If you head along the ‘road’ back towards the community centre you’ll also find a wooden boat and a mud kitchen right next to the community centre. There’s also a wooden train station with two wooden trains, and a wooden play area with climbing bits and assault course style stuff. There are no toilets or other facilities so I’d take a picnic or some snacks with you if you are going to be spending a bit of time there. Itchy Coo is delighted to share that The Glasgow Gruffalo’s Wean has won the Scots Bairns Book o the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2021. Everybody loves The Gruffalo and now you can enjoy this children’s classic for the very first time in Glaswegian!

There are some ducks and swans and little moorhens in the loch too, which as we all know are just the most exciting beings on the planet. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo’s Child has become a bestselling phenomenon across the world.Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise.

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The publisher also released a Scots version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last month, in which translator Matthew Fitt transformed the Oompa Loompas into the Heedrum-Hodrums, Violet Beauregarde into Violet Boakregarde and the Great Glass Elevator into Wullie Wonka’s Muckle Gless Lift. The wee gallus moose squares uptae an auld owl, a sleekit snake an a ginormous gruffalo in a new version of Julia Donaldson’s classic picture book The Gruffalo, now translated into Glaswegian. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. More recently Smith has continued her stage work, touring the UK with The Calender Girls and is involved in numerous charities.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo's Child has become a bestselling phenomenon across the world. There is parking available near the end of Thompson Drive at the loch, or at the Arts Centre on Kilmardinny Avenue.When Kerry told the youngster that her favourite author had seen the video, she couldn't believe it. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. And the mummies didn’t really have to do any entertaining at all because there were so many things to investigate and explore around the loch. Actor and comedian Elaine C Smith, known for her role as Rab C Nesbitt’s wife Mary Doll Nesbit, has written a Glaswegian version of Donaldson’s well-known opening to her children’s story, “A mouse took a stroll through a deep dark wood.