steamie).
According to Allotment 2 Kitchen's blog where I first came across this expression it now refers to a "gossip room".  The Scotsman newspaper online has a blog called "The Steamie".
I took these photos when we were in Glasgow at the People's Palace and Winter Gardens.