Strathbungo Newsletter Dec. 2013
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Strathbungo News! The Strathbungo Society A Quarterly Newsletter!!!!! December, 2013 Historic Scotland on Crime prevention tips energy conservation from our community policing team Page 4 A new community The Bungo Birl - organisation: Friends pictures of Queens Park Page 5 More on the Interviews with Sam Strathbungo Society and Anna of bakery47 AGM The New Strathbungo and crafter Rosie Ilett Then and Now Society’s early years Page 2 Page 3! Back page Bungo Birl a Success! The present clubhouse dates from the 1920s, Bungo at the and it’s a wonderful venue with a good- Alison Hunter, Paola Rezzilli and Allison sized dance floor, plenty of seating and a Hussain put a great deal of work into well stocked and reasonably priced bar. ! Bells! organising an autumn ceilidh for the Every ticket to the event was sold, the raffle Strathbungo’s Hogmanay street party is on! ! Strathbungo community, and it was a fun prizes were fantastic and the Birl was evening for all.! Bungo at the Bells is a much-loved annual especially popular with young families. tradition. It’s an old-fashioned and family The evening started with a short walk to Everyone was entertained by all the dancing friendly street party. This year, the Downies' the Queen’s Park Bowling Club, over in toddlers in tartan dresses and kilts. What at Moray Place and Marywood Square will Crosshill. The bowling club is nestled into could be cuter? ! be the epicentre. ! an odd-shaped piece of land across from The raffle was a huge hit, too. Lots of people We’ll be gathering at the intersection of the park, and has been in continuous participated and the prizes were Nithsdale and Moray Place just before operation since 1867.! outstanding. See page 3 for more details. midnight. The procession will head over to Marywood Square with as much fanfare as we can muster. Bring musical instruments Strathbungo Society and noisemakers! ! Annual General Meeting There will be a few refreshments available (AGM) Results! and an amplification system for the music. If This year’s Strathbungo Society AGM featured a you normally park in that area, you might review of the past year’s events, new ideas for want to park elsewhere on the 31st.! next year, and the appointment of officers:! You don’t need to go to the city centre or Chairperson: !Teresa Mooney! Edinburgh to usher in 2014 right. Bungo at Vice Chair: !Allison Hussain! the Bells is the best party around. Secretary: !Alison Hunter! Treasurer: !Bryan Miller! Moray Place ! Topics this year included the future of the & Marywood Square! Mission Hall on Nithsdale Drive, plans for Tuesday, 31 Dec. 2013, 23:50 the Commonwealth Games, and the recent The Cosmic Ceilidh Band at the Bungo Birl! DM spate of break-ins. More on page 3. Nithsdale Road and Moray Place between Brighter Bungo! 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Glasgow City Nithsdale Road ! BM! Council supplies all the equipment, so just & Moray Place ! If the lanes outside are frightful! bring yourself. Whether you can make it for Sunday 19th January ! the whole 2 hours or just a short amount of 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.! They can be made delightful! time, your help will be greatly appreciated.! In a couple of hours or so! At the wintertime Brighter Bungo! Come join us for our next community cleanup on 19th January. We'll be at the corner of Local Enterprise bakery47! Holiday Notes! DM! The Glad Cafe is opening a charity shop. They’re looking at a location very near the cafe, Sam and Anna of bakery47 went into and they want to open before Christmas. If business a year ago with one residential you’ve got anything you could donate - clothing oven and door-to-door bread sales. Today, or small items - please e-mail they’re baking approximately 130 loaves of [email protected]! bread and almost 600 pastries per week. Gusto and Relish is planning a special holiday They hand-deliver three times a week - meal in a sandwich - the Cranwich - and a Wednesday evenings, Saturday mornings Burn’s Supper for January 30th. ! and Sunday mornings - to 80 homes and Buddies Strathbungo is open! Enjoy Texas style four cafes. It’s the most old fashioned and barbecue and Quebec-style poutine without the the most modern of business models.! usual 2,500 mile separation.! The Allison Arms has won a Gold Award from Both Sam and Anna are arts graduates. They Anna and Sam photo by Paul Harkin Best Bar None. Congrats, Allison Arms!! have worked as bakers before, but the Sam and Anna are thrilled with the Locavore has Christmas gift hampers full of opportunity to start an independent opportunity to work together, locally produced food! business came when Sam was in between independently, creating food that’s hand jobs. He started baking for friends, family crafted from the preparation to the Lovestruck Cheesecakes will have special and a few neighbours in Cathcart. His top packaging, with very little waste. It’s an Christmas flavours, and they’re making their space available for holiday gatherings.! marketing tool was free shortbread, and it enterprise that’s working for them as a was very effective! Word spread quickly and creative outlet and a business. They’re The Bungo has holiday menus for December and by May, Anna had quit her job so that she proud of their work, and they’re getting a will be serving a set dinner on Hogmanay, with could commit all her time to bakery47, too.! lot of positive feedback. However, they’re live entertainment in the Bungo-low.! Bakery47’s bread and other baked goods are working very hard, seven days a week Cookie has festive holiday lunch and dinner menus, a special Christmas Eve dinner, and a beautifully made and absolutely delicious. and as much as 20 hours a day. As more five course tasting menu for Hogmanay.! It’s no wonder that they’re doing so well people discover their baked goods, that they're thinking about expanding out of demand is growing. They’re still taking Mulberry Street is having a Disney-themed New their flat and into a larger space. Sam and new residential customers, and they hope Year’s party.! Anna want to grow their business, but to be able to take on new commercial Dentistry on the Square, on Niddrie Square, has they’re not sure they want to become a customers soon.! won "Highly Commended Practice of the Year - South” at the Dentistry Scotland Awards 2013. storefront bakery; they are unwilling to “Our work at bakery47 is about care, attention Congrats!! compromise on quality and freshness. ! and detail. It is obsessive, demanding and Little Botanica has festive wreaths hand-made Bakery47 concentrates on locally sourced consuming. It is about personal contact, intimacy and community. It is about the past: to order and Christmas trees with delivery and and seasonal ingredients, but they’re more disposal included.! concerned with vision and creativity than remembered traditions, nostalgia, religious Merry-Go-Round is expecting an visit from with 100% local content. Sometimes they routine and humble values. It is about design Santa Saturday 21st December from 1-3pm.! use wild garlic or brambles foraged in and aesthetic: the visual, the tactile and the Glasgow’s Pollok Park. Sometimes they sensual. It is about quality of product made Panda House and Shimla Pinks are serving include Italian olive oil or Turkish figs.! using traditional methods and crafts, the holiday meals on Christmas and New Year’s simple pleasure of great food.” Day. New Anand is open on Christmas but not Bakery47’s bread can be found for sale by New Year’s. Call or stop in for details and to book.! loaf and in sandwiches at Locavore and the Learn more at www.bakery47.com. ! Glad Cafe. They’re also doing pop-ups and E-mail [email protected] to ask to be Rock and Rollers is having a Christmas raffle.! an occasional catering job, like the Bungo added to the home delivery mailing list. There’s something new in the works at Birl.! Grianach's old location. 1960s and one whom still crocheted and knitted An Interview With Rosie Ilett! blankets for 'old folks' up until her death in her Rosie grew up three miles from Heathrow Airport and has 90s. I started doing cross-stitch at school, and then lived in Moray Place since 1996. She works in the NHS designed and knitted dolls clothes and jumpers and is also an academic. She is married to commentator for my brother's Action Man - probably before I and academic Gerry Hassan and they live with their 14 was 10. From about 13, I started making and year-old ginger tom, Jaspar. ! knitting a lot of my clothes, and from my late teens/early 20s have always made and sold things DM u ! How, when and why did you get started I have made as a side-line and antidote to my making and selling crafts and vintage children’s main job - I've done everything from making books?! earrings and knitting jumpers and making greeting cards from vintage ephemera, to doing RI u ! I have been making things since I was very tapestry and making rag rugs and have had stalls young, inspired by a crafty mother and at craft events, vintage fairs and car boots from the grandmothers - one of whom was an amateur 1970s. (cont. next page)! milliner and made frothy chiffon creations in the Rosie Ilett, continued! making it.