My dad took this photo of me. I’m in George Square and it has trees towering over me. I am around four years old and I’m surrounded by my two great loves, newspapers and the city of Glasgow.

I am that proud Glaswegian. I love how we speak and confuse people with words which really can be taken out of context elsewhere.

(Image: Stacey Mullen, Glasgow Times editor at four years old) We have the funniest people in the world. Our city is full of comedians who don’t even realise the power of their humour. Recently, the cleansing union chief Chris Mitchell employed a secret weapon to make the council stand up and take notice. He had a mascot dressed up as a seagull to protest outside Polmadie Recycling Centre. He wanted to tell the council that it was unacceptable for the cleansing staff to have to deal with the gathering of hundreds of unruly seagulls at their depot. He called the protest mascot Steven Sea-gull. Now that’s funny.

(Image: Steven Sea-gull’ to tackle Polmadie gull invasion (Image: Robert Perry))

I love the rain. Deacon Blue calling their 1987 debut album Raintown is genius because it captures the permanent mood of the city. It rains a lot and I’m always prepared for it.

I also get a sense of pride when I hear a Glaswegian voice especially on TV. The Drumchapel-born actor James McAvoy on Graham Norton talking how we do, not apologising for it and sounding absolutely gorgeous in the process. There is no other accent like ours.

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