Pollok park in Glasgow to be precise, where Paul and I went to join a five mile sponsored walk in aid of Parkinson’s UK last Sunday.   If you have missed my mumbled appeals for sponsorship you can still support us by clicking on this link.

We’d never been here before so we went across to the city on Saturday to look around.  It’s a beautiful park with police dogs, heavy horses, Highland cattle, the  White Cart water, ponds, arboretums ducks and half the dogs in town walking their humans.  The Burrell Collection is also situated here – they seem to be having  issues with water ingress just now so I hope that is remedied soon, as I would have liked to see the paintings.

After that, it was back to the hotel in Glasgow, via Buchanan Street.  For various reasons we had to check out of one room and into another.  Usually this sort of event is a recipe for disaster but all praise to the staff, they handled it effortlessly and we were given a room upgrade. Free slippers ! Free drinks and canapés! Free breakfast! Free 30p newspaper!  All of which was grand, so we tarted ourselves up and scooted across to the Hydro because of course, gentle readers, it was time for the gig  of the year so far, the Elbows were in town.  A jolly evening was had by all.  We fans are all agreed that they are just the business.  We rounded off the event with a swim the next morning and then a visit to the IMAX to see Galapagos in 3D.