Winter afternoon by the canal

I was on an urgent mission to buy sewing thread and ended up at the Clyde Shopping Centre. I hadn't realised that is beside the Forth and Clyde Canal. It was such a grey day that the starlings were roosting at three o'clock in the afternoon and the pigeons were hanging around looking unimpressed. I was intrigued by the boat shaped edifice housing a restaurant and a fish and chip shop. Was it actually a boat? It is next to the canal but appears to be growing out of the land. 
Back home  an internet search found the answer. Yes it is indeed a boat, of sorts.  The Debra Rose was built in Cambeltown and towed up the Clyde, but had to be cut up into 8 pieces to allow her to reach her new home on the canal where she was welded back together. Originally she was afloat on the canal but when the canal was made navigable some years ago they added 100 tons of concrete so now she sits on the bottom. All quite surreal. I didn't have time to sample the chips.
The extra is the finished version of the artwork I blipped on 17th November, finally finished this morning as it was the last class of the course so it was 'Show & Tell" day
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