Finlaystone and the Euro Champs

What I picked up in Glasgow

1) The Romans got there first.  The built a fort at Bothwellhaugh, later to become Motherwell.  Now by the banks of Strathclyde Loch, where Ruth and Sarah swam in their triathlon.
2) The fine Georgian house of Finlaystone, current resident being Sarah Kerr's Durham team mate, was extended by Victorian ancestors to become lopsided Scottish Baronial, like Balmoral, loosing its Palladian charm somewhat.

Finlaystone House

3) No cars in Scotland have GB stickers.  I wondered whether our GB sicker was the reason why I was being flashed by passing cars.  Of course it is too far to France from Glasgow, but also it's political.
4) The Horse Chestnut trees are fine in Scotland.  It was good to see them looking healthy.
5) It was fascinating to see the Loch Lomond discontinuity.  This is along the lowlands/highlands fault line and crosses the loch and up into Conix Hill.

My first find, at Dave Macha's church in Burnsell

6) Having seen the Goven viking Hogbacks, I now have to see the Brompton Hogbacks in Yorkshire.

Govan Hogbacks

Brompton Hogbacks

7) You can get the train from Glasgow to Langs.  Cross to Great Cambrae Island, and be in the smallest Cathedral in the British Isles.  It's important in the story of the Oxford Movement, which revitalized the Anglo-Catholic Church in England.  Designed by Butterworth of Keble College fame, it feature walls of tiles, giving the rather rude description of lavatory Gothic.

80 seats for the conregation

Fine wall tiling

Episcopal Cathedral of Argyle and the Islands

The Barn at Finlaystone

Anna Bennett and Family with us

Finlaystone gardens

Sarah finishes her triathlon

Ruth finishes is style

Alistair Brownlee eventually comes fourth to Pierre LeCorre

The vibe in George Square, Glasgow

Ferry over to Great Cambrae Island

Margaret's turn

Margaret and Andrew building a craggan

The Lighthouse, Glasgow