Adele
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bhajis from the bothy
Our next door neighbours at 109 have been Klass Leather shop and Mitchells Amusement Arcade. Mitchells are located on the ground floor of the magnificent, crumbling, neoclassical Panopticon Theatre. Stan […]
Tides and Time
Hello again to the patient readers of the Liblog. The metaphorical tides of journals and shelves, files and books have been swept up and reconstituted into the lovingly labelled, serried […]
moving space
The Library is moving. I mean that in two senses as I write. Yards of books and files are morphing into piles of boxes, furniture is being displaced and recycled […]
Rubik boxes
A strange but fascinating form of origami cum architecture is taking place in front of the wood burning stove as 300 flat packed boxes are constructed, filled and labelled. The […]