It seems like ages since I wrote a blogpost, but I think many bloggers have been the same, hopefully we’ve all been too busy having fun. I ended up over in that west which I pine for – that dear green city of Glasgow. We hadn’t been there for ages, what with the house being up for sale and all the subsequent moving malarkey. On that front, the house is slowly improving, there aren’t too many boxes to sort through now, we’re definitely on the last lap.

Anyway, as I was saying – Glasgow, Jack was there for the annual Eastercon Science Fiction convention, it isn’t in Glasgow very often, next year it’s back in London. SF isn’t really my interest, it’s obviously one of those ‘opposites attract’ things, but I enjoy going along to some get-togethers and meeting up with folks I haven’t seen for ages.

The convention was held in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, right on the banks of the River Clyde, the whole area used to be full of shipyards but they have all gone now, sadly. There has been a ‘regeneration’ which nowadays seems to mean – build loads of silvery structures, it’s all very swish and modern looking, but I’m not sure how well those buildings will age.

Glasgow’s new transport museum, called the Riverside Museum, is not far from the hotel so I took myself along there, it’s a nice riverside walk. The museum was named best European museum 2013 and it’s well worth a look. They have all sorts of transport on display, and even a tall ship anchored there which you can have a poke around. The museum also has displays of vintage clothes as well as vehicles and a mock up of an old street with shops which you can go and have a look around. I took loads of photos but I haven’t had time to go through them all yet.

Before heading back to the east we drove over to Glasgow’s west end and had a look around our old stamping ground which was eerily quiet when we first got there, of course the students are all on holiday which makes a big difference and everything got off to a slow start as it was Easter Monday. We decided not to go to the city centre this time as I don’t think the atmosphere would have been all that great, I like a city to be a city and heaving with people and street artists I love it all – for a wee while anyway. I think that the occasional stop over in a Glasgow hotel will be enough to stop me from getting too homesick in the future.

So we headed back home, via IKEA of all places. I know that I said we have too much stuff but when you move there are always things which you need to make the new place habitable, like curtain rails! This house was a bit like sensory deprivation because although it’s four years old it was really just as it had been the day it was built, nothing homely added to it at all. Now it’s so homely and I admit it – cluttered, that the house must wonder what has hit it!

I hope to get some photos ready for tomorrow.