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Day 2 in Glasgow saw us doing some hospital visiting in the morning and then to the Willow Tea Rooms for a spot of lunch. Rene and I ate in this Mackintosh designed building and then walked round to the exterior of his Art School. After I dropped Rene off at Central Station for her train back to Cumbria, I went back for a tour of the Art School - unfortunately no photography allowed - and spent a little time round the city centre and Sauchiehall Street. It was the hottest day in Glasgow this year and we felt it.

After a brief visit to the Lakes, Rene, Mairi and I drove up to Glasgow to see a rather poorly aunt. We  stopped at Gretna Green for coffee - always good for a bit of kitsch and then Pollock House in Glasgow. This is a wonderful oasis in the city which even has it's own herd of Highland cattle. We visited my aunt at the Old Victoria Hospital in Glasgow which is due to be closed next year. The Premier Inn in the city centre saw us bedded down for the night. We managed to get a room on the top floor which has a great view over the city, although Rene was upset the windows didn't open! All the pictures are taken with my Fuji XE1.

A couple of weeks ago I went up to visit an aunt in Glasgow and stopped at Alan's mother, Rene's house on the way up. Mairi and I went there by car and all three of us continued up to Glasgow. Before we left we had a little time in the Lakes and visited Fell Foot on the shores of Windermere and also Arnside on Morecambe bay. By the time we got to Arnside the sun was setting - not a spectacular sunset, but a soft gentle one.

On Friday we went 'en famille' to the Cambridge Folk Festival. We had not heard of any of the groups that were playing, but enjoyed ourselves enormously. Special commendations go to the Bombay Royale - a rocky Asian fusion mixture, great fun. A lovely summery evening. Here are the pictures. Old folksters in the beer tent Never too old to boogey All of human life Mairi with garland I got a bit fixated on this guy and his hat