A walk along the Forth and Clyde Canal, especially in winter after the revelry of New Year, is never dull. Adam, Sandy and Lesley and I made a day - well at least a morning - of it taking in the section from Kelvin Lochs on Maryhill to Spiers Wharf and back again. We rounded off our outing with a curry lunch at the Polo Club, Killermont.
The canal had a fair sprinkling of litter, namely the bottles of the Maryhill neds (not educated delinquents) not so much on the path but on the ice which was still quite solid. Post New Year debris....Undeterred, the ghost of Reverend Walker* could be seen (with some help from Photoshop) as we made our way over the aqueducts (Gairbraid and Oakbank).
And on he skated past someone's party furniture ... or maybe this is the locals getting rid of their one year old suite to upgrade to something more fashionable - apparently a common practice.
Past Firhill Football ground, the home of Partick Thistle and on to Spiers Wharf taking in the panorama view of the city along the way. I think the guid reverend had had enough of Glasgow's kanal kulture and was just going to head on back to where Raeburn found him, namely, Duddingston Loch, near Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh._______________________________________________________
The Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch, 1784, by Henry Raeburn
Image: National Galleries of Scotland
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I looked at your beautiful snow pictures – you certainly had a lot of it for the holidays. We were in Nashville, Tennessee for Christmas and it snowed early that morning. It was the first time it snowed on Christmas day there since 1969, but at home in Atlanta, it snowed too and there it was the first time it snowed on Christmas days since….1882! I made a post on it (http://avagabonde.blogspot.com/2010/12/atlantas-historic-snow.html ). The snow did not last though and within 2 days it was gone. I enjoy reading your posts and hope you will have much inspiration for 2011 as well as a great year with many laughs and much happiness.
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