BUNGOfest is less than 2 weeks away!

Saturday 8th October will see a string of free microperformances and workshops in your local bars and cafes from 11am until 7pm. These are being brought to you by the Strathbungo Society in association with The Arches.

Keep your eyes open for the posters round Strathbungo and the full program to follow, read about it in the Strathbungo newsletter, or pick up a flyer from one of the venues in the next few days.

For now, click here forthe details of the kids’ workshops in Tapa:

Kids Workshops poster

Does anyone have a garage in Strathbungo that they would be willing to sell or rent?  Get in touch with me at scott@scottandlaura.co.uk or call me on Tel. 0141 423 0182.

With Strathbungo’s new rubbish and recycling collection service in full swing, many of you may be impressed at the way the lanes are emptier of bins already…

Or maybe not.

I have spent an hour this morning trying to repatriate green bins to their owners; I did my best, but many don’t have numbers, so if you wander up the lane you might recognise one that has ended up in the wrong place and can reclaim it.

Meanwhile, I am doing my best to get the council to sort this out, and Land and Environmental Services have agreed to send representatives to the Community Council meeting on 6th October at 7.30pm at Shawlands Academy, and to our own AGM on 11th October at 7pm in Queeens Park Parish Church. If you want your say, why not come along?

Meanwhile, Councillor David Meikle has helped us out with the responsible council members, whose names and titles are below:

I have e-mail addresses for them all, but feel I ought only to post those publically available on the GCC website: “Booth, Robert (LES)” <Robert.Booth@glasgow.gov.uk> and George Gillespie <George.Gillespie@glasgow.gov.uk>. Please feel free to help out and send further letters or e-mails to those below so they can see the extent of the problem.

• Robert Booth, Executive Director Land and Environmental Services,
• George Gillespie, Assistant Director
• Andy Waddell, Neighbourhood Services Manager
• Stevie Scott, Neighbourhood Services Manager South
• Dougie Gellan, Area Manager South

The date for this year’s Strathbungo Society AGM is Tuesday 11th October, 7.30pm at Queens Park Church of Scotland, 170 Queens Drive.

Please come along as we look back on the year for the Society, plan events for the year ahead and elect new office bearers. It is only as a result of volunteers coming forward at the last meeting that the Society is able
to put on events like Bungo In The Back Lanes and BUNGOfest so we’d love to see new faces as well as familiar ones.

The event is usually wellattended by our local Councillors, so it’s a great opportunity to express your views about the area and what you’d like to see changing over the coming year.

All are welcome but you need to be a member of the Society to vote on motions. You can sign up on the door.

I don’t normally post stuff about things to do in the area, but this one caught my eye as it promotes itself as a venue in which people from different ethnic groups and backgrounds can meet and mix together socially. For as we know, while this area is very culturally diverse, there seems that there is little intermixing between the various ethnic, religious, social and, dare I say it, class backgrounds.

Any venue that can bring people together more is, in my view, a very good thing and should be supported.

Thing is, I can’t work out where it is going to be. They are having a bash this weekend at La Roche Rumba this weekend which looks like cracking fun. But I can’t see anything on their website to suggest where the cafe is going to be located. If anyone knows then please do include the address in a comment on this post or let me know and I will add it.

This is what they write about themselves,

The venue will be open in the evening to provide a home for creative new and world music and other artforms that exist outside of the mainstream.

It is intended that the Glad Café will be a café/venue based in the Pollokshields/ Govanhill area of Glasgow – the heart of Scotland’s most ethnically diverse community. We’ll provide freshly prepared seasonal food as well as a warm hub that will encourage people from different backgrounds to meet and mix informally. In addition, we’ll also have a well equipped, 200 capacity venue that will be open in the evening to provide a home for creative new and world music and other artforms that exist outside of the mainstream.

And I do love their video.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone was looking for a babysitter? I’m an 18 year old female who stays in Vennard Gardens looking for some part-time work and experience to stand me in good stead for my Primary Education Course at Glasgow University. I am a trustworthy and responsible individual, my contact details are as follows:

Phone Number:  07805091747

E-mail:  naomiforrester@hotmail.co.uk

Address:  41 Vennard Gardens, Strathbungo, G41 2DB

Not that we got much of a summer but you can be the first to read the latest Strathbungo News now: Summer_4pp_v3 The print edition should be available from the end of next week – do get in touch if you’d like to help out with deliveries.

The Council is currently carrying out rodent control works in Queens Park.

Regular users will probably have noticed a few of our brown furry foes scuttling about in recent weeks.

It appears some unscrupulous fast food outlets have taken to dumping food waste in the ponds and other areas of the park, attracting the little blighters.

As the population is quite widespread, it’s advisable to keep dogs on leads and children well supervised while the baits are out.

Our lovely cat Haggis has gone missing from Nithsdale Rd on Friday. She is a very shy and frightened cat so we are all very worried about her. If you see her please email me caroline@candysnaps.co.uk or phone 07833331183

Thank you!