A Building in Buchanan Street

In town for a meeting this afternoon. This building in Buchanan Street caught my eye. Glasgow has such nice buildings if you just look up! For those of you interested in more detail about Edwin Morgan's funeral then I thought you might be interested in the report below.

Morgan's funeral marked in music and verse The Herald (27 August)
It began with an empty hall at his beloved Glasgow University, with a single thistle adorning a simple coffin, and ended with hundreds of mourners singing Burns and then retiring for a dram of his favourite whisky and a Tunnocks caramel wafer. Like Edwin Morgan?s work and life, the national poet's funeral held yesterday in the Bute Hall at the university where he studied and worked contained humour and solemnity, wisdom and wit, and a myriad of voices and sounds, from jazz and Burns to The Beatles and experimental Russian poetry.

Morgan was born in Glasgow's West End on April 27, 1920. He was awarded an OBE in 1982, was appointed Glasgow's inaugural poet laureate in 1999 and was made the Makar (Scotland's national poet) in 2004. Mourners included First Minster Alex Salmond, Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop, former first minister Jack McConnell and Glasgow's Lord Provost, Bob Winter.