The Molendinar Burn still runs from Hogganfield Loch and empties into the River Clyde at Glasgow Green, but as the vast majority of it runs under the streets in culverts now, you wouldn't know it's there. I tried to follow it today 1/n It starts now at Frankfield Loch then runs along a man-made cut past the Stepps playing fields of Strathclyde Uni. Into Hogganfield Loch it goes. 2/n

In anticipation of the new book from @PeterAlanRoss coming out this week, exploring graveyard stories, I have indulged my taphophiliac tendencies today with a Sunday morning jog around some old Glasgow cemeteries... I started at the Glasgow Necropolis and the Glasgow Cathedral graveyard. Some of the best views of the Necropolis are afforded to those in the beds of the Royal Infirmary. Always thought that was a bit ghoulish.

In 1348 when the plague ravaged Florence, some people had the means to flee the city, leaving the poor to endure (from The Decameron, 1353). In 1665 the plague killed thousands in London. The law forced any households where plague was found to be locked up and guarded, eg self-isolation to reduce spread. Daniel Defoe records that those with the means fled to evade this.

There should've been only one, but they kept making them. Had a bit of bother tracking down the third one, but that's it arrived now, so I'm going in. #Highlander Two down, two to go. I've watched Highlander about a million times before. A lot of old codswallop, but entertaining codswallop. I first saw it at the ABC cinema on Sauchiehall St. I was walking past, and met 3 girls I knew from school that were in the Q and joined them...