Day out

In September 2023, Mr A contributed to the crowdfund to enable the Glasgow Women's Library to buy Maud Joachim's suffragette hunger strike medal, when it went on sale at auction. The crowdfund was successful, and they have it, and some other medals on loan (the McPhun sisters), on display for a few months. It seemed a good idea to build a day out around going to see it.

We met P and S at the Library, and then went to WEST brewery for refreshments, before dinner at that Glasgow institution, the Amalfi. Finally, to the Glasgow Concert Halls to listen to the RSNO playing, with other pieces, The Planets. It was inspiring! P and S had tickets immediately behind us, having bought them at a different time, and who should be next to them but LauraMuir, K and R. Not surprising that they should be there, as I knew that they go to quite a few concerts including the RSNO, but more surprising that in that big concert hall they would be right next to our friends.

Back on an initially noisy train, which was almost empty by the time we got to Waverley. Plenty of people going back in the opposite direction at that time, though. Two things struck me. The energy of Glasgow compared to Edinburgh (I always feel that whenever we go to Glasgow for a day out). And the number of mainly younger people out and about on a Saturday evening. It feels like the pandemic might eventually be over.

It was a grand day out in lovely weather, where the public transport worked perfectly.