Views From The Kitchen

After a closure of three years and a refurbishment bill of not far off £30 million, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has reopened its doors to huge crowds.

2002 was the last year that Kelvingrove opened in July and the average weekly figures were 28,000 visitors per week. It reopened on Tuesday 11th July, 2006 and in the first week over 141,000 visitors walked through the doors. I was there on the Saturday – though they wouldn’t tell me my number!

The weather was very warm and sunny – and the place was heaving!
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It snowed through the night last night. I mean, it really snowed last night.

We don’t often get much snow in Glasgow in the winter and when we do, it doesn’t normally last for long – in fact, it tends to be a bit of a novelty. Well, for the first day or two anyway.

What made this fall of snow stand out was not so much the amount of snow which fell, but the fact that it fell in mid-March!
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I went for a run today with Carol and we ended up at McCaig’s Folly, Oban. I got this shot from the viewing platform, a couple of hours or so after sundown.

The view is looking roughly north-west, past the tip of the small island of Kerrera which sits across the mouth of Oban Bay. Coming in from the right beyond that we see, the tip of the island of Lismore, before the hills of the mainland appear again faintly in the distance. The large brown church building in the centre of the image is St Columba’s Cathedral.
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