Various – June 2008 CDs
The Divine Comedy – Victory For the Comic Muse
Secret Machines – Now Here is Nowhere
A busy day today and lovely first thing...
We were up early and out to Patisserie Florentine for breakfast before walking up to George Street to have my eyes tested...
No worse really than they were two years ago and I can still get away with +1 Reading Glasses, though I made the mistake of almost buying a pair of prescription glasses...
Bearing in mind you can get a decent pair of “readers” for under a tenner, it was a bit foolish of me to start trying on £150 frames, not realising there’d be another £100 or so charge on top of that for the lenses!
So that was knocked on the head and we walked back down to Stockbridge, picked up the car and headed to the podiatrist’s...
My original lady has returned for occasional stints following the birth of her baby...
Then home and awaited my mum’s arrival – today we were taking her though to see old friends Lex and Moira in Bearsden...
She arrived a little early so we showed her our Paris photos before setting off – 70 minutes later we were there and, after some entertaining chat (as is always the case with Lex & Moira) and some of Moira’s lovely home made soup, Anne and I left the trio to it and drove to the station, catching the train into Glasgow Central...
As you can see, by this time, the weather had taken a turn for the worse - it was like November rather than early July...
I did my usual trawl around the record shops while Anne visited emporia of her own liking...
Ended up purchasing CDs by The Divine Comedy and The Secret Machines from Zavvi – hmm, didn’t think I liked that shop but there are some bargains to be had at present it would seem...
We reunited and headed to Bar Ten for a coffee...
...before catching the train back from Queen Street to Bearsden, where Moira served up her cheesy shepherd’s pie and fruity fruit salad...
We chatted round the table till around 10pm then it was time to get back – after taking a quick picture of our very affable hosts...
By the time we got home, Moira had sent me three e-mails with links to blogs of friends of her daughter Lindsay, who lives in France with her husband, Guy – fast work – Moira’s a whiz on the old PC and had some funny stories re her exploits selling Lindsay’s childhood dolls on ebay...
A good day...
Highlight of the Day : Visiting old family friends
3 comments:
Selling my dolls on ebay indeed....! never told me!
Your mum wnated to sell them so you wouldn't have to throw them away once she was "gone" ...ulp...
She's fessed up now and I am nostalgically looking at pictures of my Sindy on ebay. Hope she goes to a good home. She told me the same thing but she used the actual word...ulp indeed...
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