Squirrel, Botanic Garden

Outside the Kibble Palace, this little fella was munching away in the middle of the path seemingly oblivious to all the people wandering around. Much like the squirrel that eats the bulbs from my flowerpots in my garden - I can be hammering on the window yelling at it and it doesn’t bat an eyelid, just carries on eating!

Kibble Palace again

Here’s one last picture from inside the Kibble Palace, before heading outside again tomorrow.

Plaque

There were a few of these etched plaques in the Kibble Palace, giving details of the restoration work that took place in 2006. Unfortunately, as I got there 5 minutes before closing time, I didn’t have the chance to make a note of the writing. It is rather lovely though, don’t you think?

Kibble Palace dome

I really like this picture from the inside of the Kibble Palace in the Botanic Garden as you can get a sense of the shape of the dome, the wacky green UFO-like lights and the gorgeous blue of the sky outside (sadly the blue sky seems to have gone again, hopefully it will return again soon).

More sun-worship!

Turning round 45 degrees or so from where I took yesterday’s picture, here are people soaking up the sun outside the Kibble Palace. You can see the sky colour better in this one

Enjoying the sun

The weather has been gorgeous this week, so rather than staying late in the office (as per my good intentions) I left at 5.30 and wandered up to the Botanic Garden. I’ll show a few photos over the next few days. This is people enjoying the sun - (you can’t really see from this picture how blue the sky was - it’s been really glorious). I suspect most of them are students having a break from revision.

A-Z

If you’re lost in central Glasgow and don’t have an A-Z map, then maybe this handy map of the city centre (located in Buchanan Street) can help!

Hope Street and chimney

In the background of my black and white Botanic Gardens photo from a week or so ago, you will have seen a chimney spewing out white smoke. Here it is again, from another angle - this is coming up Hope Street in the City Centre, where it looks like the chimney is at the end of the street. It seems that, come rain or shine, the distillery is always working, always producing this smoke - I’m not sure I’d want to live too near it, though I suppose smoke smelling of whisky is better than some other smells! You can see the chimney (and smoke) from loads of places around the city, it’s a very distinctive landmark.

Govanhill Glade fence

Round the corner from the Darth Vader gate is Govanhill Glade. The garden is looking very sad these days, most of the beds have been dug up in preparation for the redevelopment that will probably happen later this year. I bumped into one of the gardeners last week who told me that they will probably be forced to move out in August. But they are still letting me put my veg peelings on the compost heap till then, as they are still using the compost they’re making elsewhere. So if you read this and you’re local to the Govanhill area, don’t chuck away your garden and veg waste - add it to the compost heap! :)  And whilst you’re at it, enjoy this wonderful painted fence while it’s still there!

Happy Bank Holiday Monday everyone.

Happy Star Wars Day!

I couldn’t post any other picture on Star Wars Day but this one. This gate is round the corner from the Govanhill Glade garden that I’ve featured here before, and it always reminds me of Darth Vader! I took this photo some time ago - now it has quite a bit more grafitti on it than the small amount you can see here. Anyway, happy Star Wars Day - May the Fourth be with you (groan!).

I’m away for the Bank Holiday weekend - see you next week!