I\u2019ve been meaning to catch up with you, but by gawd, I\u2019ve been busy! Jeez-o. I feel like I\u2019ve hardly stopped since uni officially ended on 18 May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went to Pollok Park and the Burrell Collection with my partner the following day (Friday, 19 May). Knackered myself by walking nearly 20,000 steps and just over 13.5km that day. I spent the weekend recovering from that. Then on Monday 22 May, I did a massive spring clean of my bedroom, which took me most of the day – stripping my bed, vacuuming the floor and walls, making the bed back up with fresh bed linen, etc, etc. Knackered myself again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday (Tuesday week) in the evening I went to the Mitchell Library to attend a creative writing workshop that was being run in partnership with the University of Strathclyde and conducted by one of their CW lecturers. It was titled \u2018What You Need to Know about Point of View\u2019. I thought it would be beneficial to me in the hope it would provide me with clear definitions of how point-of-view within a narrative works. It was really good and I am SO glad I went. Even more so for the fact that I didn\u2019t pre-book as I was unsure whether to go or not or whether I should go to one of the other CW workshops that was happening later in the week. I read in the Aye Write brochure that you could buy a ticket from the Mitchell Library on the day, so I decided to just turn up and buy a ticket then. What will be, will be kind of thing. Long story short, they couldn\u2019t work out how to issue me with a ticket without a lot of faffing about, so they decided that because they hadn\u2019t made the process very straight forward at all, to let me attend the workshop for free. Yes! Part of my \u2018should I, shouldn\u2019t I?\u2019 dithering was about whether I could afford to go or not, so I was quite pleased to end up being allowed to attend for free. And it was really very good and cleared up some things about point-of-view that just weren\u2019t sticking in my brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday, a voluntary work colleague of my partner\u2019s gave us tickets to see him perform as an extra in the Theatre Royal production of An Inspector Calls. It was a great show and we really enjoyed ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thursday I did some writing and caught up with laundry. Friday it was the Sparks gig at the Armadillo. Sunday I caught up with a friend that was on holiday in Scotland from the U.S. We met up at the Barras market and wandered around there for a while. Visited the Blitzkrieg Shop, Glickman\u2019s and then had lunch at Mono before perusing Missing Records. It was a full day and I had walked another 10km. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday, I went to see The Lemon Twigs at SWG3. Then yesterday I went and got my haircut. So, today feels like PROPERLY the first day I\u2019ve had to just take a chill pill and rest up a bit – and do a post here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even just going over what I\u2019ve been doing for the past (almost) two weeks is exhausting me! Lol. Lots of sight-seeing, writing, theatre, gigs – LOADS of walking and some dancing too. It has felt absolutely non-stop. I\u2019m giving myself a quiet one today though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The weather has been AMAZING! So warm and dry. Yesterday it was 25 degrees in Glasgow! It\u2019s not quite as warm and sunny today but it\u2019s still into the 20s and ahm still roastin\u2019! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll probably get out and go for a wander tomorrow, just so the old bones and legs don\u2019t clam up on me completely. I don\u2019t have anything pre-planned until Hamish Hawk on 9 June (then Ian Moss the next night) but I want to keep active and make sure I do some things and make good use of the fabulous weather. But today I definitely need to allow myself to just chill and relax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This has been the main reason for the radio silence since the break-up of uni is just\u2026I\u2019ve been as busy since the end of uni as I am during it! I mean, it\u2019s great. I\u2019m glad I have so much to do. I\u2019m looking into being able to do some other things while on summer break. I\u2019ve been looking into taking a trip on the Waverley \u2018doon the watter\u2019 sometime in the summer. One trip takes you all the way out for a circuit around Ailsa Craig which would be AMAZING! I\u2019d love to do that! I\u2019ve spoken to my partner about it, but the decision is hers. We\u2019ll see. It won\u2019t be until August but we\u2019ll need to book early to secure a place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ll have another night away in Newcastle in around five weeks time so that\u2019ll be fun. Other than the odd gig here and there, my calendar is now pretty free. I\u2019ll still keep creating and writing during the summer, that\u2019s for sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anything of worth that I write, I\u2019ll share here. I just wanted to check-in for now and show off my new locks. I tried a new salon yesterday. They\u2019re just five minutes away around the corner but I had been scared to try them until now. The lady who cut my hair did a grand job and I\u2019ve already booked to have a trim in the second week of July. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One thing I\u2019d like to do within the next week is go to the Kelvingrove and see the Mary Quant exhibition. Possibly over the weekend. If not then early next week. We\u2019ll see\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
P.S. You can read gig reviews at the Priptona Weird blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been meaning to catch up with you, but by gawd, I\u2019ve been busy! Jeez-o. I feel like I\u2019ve hardly stopped since uni officially ended on 18 May. I went to Pollok Park and the Burrell Collection with my partner the following day (Friday, 19 May). Knackered myself by walking nearly 20,000 steps and just … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/larelle.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/05\/wp-1685532736012.jpg?w=768\")