The Clydeside Distillery Took a trip through to Glasgow on Friday last week to visit the Clydeside Distillery. I started the day by taking some time to wander around Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. I saw the Dali again as usual – see Part 139 of this blog – along with Van Gogh’s Portrait of … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 176
Tutankhamun My first encounter with Egyptian history was at the British Museum in London in 1972. I was a young lad then, and my father had taken me on my first trip to London to see the loan exhibition from the Department of Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt to mark the 50th anniversary … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 166
Glasgow Transport Museum As noted in Part 139 of this blog, I’m a big fan of Dali and always like to view St John on the Cross in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow whenever I can. I managed to fit in another visit, before heading over to the Transport Museum. This is one of … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 160
Newark Castle Heading out to the West coast, I stopped off at Newark Castle. A little confused at first when I entered the details into Google maps as there are in fact two castles in Scotland with the name Newark. One in Fife, overlooking the Firth of Forth, the other in Port Glasgow, next to … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 150
GOMA I managed to take in the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art or GOMA as it’s known. I hadn’t been back since the Banksy art exhibition in the autumn of 2023 (details can be found in Part 60 of this series). Fewer crowds this time, but still busy. I was pleased to see the statue … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 149
The Dark Side of the Moon The Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium was hosting The Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd and I was fortunate to get a ticket and go along to listen to what is one of my all time favourite albums. I could spend all day writing about Pink Floyd … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 140
Dali I noted in Part 84 of this blog that one of my favourite paintings, Christ of St John on the Cross by Salvador Dali, was due to come back home to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow after being on loan to Spain and I would arrange to go back and view … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 139
The Melville Room Regular readers of this blog will know I’ve visited a number of the many sites that were featured in the filming of the Outlanders series and this week has been no exception. I was in Glasgow twice, my first trip for a cyber conference and the second taking advantage of an invite … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 118
Nick Mason I went to see Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets which is a massive deal for me. I’ve been a Pink Floyd fan for decades, have all the albums, special editions and several dozen books. As noted in Part 76 of this blog, I met Nick at a book signing in Edinburgh, at the … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 105
Charles Rennie Mackintosh One of the reasons I love to walk wherever I can is, you never know what you might miss if you take the car. In cities, bus tours are a good option, because you don’t have to concentrate on driving, but even then, a bus tour round a city is only going … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 103
The Fiction Factory 