This week, an Evening Times exclusive. Then, I ditch the Oscars for The Sound of Music and stop by The Scullery for some lunchtime scran.

Big News, Baby!

I'm delighted to tell you - and this is an Evening Times exclusive (just wait until my husband reads it!) - I'm expecting my first baby. I'm delighted, terrified and it could explain my addiction to burgers over the last wee while.

I will, of course, continue to have my eyes firmly on Glasgow (just over my bump!), and the only difference will be when I head out to glamorous parties, I'll swap my heels for flats and my champagne for lemonade.

Over the next little while, I hope to share some of the pregnancy-friendly options in the city (as well as, of course, the wild parties!) and then, after August, I'll begin to take a look at more of the fabulous family-focused events going on. Each week, you lovely lot come on an adventure around Glasgow with me, and I can't wait to kick off (that's me and the baby!) this adventure with you folks too!

The Sound of Music @ The Kings

So, this week was Oscar week and, perhaps, one of the surprise winners of the night was Lady Gaga. She didn't get her manicured mitts on one of the gold fellas, but her performance of a medley of hits from The Sound of Music was, I think, award-winning. The show-stopper was to celebrate both the film's 50th birthday and the fact that, incredibly, it's the most successful movie musical ever made (take that Frozen!)

Sadly, I didn't make it to the Oscars this year (washing my hair), but in tribute to Lady Gaga's performance I took my mum to see the stage version, currently on at The Kings Theatre in Glasgow. Amazingly, the theatre version of the nun-turned-governess classic is even older than the film, originally opening on Broadway in 1959, five years before it hit the silver screen.

This latest imagining, stars Danielle Hope, who sung her slippers off and won BBC's Over the Rainbow four years ago. Just in case you don't know your Do Ray Mi from your So La Ti, The Sound of Music tells the true story of the famous singing family, The Von Trapps; from Maria Von Trapp's start at a nunnery to moving in with the wealthy family as their governess, to falling in love with the Captain and their thrilling escape from Austria at the beginning of World War Two. The cast is fantastic. Danielle is pitch perfect as Maria and each of the seven Von Trapp children, who range in age from little to 16 going on 17, all sing and dance without a sniff of stage schooliness! The ingenious set design is also quite something, literally moving mountains (the hills are alive!) to add depth and colour to the historic production.

It's one for the ladies, of all ages - I probably couldn't have paid my bloke to be there! - and one cute wee lassie, sitting behind my mum and me, gave us a delightful running commentary ('that was a good one' after My Favourite Things) and, when the show came to an end, she sobbed 'but I'm not ready for it to finish yet' and, I have to say, I absolutely agreed with her! The Sound of Music is one of my favourite things…!

*The Sound of Music will run at The Kings until tomorrow (February 28) with performances at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.

Lunch @ The Scullery

I've been wanting to pop in to The Scullery since it opened in November last year, however, as it's a wee bit further along 'The Finnieston Strip' I kept forgetting about it and, unfortunately, it's taken me longer than planned.

My friend and I dropped in for a mid-week bite - as ladies wot lunch - and we had the place to ourselves. I was surprised by how quiet it was, I'd heard great things about the place and rumours that it wasn't always so easy to get a table. However, it was a truly miserable and wet Wednesday afternoon, when many may have settled for a Pot Noodle at their desks.

The Scullery menu covers brunch, lunch and dinner and everything in between. I could have eaten almost everything on it, but showing (some) restraint, I simply ordered the Vegetable Gumbo soup, a Cheese and Chilli Jam sandwich and chips. It was all very tasty, especially the soup, which was flavoursome, wholesome and then some…

The layout of the cafe/restaurant is urban cool: a kind of modern, minimalist, exposed brick sandwich. It's tasteful, but, if I had one wee complaint it's that the decor doesn't match the homely name and the delicious hearty food. It was a little on the chilly side and I just felt that the whole place could do with a few more throw cushions. Girls, you know what I mean?

The service was impeccable, though, as was the food and those are two things that are much harder to change than adding a few pillows here and there. I hope you go and check it out - for brunch, lunch, dinner or something in between - because it seems a shame that somewhere so lovely would be so quiet. Like a soufflé, good food needs attention or it might just see it flop…

Wee Bird Recommends

If the Oscars have given you a taste for some movie magic (and/or popcorn!), why not check out Glasgow Film Festival this weekend. Wee Bird favourites are The Goonies (Saturday, February 28) and Dazed and Confused PLUS A ROLLER DISCO! (Saturday, February 28) at the Drygate, Small Faces at GFT (Sunday, March 1) and, of course, GoMA's Cat Festival, which celebrates the funniest of feline shorts.