Wednesday 13 December 2017

BOCLAIR HOUSE BEARSDEN

A local landmark has had a make-over.  What was built originally as a Victorian mansion, then used as the local council offices, is now a smart hotel.  It is very much done up in the style for weddings, i.e. glitzy.

Having not been in the place since it was done up I was amazed at just what can be done with a dreary interior!  We joined others for a post-funeral tea  this week. Yes, the tea was just lovely with fresh, fat sandwiches, cakes and meringues beautifully all laid out on a slate plate.  And there was even a plate of the ever-necessary sausage rolls seen at every Scottish funeral tea.

When Iain and I came back from Chicago in 1969 we lived in the top of a house just at the back of those houses in the middle distance.  It was from there that we built our house on CVD.

The hotel has even done up the Victorian bandstand on the front lawn.


The frosty balustrade of the front steps sparkles in the midday sunshine.

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Ilona was looking for these German biscuits which I found lurking in one of the isles of Waitrose today.  And they are lovely: tasty, chewy... I think made from hazelnuts and sugar.

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