Alex Glass
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RaintownAs the weather during the summer was a bit wet I thought it would be worth starting a topic where everyone can post the photos they may have taken during the rainy summer.
Some photos of the World Pipe Band Championship - Beat the Retreat in George Square the Friday before the competition.
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fastnet
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Great idea Alex.
Pretty grim this day as well.
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james73
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Glasgow is indeed Raintown. And I always thought this song summed it up perfectly.
I remember seeing Ewan Vernal (the DB bassist) with Fish - he played on one of
the big mans albums....
James H
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Alex Glass
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Thanks Fastnet and James 
I had always planned to make a video of photos and video taken when it is raining and putting the Deacon Blue - Raintown as the backing track.
May still give it a go at some point.
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fastnet
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Oops..............Is this just meant to be a Glasgow thread ??
Apologies if it is........................ 
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Alex Glass
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Rains Rain in any town.
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Stuball
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Gives me a chance to air this little gem again 
and a few others
This is scan of a print.... taken on my old olympus OM10 about 11 years ago I think... maybe 12 now
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fastnet
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That 1st pic is a belter Stu....................
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Alex Glass
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Crackers Stu
Love that first one but they are all good. 
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cybers
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Yer Stu everytime i see that pic i think yes thats Glasgow alright ....
When it's dry its great but if we are all really honest we secretly like a bit of rain.
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kev
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Me... I love nothing more than looking out my tenement window after a hard days graft with a nice glass of red in hand watching the rain coming down...Canny beat it..
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cybers
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| kev wrote: | | Me... I love nothing more than looking out my smashed tenement window after a hard days claiming with a nice glass of bucky in hand watching the rain coming down...Canny beat it.. |
Ohh very bourgeois
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Lone Groover
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Texco car park, Hairymill.
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Saltmarketeer
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| cybers wrote: | | kev wrote: | | Me... I love nothing more than looking out my smashed tenement window after a hard days claiming with a nice glass of bucky in hand watching the rain coming down...Canny beat it.. |
Ohh very bourgeois |
That reminds me of a Billy Connolly joke. He had a Glaswegian mate who used to make his visitors a fried egg and call them bourgeois for not wanting to eat it out of their hands.
On-topic - I LOVE the rain.
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kev
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| cybers wrote: | | kev wrote: | | Me... I love nothing more than looking out my smashed tenement window after a hard days claiming with a nice glass of bucky in hand watching the rain coming down...Canny beat it.. |
Ohh very bourgeois |
I have ..for the record..never tried bucky..I have however tried its sister drink ..Eldorado..
As a young man in the early eighties working in Govan shipbuilders on the nightshift it seemed everyone was pi$$ed all the time.Which wasnt true but a lot of bevying went on.
The winter of 1981 was horrendously cold and the yard being next to the river was an awful place to be working in.
Managed to talk my foreman into putting me into the bar bay in the shed where I would gas cut the steel frames using that were used to stiffen the ships..The plater who did the making off of these bars was an old guy called Dinger Bell and he used to drink a bottle of EL.D a night somtimes two.
Funny funny guy who had been in the war and used to tell all us youngsters that he had been a dispatch rider for General Montgomary and he was on first name terms with "Bernard" He told us he was in a Dakota on the morning of D-day sitting on his motorbike and when the light turned green he drove straight out of the plane the parachute automaticly detaching itself when he hit the ground so he didnt waste any time riding to see Monty....Superb..Anyway he used to give me a small cup of Eldorado to warm me most nights that winter and have to say it worked a treat...
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Alex Glass
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Thanks everyone for contributing.
Sometimes threads just take on their own life and it is good to read some personal stories of ordinary life in the Raintown. Please keep it coming.
Post any photos at any time of Glasgow in the Rain. Tell us your stories or even find a Glasgow related song that mentions the raintown
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Stuball
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How about Tinseltown in the Rain?
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Saltmarketeer
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| Stuball wrote: | | How about Tinseltown in the Rain? |
Blue Nile?
Classic, absolute classic!
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Lone Groover
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Alex Glass
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Pollok Park in the RainAt the Glasgow Highland Cattle Show today
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cybers
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Did you eat anything off the Quality Catering van....
I did at Scone Palace... All i can say is am glad my teath were my own
and i had never had Steak Flavoured Bubblegum before.
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iiisecondcreep
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| cybers wrote: | Did you eat anything off the Quality Catering van....
I did at Scone Palace... All i can say is am glad my teath were my own
and i had never had Steak Flavoured Bubblegum before.
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I think that is the same lot that catered for the Gathering. Really, really disgusting.
Anyway, here is my contribution, taken on a mobile phone.
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cybers
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| iiisecondcreep wrote: |
Anyway, here is my contribution, taken on a mobile phone.
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That is stoating down in that stoating pic...
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fastnet
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Just remembered about these.....
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Doog Doog
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Alex Glass
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Wednesday 4th NovemberSauchiehall Street In The Rain
Buchanan Street In The Rain
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Doog Doog
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Lone Groover
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Alex Glass
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Very artistic LG. Was that taken from a bus?
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Lone Groover
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| Alex Glass wrote: | Very artistic LG. Was that taken from a bus?
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Thanx Alex, It was a bus shelter at Partick Bus Station.
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cybers
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| Lone Groover wrote: | |
Cracker
Puts me in mind of an Album cover but cannot for the life of me think which one 
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Lone Groover
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| cybers wrote: | Cracker
Puts me in mind of an Album cover but cannot for the life of me think which one |
Know what you mean, but can only think of this one, and thats not it......
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Alex Glass
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steviem
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| cybers wrote: | | Lone Groover wrote: | |
Cracker
Puts me in mind of an Album cover but cannot for the life of me think which one |
Cybers,
had this one in mind but maybe showing my age.  Nice one LG.
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Alex Glass
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fastnet
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How about some indoor rain.
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Doog Doog
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Stuball
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Puddle in Linn Park
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steviem
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Nice one Stu
Too slow to get out the car and rainbow had nearly faded 
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Doog Doog
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good ones,peeps
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calamity
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| Stuball wrote: | Gives me a chance to air this little gem again
and a few others
This is scan of a print.... taken on my old olympus OM10 about 11 years ago I think... maybe 12 now
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like this one..
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Doog Doog
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belters,Stu
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Lone Groover
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