Totally fabulous original haberdasher’s cabinet, brought from an old-fashioned clothes shop on Pollokshaws Road years ago when it closed down, and selling as too big for the room its in. This is a great item, that holds lots and could work in a bedroom, kitchen, workshop anywhere. It measures 23″ width from front to back, 36″ deep from top to bottom and 60″ across from side to side.

There are 16 drawers, with brass handles, and most of the drawers are in excellent condition, one or two on the bottom need a re-glue. The glass at front and sides is intact and the Art Deco style feet are there, although one needs sticking back on. There’s lots of nice features like the original measuring tape as shown, and it only needs a clean up to be an amazing piece of furniture.

This has to be collected from Moray Place, on the ground floor and would need at least three folk to remove it. Price £750 ONO – a bargain, as these iconic pieces sell for £1k+ now. Email me on rosieilett@hotmail.com or leave comment if interested.

My Shawlands is a great new idea that needs your support.

Set up by the Shawlands Business Association to encourage more people to shop and spend locally, a Facebook page has just been developed to give a platform for businesses in Shawlands town centre to promote offers for local people including discounts, deals of the day, two-for-one offers, and other exciting promotions.

The page needs a minimum of 200 likes before the businesses will roll out these offers, so sign-up today and tell everyone you know too.

While you’re there, why not join the Strathbungo Society’s pages too? Search for Strathbungo Society and Brighter Bungo.

Anyone want to share thoughts on the communication – or lack thereof, the use of Gross Annual Values, anyone else being charged for two properties when they clearly only own one? Etc, etc

We have 20 or so Gardeners Delight tomato plants if anyone local wants some. They’re all healthy, but in little pots and need re-potting. All left over from Bungo in the Back Lanes. Come and collect from Marywood Square before Wednesday….just give Jim a call on 07980708742.

For several years now, the Strathbungo Society has been affiliated to the Scottish Civic Trust, which is the national body for the civic movement in Scotland.

The Trust comments and campaigns for the improvement of Scotland’s individual buildings and areas of distinction and is the umbrella body for over 100 civic and amenity groups across Scotland. SCT also runs the My Place Awards which celebrates good local design and conservation as nominated and evaluated by local people and co-ordinate Doors Open Days.

The Society’s chair attended a meeting arranged by the SCT last month to discuss setting up a Glasgow-specific civic forum along the lines of a similar network in Edinburgh. The minutes of the meeting are available here: GCF Minutes 15.6.12.

The proposed remit of the Glasgow Civic Forum is to:

• provide a forum for community councils, local associations, amenity and civic groups to discuss issues of common interest
• strengthen the dialogue between civic groups in the city and share best practice
• encourage greater interest and involvement in national planning and built environment initiatives.

The Chair will be attending the initial meeting of the Forum on the 24th July when we will also elect a chair/convenor for the GCF and discuss the Scottish Government’s Architecture Policy consultation which ends in early September.

We feel the GCF could be a real force for good in Glasgow’s civic society and also provide a great opportunity to work with other groups on issues that affect us all, creating a strong voice on campaigns such as that against VAT on repairs to listed buildings and an opportunity to share ideas and expertise.

And it doesn’t just have to be heritage issues. Voluntary groups in all areas of civic society could benefit from the support and information of the Forum. Membership is free and open to representatives of the following groups within the Glasgow City Council boundaries:

• Community Councils
• Street Associations
• Area Associations
• Civic/amenity groups
• Local interest groups

The Forum is not open to private individuals, political groups or commercial organisations.

If you’re involved in a group that would also like to send a representative, or if you have any questions, please contact Gemma Wild at gemma.wild@scottishcivictrust.org.uk or 0141 221 1466.

Thank you so much to everyone who turned out on Saturday to set up stall, visit gardens and help the community celebrate our unique local heritage together. Despite an inauspicious start it turned out to be a great afternoon with sunshine, a lovely atmosphere and lots of friends, neighbours and complete strangers visiting our lanes.

We got some really lovely comments from visitors and great press in the build up to the event and it reflects the real affection our unusual annual street party is held in:

http://southsidehappenings.blogspot.co.uk/

http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/going-out/events-info/107243-neighbours-get-together-for-bungo-in-the-lanes/

There was also a nice article in The Extra but the web page is not working just now.

The Society traditionally takes a summer break after our big event so volunteer energy levels can recover, however we will be meeting again on August 20th in The Bungo Bar, so if you enjoyed the event and want to get involved why not come along?

We’ll publish an agenda nearer the time but the meeting will also be attended by Dougie Gellan of Land Service (the bin people!) so it’s a good opportunity to talk over the niggling refuse collection issues in advance of our autumn AGM (date TBC). We gave the council the attached document to consider at a meeting earlier this month: Strathbungo_Bins

We all appreciated how great the lanes looked this year. The engineering work carried out earlier in the year did make a big difference to the drainage on Nithsdale/Regent and Regent/Queen lane in comparison to the other lanes and while not quite the even surface we’d imagined there has been improvement. We were also pleased the the Council worked so hard to get the bulk rubbish cleaned away and the lanes strimmed before the event. It makes a huge difference – but can we, the community, keep them like that?

Finally, we’d love to get your views about the event. What did first-time stall holders or attendees make of it, what could we do in the future, what was your favourite part of the day and, if you have any photos, we would love to see them! Comment here or email chair@strathbungo.co.uk

Glasgow City Council played their part today and have cleared and strimmed the lanes. On a quick walk around this evening, some of the lanes have never looked tidier but there’s always room for improvement.

Please could residents take their bins out of the lanes and into their gardens or tuck them away as discreetly as possible. Getting them out of the lanes makes it much easier for folk to move around.

The weather forecast is not great but also seems quite variable. I’ve seen forecasts for cloud, sunshine and showers and light rain for the event and today’s thunderstorms weren’t on the forecast last night so we’ll take it as we find it. The event will be going on regardless.

There are a few puddles around, especially on Marywood and Queen lane and the stretch between the two – I’d recommend wellies for everyone! There’s also a couple of hazards to watch out for – a rickety fence on Vennard and Moray Place, a hole in the ground on Nithsdale and Regent and some canisters of non-specific liquid on Vennard Gardens.

St Andrew’s Ambulance will be present on the day and the best place to look for lost children is the children’s garden. If in doubt, grab any of the stewards in a hi-vis vest and/or bungo t-shirt.

We’ll see you there!

Fancy helping put on Glasgow’s “best local community event”? The Strathbungo Society is always looking for extra volunteers on the big day to help us get things ready and pack things up.

Victims of the success of the event, we’ve found ourselves with a smaller volunteer pool than ever this year because everyone wants to enjoy the day and set up their own stall. Sound familiar? You can help before and after the event doing any of the following:

• Putting up (and later taking down) gazebos, moving tables and chairs, putting out A Frames etc: Meet at 9.30am on Saturday at 26 Marywood Square or follow the noise in the back lanes. For packing up, come to the Society stall at 4pm.
• Baking: We’d love donations of home baking for our tea garden on Marywood and Queen Lane. Just drop it off on the day.
• Prizes: We’re taking donations of prizes for the tombola until Friday evening. Drop them at 53 Queen Sq.
• Making space: Not holding a stall yourself? We have several stall holders looking for a pitch. They will squeeze in wherever they can on the day but if you’ve got a great garden or yard you think could be used by someone else, get in touch and we can send them your way.

Contact: chair@strathbungo.co.uk

So, I really hope this is wrong:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/brollies-up-for-month-of-rain-in-just-4-days.17927974

Thankfully, the BBC and STV both have a more optimistic forecast of sunshine and showers.

Let’s see if we can come up with creative water-based fun in the rain. Apple bobbing, anyone?