Seagulls, sirens and Sauchiehall Street 11th Apr 2006
We’re in the midst of moving to Glasgow at the moment - moving house, moving the fraoch office and moving the McKinlay Kidd office. Yes, it’s a stressful time, but also exciting. We first got the keys to our Glasgow flat on 31 March, and although we move properly at the end of this week, we’ve already spent a couple of nights there in a very minimalist environment - futon to sleep on, bar stools to sit on and table football to keep us amused!
The flat - and base for the fraoch office for the foreseeable future - is in Cowcaddens, just to the North of Glasgow City Centre, three to four minutes’ walk from Sauchiehall Street - a world away from the peace and quiet of an Edinburgh suburb. In the vicinity we have a police station, ambulance station and Strathclyde firemen’s training college…and some of the training seems to be how to use the sirens! And even though we’re further from the river and sea than we are in Edinburgh, we still seem to have seagulls as neighbours. The joys of City Centre living!
It’s wonderful to be able to walk everywhere, and I’ve just secured a new client in Glasgow - all of five minutes’ walk away. Just need to remember to take the brolly - it’s true that the pavements in Glasgow rarely dry out…