Conehead

After breakfast at our hotel, we headed to he lecture venue to upload D's presentation and to make sure that there were enough poster boards for my exhibition (there weren't...but hey ho). The Royal College is another of those beautiful old Glasgow buildings and has some amazing art on its walls. It was worth our visit just to see these.

We then had a couple of hours free and we split up to do our own things. I wanted to find a little black velvet dress. Velvet is in this season, so it shouldn't be too difficult, surely....I tried the charity shops first, then worked my way up Sauciehall St to the Buchanan galleries. No black velvet dresses to be had anywhere.... and clothes shopping (any shopping) is not my idea of fun. I sat down for 5 minutes and ordered one from Amazon. Then I had fun visiting GOMA and wandering around looking at architecture.

The Duke of Wellington had his usual hat on. People regularly climb up and put a traffic cone on his head, despite the powers-that -be declaring it a criminal act.  Apparently in 2013 Glasgow City Council got fed up taking it off  - they said it had cost £10,000 over 20 years which begs two questions - why did it cost so much when it cost nothing to put the cone on - and why did they bother? They planned to raise the base of the statue by 6 feet and replace the Duke's sword, which had mysteriously gone missing, at a cost of £65,000. A petition was signed by 1000's of the city's residents and the council's decision was reversed. In fact in 2014, the Daily Record replaced the usual orange cone with a gold one to celebrate Scotland's success in the Commonwealth Games.