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 […]
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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 […]
Mexican Wave Part 3
Further musings. I am itching to write up the KnowHow materials for all interested parties on my return to Glasgow but some fragments are surfacing as I am sending my […]
Meanwhile, back at the ranch….
Great to hear from Sue and Adele in Oaxaca (particularly that they’re both safe and well, given the current political situation), and to hear their reflections on this year’s Know […]
White flags in Oaxaca
Hello, Sue here – I’m writing on Adele’s blog name due to reasons that I don’t fully understand but don’t really matter.* Anyway, sometimes you have to step right back […]
Mexican Wave Part 2
Day 3 in Oaxaca where the burnt-out cars and buses still partly blockade the streets after 90 days of demonstrations, shootings and city-wide trauma. Today there is strike by all […]
Mexican Wave (part 1)
To the staff, Board and ever vigilant blog visitors of this site (and my parents who may reasonably have imagined me hostaged or taken with the idea of joining the […]