Planfulness

It was the absence of planfulness that made today special. It was the first day that Glasgow Life opened most of its museums without the need to book in advance. A bit like Wilt in that novel  by Tom Sharpe I set out for the station with no plan place whatsoever. The 8 minute walk provided a heron and a dipper that on another day would have made a convenient blip.
I ended up, not unexpectedly, at central station and sauntered along the Clyde to the Riverside Museum and found a familiar blue and red tricycle (extra), I think mine was all blue – dark blue replacing the red on this one. The place was busy mainly with families and their pre-school children, a happy noisy enthusiastic vibe.
I crossed the river just before the Science Centre and went to blip the Floating Head in the Canting Basin. It had originally been created for the Garden Festival in 1988 (?) with the help of unemployed shipyard workers. Subsequently it was abandoned I think at the Rothesay Dock and “rediscovered” when the artist died a couple of years ago. It’s quite a thing to behold.
Crossed the river again beside the BBC and after a coffee stop briefly visited GOMA. I can’t be sure, but I think since I was last there in 2019 the racist graffiti on Beryl Cook’s By the Clyde has been blurred. You can still see it, but you have to know it’s there.
I do have a plan for this evening which includes watching episode 2 of Vigil, grippingly oppressive.