Dear readers — the mornings are definitely getting lighter and during a stroll of Glasgow Green yesterday, we even glimpsed the yellow of a daffodil peeking through its green bud. Cause for celebration indeed.
Today we've got a members-only read on a Glasgow institution: the 76 year-old psychic who has been dishing out direction to the city's residents for over 50 years. Rebecca Guthrie turns the tables at the Savoy Centre with a journey into Kizzy's past, rather than her future.
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Onto your Wednesday read.
Rebecca Guthrie is at the Savoy digging into its most famous resident's past — and the centre's future.

“I think you’ve got two decisions to make, like I told you before.” I’m sitting across a table from a woman called Kizzy, who occasionally reaches out to clasp one of my hands in hers. She has a soft Bolton accent and a warm demeanour. She is also one of Glasgow’s most in-demand clairvoyants.
Our session is taking place in her shop — a modest white-fronted unit in the Savoy Centre, the shopping mall populated by independent traders halfway up Sauchiehall Street. Standing on the main thoroughfare, you can see that the old red sandstone facade of the original Savoy Cinema is still intact; on the Renfrew Street side you’re met by a grey Brutalist edifice rising into a tower block, connected by a footbridge to the Royal Scottish Conservatoire. This tower block, and the shopping centre, accessible at street level, were built by architecture firm Gavin Paterson & Sons between 1972 and 1979. Around this period, Kizzy — who remains mononymous — moved in.
Her reputation precedes her. If you’ve heard of Kizzy, it’s likely to have been through word of mouth. “I don’t advertise,” she says. “I never do. It’s just my signs out there”. The only indication of Kizzy’s presence in the Savoy is the vinyl lettering on the trim white frontage of her unit. Yet her mythos has spread far and wide. Generations of Glaswegians have sought Kizzy out when they need guidance. Queues to see her have been said to snake out of the Savoy Centre and onto the street outside.

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