Noisy at Strathclyde Park

That's two days in a row that I have walked round Strathclyde Park, one of our regular haunts. It's a useful length of walk - almost exactly an hour - which can easily be fitted into a morning or an afternoon. Sometimes when the weather is dreich I call it "Strathbleak Park" but I'm very fond of it really.

Yesterday I walked round it with Davie while James and Alasdair were away hill climbing. The weather was fine and we had a good chat. He is a lovely person and very good to me.

Today I was back with James; again we were lucky with the weather despite the predicted rain and it was dry almost until we got back to the car. It's a well used park with lots of walkers, cyclists, rowers and sailors, but today it was particularly noisy for two reasons. First of all there were vintage cars revving noisily up and down the road (normally very quiet) and secondly there was a sort of mini festival going on in a fenced off area beside the water sports centre. Enquiries at the snack van (where we treated ourselves to a coffee) revealed that it is called "Stereofunk" and it is made up of various bands and DJs doing club music. The music was booming out across the water and was not unpleasant I suppose. It was a pity that the rain came on as we left although there were plenty of tents to provide shelter for the festival goers.