Happy faces having been about us today in the form of visiting friends and neighbours. Also out in the garden are all the sunflowers that I started as seedlings in March.
Iain is now home from hospital and is sitting in state "receiving". So I am baking scones and (happily) running through our supply of coffee beans! Yes, we are new people on the block, so to speak; everyone has been most solicitous! Maybe it is because of the lovely weather that we are seeing each other on the street or over the fence. Wonderful! Everyone from Mum with new babe to Iain's Lady Fan Club (growing daily) is paying a call.
We even had Out-of-Town (Chilliwack) friend-of-a-friend visitors. After dinner I went into the city to meet and greet and ended up in the Merchant City having a cup of coffee and a sticky bun while the street - nay, the whole of the city centre - was absolutely jumping with folk heading for the discos, bars and restaurants. "Who are all these people?" I asked 2 roaming policemen. "Football supporters?"
No ... there is a big piping event taking place tomorrow (well, actually pipe bands have been here all week in the run-up to the World Championships tomorrow) and these are the players and the camp followers etc soaking up another popular form of Glasgow culture.
Full marks to the city(?) pipe-band(?) organisers! In these hard economic times I would say that they have hit on a very successful formula!
No ... there is a big piping event taking place tomorrow (well, actually pipe bands have been here all week in the run-up to the World Championships tomorrow) and these are the players and the camp followers etc soaking up another popular form of Glasgow culture.
Full marks to the city(?) pipe-band(?) organisers! In these hard economic times I would say that they have hit on a very successful formula!
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Photo of Piping Judge: taken at 2008 (I think) World Championships on Glasgow Green
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