Simply..city buzz Glasgow....

23/1/2020

Have you explored your own home ground as if you were a visitor?

(Click on photo to see full images in this rather random selection.)

11 Comments

julia

24/1/2020 05:03:05 am

I have not done this, Freda. But what a great idea! I’m going to make a point of looking at our town with a visitor’s eye..i’ll pretend i am taking you around..:-)

Freda

24/1/2020 05:09:49 am

Oh, I look forward to that!

Lotta

24/1/2020 09:03:45 am

Enjoying all those Mackintosh details and my eye keeps returning to that pink and white image at the top. But slightly disappointed not to see photos of you and Mary trying on the hats. :-)

Freda

24/1/2020 12:23:02 pm

The shop was just closing or we might have!

cathy

24/1/2020 09:22:06 am

i'm hoping for some Freda/Mary pictures, too. so often we get in a rut about where to go & what to do in our towns. showing visitors is a good way to help us try something different or even find something we didn't know about that's right there under our noses. what's routine/possibly boring to us might just be exciting to them.

Freda

24/1/2020 12:26:38 pm

We didn't take photos of each other except for one I took of (a reluctant ) Mary which didn't turn out well as it was dark! I think it's a great way to explore your own place and I certainly learned some new things.

cath

24/1/2020 10:01:29 am

Sometimes when walking I ask myself 'What would Roger Deakin (author of Notes from Walnut Tree Farm) have seen walking here?.' Which is kind of seeing through a visitor's eye.

One of your lovely photographs stirred an old longing... There was a time I wanted to make myself Mackintosh curtains by embroidering
a repeating motif on ecru linen. I did make a table runner though
so not all was lost.

Freda

24/1/2020 12:28:25 pm

Now that is a good idea Cath, and well done with your table runner.

Grace

24/1/2020 10:16:40 am

I realise that I am not answering the question here, but I discovered that a former colleague of mine, Rab MacInnes, did the stained glass work for Mackintosh at the Willow. Here's a link to a radio interview with him for those who might be interested :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csvlmb

Grace

24/1/2020 10:22:44 am

And here's a wee video featuring Rab :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3dTcwhsU0

Freda

24/1/2020 12:30:31 pm

Thank you for the links Grace. I intend to look and listen. It really is a special place and I have just learned there is a roof terrace and gallery.

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