You Can Take the Boy Out of Glasgow...

There’s a street in Glasgow called Otterburn Drive. It’s a road lined with big old sandstone houses built at the start of the last century in the posh bit of Giffnock, a suburb in the south side of the city. The house at number 3 Otterburn Drive has a special place in my family mythology — it was the home where my siblings and I grew up. Before that, our grandparents owned it, so our mother Maxine and her sister Charlotte also spent their childhood there. As the story goes, our father Nigel, 17 years old and keen to investigate how the other half lived, gatecrashed a party there, met our mum, and set in motion the events that led to all of us. <a href="https://gregallon.medium.com/you-can-take-the-boy-out-of-glasgow-470f9e8eee14">Read More</a>