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