The commonwealth games are coming but visitors from around the globe needs to know a few things about us people of Glasgow. 1. The cone on Wellington's head is not graffiti, it's similar to the rooks in the Tower of London, if it's removed, Glasgow will...
(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language) In episode 199 of Janey Godley's podcast the comedy mother and daughter duo talk about Boko Haram, Food banks and Ashley finds out she might have eaten her twin. Janey chats about community...
"This venue feels really creepy" My daughter Ashley said to me when we stumbled over the wet cobble stones up to the main door of the Underbelly venue in Edinburgh. It was the fringe 2003 and the Underbelly was a giant four or five storey building (depending...
"That's my big brother just died" I said as I looked at the Facebook update his daughter posted. Would have been nice to have been told in a more intimate or sensitive way about the passing of my beloved bro, but hey-ho this is my family we are talking...
"Mammy, look there's Santa" the wee girl said as she stared at the big tinsel dressed window. One mitten fell off her hand and she struggled between the leather clad shoes and big boots to pick it up, a red mitten trampled into the slush and snow, her...
"I just don't feel right" My dad says to me. I know he doesn't feel right, he stupidly got old and unlike most of my family he has managed to stay alive until the age of 82, I say 'stupidly' got old as that's what being old is...a bloody stupid yet amazing...
(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language) In episode 148 of Janey Godley's podcast the comedy mother and daughter discuss The Oxford rape case, Cardinal O'Brien 'leaving Scotland' and the sexual nature of American Apparel adverts. They...
(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language) In episode 111 of Janey Godley’s podcast the mother and daughter comedy duo discuss Rape and the political/social comments surrounding the issue. Ashley reads more of her teenage diary and answers...
(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language) In episode 117 of Janey Godley's Podcast, Janey's away so Ashley can play. While Janey is on Tour in Canada Ashley and her best friend Victoria Barnet are left in charge of the podcast. Janey...
Last week in our car park a few things happened, firstly just to explain we have a communal car park with a gate that never gets locked and it’s in an area full of parking meters in Glasgow’s West End. Every flat owner has a numbered parking space, I...
(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language) In episode 128 of Janey Godley's podcast, in this end of year edition the mother and daughter comedy duo give us a rundown of 2012. The Olympics, the Jubilee, the big news stories and enduring...
(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language) In episode 115 of Janey Godley’s podcast the mother and daughter comedy duo discuss Janey and her husband’s anniversary today and the back story to a sectarian wedding. Ashley talks about her...
(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language) In episode 145 of Janey Godley's podcast the comedy mother and daughter discuss the problems with YouTube, fake tans and space stations. Ashley explains her day of editing the Tim and Freya...
You know that deep happy love feeling when you wake up and think your stomach will explode with excitement and you want to tell this person you love absolutely every thought, fear or desire but think it's best not to, because when the love fades and the...
Sunday will come and go and I will miss father's day as am off to London. So here is my tribute to my dad, don't worry he is still alive and kicking at 80 years old. My daddy used to carry me over seaweed at beach holidays as I was utterly petrified of...
I haven’t written a blog in ages. I am sorry, been upside down and round about. Last week Ashley and I were in London as the Groucho Club and my mate Monica got together and threw me a belated 50th Birthday party. Personally I hate birthday parties but...
That’s where I am right now as I write this blog- sitting in a sun drenched lounge on Salt Spring Island. If you know your American TV drama’s then this place looks like a cross between Everwood and The Gilmore Girls, it’s a small town by the bay. We...
“Janey, you awake?” my husband asked me at 5am. “No am fast asleep fuck off” I answered, truth was I was wide awake, I was wriggling about and doing pretzel shapes and trying to switch my brain off. One minute I was drifting off into a submerged world...
I love Glasgow and I adore it at this time of year when my dear green place becomes awash with russets, browns and burgundy, when all the trees decide to go on the ‘turn’. So on Saturday I headed into to town to look at clothes in fashionable shops that...
Employees use Registered Charities Twitter account to Bully. (I deleted this earlier but read again as there are further kinks to this story especially at the end) Last week I got into a robust twitter debate with a woman from www.mckeeconsultants.co.uk...
“Why are you old and have funny hair?” my great niece Julia asked me as she stroked the evil cat she calls a pet. She is only five and doesn’t understand that I am allowed to still be alive and she also doesn’t know that genetically she just might inherit...
Everyone nowadays has an opinion on the state of the nation’s diet. The government are worried that people are getting obese and that the generation from the 70s & 80s are feeding their kids too much processed food. Let me take you back to the 60s when...
“They are not my guns” were the last words I heard myself say as the prison door slammed shut behind me. That slow realisation that this room with no windows and that smell coming from the ‘stainless’ yet somehow ‘stained’ steel toilet pan in the corner...
Boston hosts an awesome women in comedy festival, now being a comedy festival veteran (14 one hour shows over ten years at Edinburgh Fringe) I was expecting a town under siege – much in the way Edinburgh gets every August but this one is very different....
Trains are my friend, unless fate decides to halt the trains, through landslides, fire and flood and then in that case, I get worried sick. I had to get a train to London last week; firstly I was heading to Tom Parker Bowles book launch for his stunning...
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