Older Posts: 2006
caprese appraisal
Dear blog readers, Why should I keep Laine’s luminous morsels to myself, it is, after all the season of goodwill? Scene 1: Sue and Wendy briefing Laine on her shopping […]
Drawing breath
Hello dear blog readers (I am sure there is a specific word for this…surely not bleaders. Every blog entry seems to flag up a further training need in me). Thanks […]
fresh vistas
I am writing late in the day at our new home. Since my last blog a whole load of sweat and strategy, tea and solidarity has wrought a whole new […]
“Ain’t no stopping us now – we’re on the move”
Trying to get this McFadden & Whitehead disco classic adopted as the GWL theme tune but no luck so far! Anyway “final move†day has dawned (a day late right […]
Things That Adele Forgot…
A gen-u-ine cow bell from Switzerland. A urine sample bottle (thankfully empty!). Several tupperware lids and boxes, none of which belong together. Someone’s toothbrush and pair of pants in a […]
Goodbye to a few of my favourite things
Odd objects found at Glasgow Women’s Library during the final days of packing: A large, yellow unused inflatable chair Fourteen pairs of unused brown shoelaces A fourpack of decorative toothpicks […]
Echo and the Removal Men
Nearly there. Nearly there. Nearly there. Our daily chant for the last month. We are now really really nearly there. Bit of a panic yesterday though on calling the removal […]
412 from 109
Hello, Even my blogs have an echo now at 109. 412 boxes have been dispached and there is one final uplift scheduled for Friday. Next Monday the Library will start […]
The History Girls
The Library’s growth is both strategic and yet still reassuringly organic. Intuition, tapping into (and on spectacular occasions appearing to anticipate and influence) the zeitgeist, working with the knowledge that […]
Walls have ears…
‘…that’s why we don’t eat their pies’ was the rather lame ‘joke’ on the shop floor when one of my big brothers worked at Walls sausage and pie factory many […]