Winter Archives - The Glasgow Guardian



Glasgow to Glencoe, scrap your alpine holiday and ski in Scotland!

11th January 2024

From skiing day trips from Glasgow to long weekends in the Cairngorms, Scotland has plenty to offer for both beginners and experts on the snowy slopes. Skiing in Scotland can be truly world-class at its best. Unfortunately getting a day on the slopes with perfect conditions is rare, and instead skiing in Scotland can degenerate ...


Winter: the most wonderful time to read

10th December 2022

Georgia McHaffie recommends books to get you in the festive spirit. I firmly believe that Christmas is the best holiday for a book lover. Our natural habitat, snuggled under a cosy blanket next to a (in my case, imagined) fire, is much more socially acceptable when you can finally feel the frost outside. So, to ...


Winter is here… but is it all doom and gloom?

19th December 2021

 It might be getting colder but winter sporting opportunities are only heating up. Once again we are staring down the barrel of the oh-so-frosty gun that is a Glasgow winter. The coming months, to most, present dark nights at home with the sound of rain against the window and little hope for sunshine, never mind ...


Combatting winter blues

17th November 2021

Books Editor Rachel Campbell discusses how we can battle the blues that come with the dreary Glasgow winter. Last winter was just shit, wasn’t it? I was in a cold tenement flat with a stubbornly broken boiler, and on-and-off restrictions combined with online classes meant I rarely saw beyond those four walls. I couldn’t often ...


Winter graduations to take place this year as UofG confirms commitment to hold postponed graduations

13th October 2021

This winter will mark the first time on-campus graduations take place since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Following the postponement of in-person graduations since the Covid-19 outbreak, winter graduations are scheduled to take place on campus this year between Monday 29 November and Friday 10 December 2021. Additionally, the University of Glasgow has confirmed ...


Rethinking your wardrobe for winter

9th November 2020

Olivia Marrins explores ways to utilise and adapt what’s already in your wardrobe.           Let’s face it, who can’t resist the arrival of the winter collections on the high street? Fresh wool coats and cosy jumpers is all anyone needs to entice them into buying a whole new wardrobe for the upcoming season.  As we ...