Tags: Museum, friends, DIY, Glasgow
Date: 18 March 2006 19:17:50
I had been a bit lax and not had anything planned for this month, but as this weekend Glasgow sees an unexpected visit of wiblogger Katie and Spouse on a corporate jolly to see tomorrow's football final, we met up this afternoon and visited the very interesting Tenement House (here are some pictures of the inside). It was interesting to read up about the history of tenement housing, which is very common throughout Glasgow (the Stately Pile is a tenement flat) and also in Edinburgh as well (Katie lived in an Edinburgh tenement many moons ago). It was full of period features, and was a fascinating glimpse into turn of the (20th) century Glasgow. We visited it late afternoon so really got a good feel of how dingy it could be even with the gas lighting. And I finally got round to joining the National Trust of Scotland so that should make future culture-vulturing a bit cheaper.
Afterwards we headed to the Willow Tea Rooms, but as they were about to close we ended up putting the world to rights over iced buns in M&S instead. Not the same ambience, admittedly, but it was really good to see them.
Earlier today I made a start on tiling the bathroom. I have to say it's not the most professional looking bit of DIY I've ever done, but I think it will look OK as long as I don't have my contact lenses in :). Anyway it will be an improvement on bare plasterboard, which is what it has been pretty much since I moved in. It's a good job I went for the economy white tiles though - I really don't have the hang of tile cutting at all (understatement). Maybe I won't give up the day job just yet.