Willow Tea Rooms @ Kelvingrove

Willow Tea Rooms @ Kelvingrove
Originally uploaded by MhairiT

I visited the refurbished Kelvingrove Museum when I was up in Glasgow last weekend - there's really good 'Glasgow School' section there with some fine examples of furniture and art - some photos available in my photo album.

penguin egg - stage 4

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Originally uploaded by MhairiT

The penguin has fully broken out of its shell and is now growing more. I'll be away in Glasgow til Sunday so I hope it hasn't broken the glass jar when I get back!

penguin egg - stage 3

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Originally uploaded by MhairiT

slowly but surely the penguin starts to emerge from the shell

Penguin egg - stage 2

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Originally uploaded by MhairiT

22 hours later and the penuin starts to hatch.

celebratory!

Mhairi and the birthday pineapple
Originally uploaded by MhairiT

Karen, Chris and Liz brought me a birthday pineapple today, instead of a cake - here is me with it at the pub.

Penguin egg - stage 1

Penguin egg - stage 1
Originally uploaded by MhairiT

Mum sent me a penguin egg for my birthday - you put it in water and eventually a penguin hatches. This is the egg after 1 hour. Will keep this updated!

Lidolicious!

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Originally uploaded by pollyt

Went for a swim at the Hackney Lido tody - it was gorgeous! It's just been reopened after quite a bit of renovation and is so well done. It's London's only 50m heated open air pool. Today was a gorgeous day and it was heavenly to swim there - nearly as good as the North Sydney Pool! Very quiet as it was a weekday, not sure how busy it will be at the weekends. I'm so used to 25m pools though, it was a bit more of a challenge swimming in a 50m. I'll definitely be going again.

intimate!

Andrew had an operation to remove a piece of cartilage from his knee a week ago - not only did a camera go in to watch the operation, they gave it to him on CD and - of course! - he's posted it on YouTube!! He's healing well now and will be limboing again in no time.