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One of my neighbour Marie’s earliest memoires of the Moss is from the 1970s. When she met her husband, John, he lived on Blackthorne Avenue to the northwest of the site. As they both worked in Glasgow, they would get the train together from Lenzie Station. Marie remembers running late one morning and the two […]
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by Mingxi Li, Psychotherapy and Counselling January brought a wave of “New Year, New Me” energy, and I decided to try something new. I needed something embodied – something to pull me out of my head and break the cycle of endless rumination at my desk. I’ve always wanted to try bouldering. I booked my […]
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