Today the family left the Palace of Bundance and it’s huge collection of Lego for Paisley and another collection of Lego. The Brick City exhibition is at the Paisley Museum and Gallery until February. Queuing at St Pancras Station It promises a “stunning” collection of some of the world’s most famous landmarks. And to a […]
152/365 Pedalling to Paisley – what I learned
Blimey, the lack of rain must have upset the balance of my mind or something, but today nothing else would do but to go for a bike ride… with Boy Two. I was inspired by one of the Panther’s colleagues who had ridden from Bridge of Weir to Gourock with the intention of getting the train […]
24/365 The Whole of the Moon
Today we learned that no matter how much you want it, you can’t make the sky go clear just by wishing. It was convenient for us to visit the Coats Observatory in Paisley, so we did. Only it was too cloudy for the telescopes to be working so we had to content ourselves with looking at […]
12/365 Paisley with a patterned sky
Somehow this afternoon, while I wasn’t going swimming with the rest of the family (lax topiary issues) I was to hang around in Paisley while they frolicked at the Lagoon. I spent a little while browsing the reading matter – and an abandonned Daily Record and some tourist leaflets for the whole of the west […]
The mysterious tribes of Scotland
Yesterday morning when I dressed the Third Boy, I made a decision. I rejected his cute new t-shirt – Disney’s Pluto on a green and white striped background – in favour of a nondescript multi-coloured affair. Why? Because we were off to the centre of Paisley on a Saturday morning. So what? You may well […]