Troon (or Tron if you use the Google keyboard), Royal Troon, golf, The Open, the beach and the South Beach sand dunes is an altogether different experience as you approach the depths of winter. The rain continues to pour down in Glasgow and we decided on a quick drive to Troon on the west coast, … Continue reading troon
(beyond 4) If I leave here tomorrowWould you still remember me?For I must be traveling on now‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see Lynyrd Skynyrd, Free Bird tenerife - day 16 The alarm goes off but I lie till after seven. It's the airport run today - our airport run. Oh, I could … Continue reading leaving on a jet plane
This isn't really about The Merchant City, although we did spend a pleasant afternoon there. It's more about trying to settle in to some sort of retirement regime - if that's the right word. It's just over two months since I retired and a month for my wife. I have noticed that days can drift … Continue reading glasgow’s merchant city
Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation Over many decades, Sir William Burrell built up a huge, diverse collection of objects from across the spectrum. He gifted this to Glasgow in 1944. There is a huge … Continue reading the burrell collection
There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing Billy Connolly No, we're not talking about the E L James novels, we're talking about the the fifty shades of grey you get when it rains in Glasgow. It's Monday again and I had hoped to finish painting the balcony balustrade today. Glasgow weather … Continue reading fifty shades of grey
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