Our Viaduct

Here's the viaduct at the edge of our town. It's so high above the road. 

We were at a friends' house for lunch, so walked under it to get home. Just had to take a quick shot as we were walking with another friend, and I didn't want to stop too often just to get out the camera.

Obviously there's no trains going over it just now as the track's broken further down the line. They say it'll be 3 weeks before the line's open again, though I'll be very impressed if it can be fixed so quickly.

Also spotted this cool tree as we left my friends house. No idea what kind it is, but I loved the spreading branches.

Renfrewshire Wheel

We had nothing planned for the day, so me and Amy decided to drive up to my favourite shopping centre. It's about 45 minutes drive, and handily the route takes us past my parents' so I knew we could pop in for a visit on the way back.

When we got there we spotted a Ferris wheel outside, which of course Amy immediately wanted to go on. I went across to find out the cost, and was told that if I went into the centre first there were leaflets which would get me 2 tickets for the price of 1. I really appreciated that.

When we went on the wheel, we got a carriage to ourselves. Amy held my hand but loved it, even though it went so high. The view over Glasgow and Renfrew was lovely, as it was a gorgeous day.

I was amused though when I heard part of the voiceover, telling us that we were looking out over Great Yarmouth (300 miles away!).

Amy can't wait to go back on, didn't want to come off in fact!

Excitement in our small town

This is a shot of the news on the telly as obviously I couldn't get close enough to take a photo myself. This morning a freight train carrying fuel derailed just outside our village, and a couple of the carriages caught fire. Luckily no-one was hurt.

By the time I left the house today there was just some black smoke, but there will be some disruption to the road and railway line for some time as a bridge collapsed onto the road out towards Kilmarnock.

All you could see round the town was groups of people talking about it, nothing usually happens here lol.

January mantelpiece

I love the mantelpiece in our living room. I'll be taking photos of it several times through the year as the display on it tends to change. At the moment it's been taken over by Peter's Transformers and Star Wars bits and bobs as I've not got round to putting my ornaments back up since Christmas.

From L-R is Darth Vader Transformer in Death Star mode; Patrol Bumblebee; Thundercracker; a desk calendar; Cheetor; Yoda; a clock and Cybertron Primus.

Now you see why he doesn't mind me nattering on about my scrapping, he's had a space-filling hobby longer than me:D.

Magical Trevor

While I was doing my PhD we came up with many ways to waste some time between the serious work. One of our favourites was a website which contained animated songs including 'Badgers, badgers, badgers' and 'Magical Trevor'.

I'd forgotten about the site until recently when my sister got broadband at her house so could play on the web. I showed it to her and her flatmate. 

I was so surprised to get this toy for Christmas from my sister as I didn't realise there was one for it. He just looks so jolly on my DVD shelves.

Old Atheneum

We went into Glasgow shopping today. This building sits on Buchanan street, and was used as a theatre until fairly recently. I took a full photo of it, but like this one with the blue sky behind it. 

Glasgow's full of interesting architecture, pretty certain I could fill a 365 project just with photos of buildings in the city.

Thirst and Tawny

Was at my crop last night, so didn't have time for a blog post when I got home. My photo for yesterday is of Tawny, our tortoiseshell. She rarely stays still long enough to let us take a photo, but here she was sitting on the arm of the sofa and I was able to click before she moved. 

She's a lovely cat, if a bit demanding when she wants some attention, often pawing at your arm till you pat her.

Today we went to a local coffee shop, Thirst, for lunch with my friend and her little girl. It's a great place, with a couple of shelves of books, crayons and toys. There's an area at the back with gardening gloves/ seeds etc. Here Amy and her friend were putting all the packets of seeds (unopened) into a hanging basket, something that they do every time we visit.

Also got a cute photo of my dad and one of their cats, Kola. He's been staying with my parents, but is about to return to his owner. I think they'll miss him, though I'm not sure my parents' other cats will!