I was back in Glasgow for the first time in almost almost 35 years. Back to South Nitshill. What a change, for the better of course, and how the things that used to be HUGE (like the big hill we used to ride our bikes down or how we'd steal some cardboard from behind he off-sales and slide down the other big hill in front of the Nia roo) were just so small and disappointing haha. But some things hadn't changed, the Nia roo, the wee building that was a chippy then a million other things and st Bernard's. Time stand still for no one. It was an absolute blast to be back. But one thing that was missing from when I was a lad, there were no kids. None in the parks, none playing football, none running around. Just the odd bottle of buckfast in a bag on the ground.
by fitchiestofbuckers
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>But one thing that was missing from when I was a lad, there were no kids. None in the parks, none playing football, none running around. Just the odd bottle of buckfast in a bag on the ground.
A bit spooky, isn’t it ?
You can attribute some of that to there being more stuff to do indoors, and the weather being a bit wet past couple days. But not all of it.
Some areas, it’s due to when the area was built/rebuilt. I come from one of the New Towns, so it was like… the areas which were newest, had lots of young children around. The schemes built 10 years previously, had teenagers. The schemes built 20 years previously, you’d hardly see any children at all. This lasted for a while, but as houses changed hands it became a bit more diverse. They took a lot of the play areas away though – dismantling chutes and climbing frames etc. So there’s not a lot for children to really do outside.
You can’t just leave it hanging there with half a story! Now I’m invested, I need to know where you went for the last 35 years. I’m praying it wasn’t just for a career in accountancy in Aberdeen.
The Nia Stabba has to be one of the roughest & shittest pubs in the city surely!!