sometimes they get it right

We have a new cinema, and a new sports complex. Because of the credit crunch, and some political shenanigans too tedious to mention, they look as if they have been dropped onto a bomb-site, and then you wade through the rubble to a really cool new bridge that lines up so you can see down to Cambuskenneth Abbey, where the first Scottish parliament was planned.

But leading into this urban dereliction is a winding path alongside the river, and because of the credit crunch etc., etc., it hasn't been landscaped. And this is the result.


and further along, this:


and this:



I hope they never landscape it!
The orchids were photographed by Paul Rimmer, and the others by me, on my phone.

I'll be at the Atlantic Islands Festival for the next week. There should be a lot to write about when I get back!