Wednesday 20 January 2010

The Third: "Sugarolly"


The Third: "Sugarolly".

This time around it's all about the street games in old Glesca. We hear all about the wee toerags wreaking havoc with the tenement folk tying their doors together with rope, catching hudgies at the BRS depot in Lister Street, being chased by Limpy Dan from the Kennedy Street playground, making what sounds to have been a very early poor man's version of soda stream drinks except with a particularly dodgy ingredient, and playing endless football through dinner which consisted of jeely pieces thrown down by the parents from the windows above.

Ah yes, you might get your PS3s and your HD TVs nowadays, but if the kids of today were to listen to this episode, without a shadow of doubt they'd choose "kick the can" or "dreep the dyke" over all your fancy technology any day. Ahem...

Tuesday 19 January 2010

The new one's on its way

This is just a wee post to let you know that we're getting back into the game tonight.  My faither and I will be dusting off the microphone and hope to mull over the old games he used to play in the streets of Glasgow growing up in the 40s and 50s.

Look forward to me trying to understand the stories about making "sugarolly", catching "hudgies" at the BRS depot on Lister Street, and playing "P or a K" with the lassies (apparently that's "Punch or Kiss"!).

The new episode should be available tomorrow at some point, all going to plan, and I'll let you know once it's up.  Thanks for the emails to glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com in the meantime, and keep them coming in so we can read out your memories of Glasgow on the show.

Monday 4 January 2010

Happy New Year

Yup, happy 2010 folks. That's it for now. See you soon.