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  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Verdun stay safe, soz to hear you've got it again.

    Chicky, lovely story and lovely new "friends".

    Fairy enjoy your day off, even if it is doing HW image

    BFN

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    It's worse than that KEF - I'm collecting my daughter from Uni to take her somewhere, which means I have to go into Glasgow....would rather pull my liver out with a rusty hook than drive in there...image

    You won't desert us now you have new friends, will you chick? image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Fairy, lovely turn of phrase image Good Luck

  • I've driven through Glasgow  twice, both times during rush-hour - on the way to Skye and on the way back - having picked a hire car up from Glasgow airport we stayed with friends who lived in a flat in one of those lovely red sandstone buildings close to lots of brilliant Indian restaurants and very close to an arboretum - can't remember the name of the road now and the friends have moved to Bearsden. 

    It was in the days before Sat nav, and as OH doesn't drive he was navigating - and he wasn't very practised at that either in those days - amazingly enough we got to the very next road before we had to stop and phone friends for directions - I'm still quite proud of that image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,038

    Morning all, I regularly drive through Glagow on the M8, on the way to the Northwest. Once through Glasgow and onto the Erskine bridge I feel the holiday has started.

    Cold and grey here, done the supermarket. Might sow some seeds later.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    I'm going the opposite way doc - would much rather be heading to Loch Lomond and beyond! image

    Was it Great Western Road/Byres Road or near there Dove? The Botanic Gardens are just off that. That's very much the 'posh' West End of Glasgow, but near Glasgow Uni etc. so full of students too! My daughter's at Strathclyde at the 'not quite so posh'  East/Royal Infirmary end... image 

    2nd wash nearly ready image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Matty2Matty2 Posts: 4,817

    Morning all

    Bucketing down with rain at present - winds haven't arrived but are expected - from Cornwall Verdun!! - We also have snow forecast for later

    Been swimming, and now feeling very achey, but I do enjoy it. I have the lessons for health - run by local health centre - every now and again they check BP etc and mine is now normal.

    Seed sowing today I think - thunbergia and marigolds. Never grown thunbergia before.

     

    Also have to have an x-ray on my wrist, but not too worried by that.

  • Fairygirl wrote (see)

    I'm going the opposite way doc - would much rather be heading to Loch Lomond and beyond! image

    Was it Great Western Road/Byres Road or near there Dove? The Botanic Gardens are just off that. That's very much the 'posh' West End of Glasgow, but near Glasgow Uni etc. so full of students too! My daughter's at Strathclyde at the 'not quite so posh'  East/Royal Infirmary end... image 

    2nd wash nearly ready image

    I've found my old address book Fg, it was just off Kelvinside Gardens, just over the bridge by the Botanic Gardens - they took us to an absolutely fabulous Indian restaurant, think it was on Byres Road or just off it.  


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    Yes - you'd have have been on Gt Western Rd - and lots of Indian restaurants around there Dove. There's also a very famous Glasgow eaterie called The Ubiquitous Chip in Ashton Lane off Byres Rd.I don't frequent the West End at all nowadays but if you're ever venturing back this way you might want to check it out. 

    Anyway - off to collect daughter now. No posh eating though- she might get a sandwich somewhere if she's lucky ...image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Good afternoon all,

    Thankfully our Cornish winds have died down for the moment and even got blue skies.

    I was just returning from a dog walk when a massive branch fell down in my son's garden next door. He has workmen in and it just missed one of their cars.

    Sadly a body was found in the sea on Tuesday on our local beach. The police can't identfy him although a jacket was found nearby with a photo of a boy in the pocket dated 1952. Tragic that no-one has reported him missing.

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