Glasgow Cathedral At Sunset From My Window.

I thought that the title of this post would explain everything but it doesn’t quite.

I took these photographs from my living room window last night at 10pm and they show the silhouettes of Glasgow Cathedral and The Royal Infirmary Hospital…

You May Also Be Interested In:
* Room With A View
* Larking Around Glasgow Cathedral (PART I) & (PART II)
* The Trongate, Glasgow

Extraordinary Animals In The Womb.

These amazingly detailed embryonic pictures come from a National Geographic film called “Extraordinary Animals In The Womb” and they show elephants, dolphins, cats, dogs, penguins and a shark.
I’ve been staring at them for an hour so far.

Photos From The “World War Z” Glasgow Set.

It’s really strange walking around the centre of Glasgow just now. Every so often you’ll hear the words “Dead Body”, “Zombies” and yesterday, I even overheard a wee girl say “Is this Judgment Day Dad?”.
It’s quite creepy.
The “World War Z” production has rolled into town!

For roughly 2 weeks, George Square will be doubling for Philadelphia as Brad Pitt films his scenes for the post-apocalyptic zombie flick “World War Z” and if you ask me, it’s one of the best things to happen to the city for a while. The streets are totally buzzing!

I live 5 minutes walk away from the set and I’ve been going down as much as possible. I can’t believe how quickly the Square has been transformed to look like Philly and we’re not just talking about putting a couple of American flags here and there either.

Painted road signs and markings have been removed and replaced with American signs, traffic lights have been pulled down and been replaced with (much cooler looking) ‘WALK’ and “DON’T WALK’ signs and streets have been renamed.

The really cool stuff happened a couple of days ago when a huge car crash was staged! Surprisingly, the producers of “World War Z” have no problem with the public getting up real close with their cameras most of the time and yesterday, we got to walk along the crash scene which was great because they actually had dummies lying dead in their crumpled cars and…actually, shall I just shut up and show you some of the the photos I took?

You should get yourself down to George Square and take all of this stuff in because in a matter of days it’ll all be gone.
Click HERE for a video of the car crash.

Bela Lugosi And Summer In Glasgow Green.

We took a stroll on down to Glasgow Green the other day because the weather was good and because I hardly ever get the time to go anywhere during the day these days :)

Photos are funny things ain’t they?
You get the picture but you never really get the FULL picture.
I mean let’s look at this photo of Anna:

Just as I was about to click my camera and take this picture, a dog barked and we heard a big gruff Female voice say:
“SHUT IT YOU!”
Just another lazy, dawg dangling day in the park…

We found these horses:

The brown one in the middle went up on it’s hind legs to reach a tree branch which made me exclaim:
“Holy shit Anna! Look at how big that horse’s Ding Dong is!”
And it was only then that Anna pointed out that there were young kids everywhere looking at me :(
…And then the horses buggered off.

Speaking of young kids,
I also managed to get us lost in a fenced off area of the park and the only way out was to go through a massve kids playpark.
Anna thought we might look odd just stumbling randomly around a really busy playpark so I decided to do the obvious and invent a child.

Yeah, basically I thought that if anyone approaches us, I’ll just say that I’m looking fo my lost Son Bela.
In order to make this convincing I walked through the playpark shouting out: “BELA! BELA! WHERE ARE YOU MY SON?”

I’m a great actor but not as good an actor as Anna because she was doing a really convincing job of pretending to be completely mortified and embarassed by me shouting on my non-existent Son.

Just as I was about to approach someone and ask them if they’d seen my pointy hair-lined, jaggy toothed, hungry, Hungarian Son Bela, we found our way out of the kid’s playpark and all was well.
It was really warm as we strolled on out of that park and I saw a man sitting down with his top off and drinking cans of lager.

I said to Anna: “Look at that guy. He’s got the right idea. Couple of beers, lying in the shade, relaxing.” but Anna pointed out that he was sitting way at the back of the playpark we’d just escaped from and he was on the opposite side of the security fence just drinking lager and staring into the playpark.

I should’ve got a photo of him really and passed it on to the coppers.

Room With A View.

This is the view of Glasgow Cathedral and The Royal Infirmary from my front window.
I took these 2 nights ago at 10pm because the sky looked cool and because I also get a really clear view on account of my curtains falling down last year.

 

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