Pollok Park in the rain

I went for a walk with Ally W this afternoon in Pollok Park. It was raining but we had our rain jackets and we had a good walk. The park was remarkably flooded; I know it has been wet but I didn’t think there had been that much rain, to cause streams to overflow and huge puddles on the paths. 

When I got home I ran myself a nice hot bath and changed into properly dry clothes so that I wouldn’t get chilled. 

After watching the last episode of “Traces”, a murder mystery set in Dundee (I have recommended it to Davie and Chanel because it has lovely views of Dundee throughout), Ally was showing me footage of a recent SpaceX launch on YouTube; it was an unmanned flight after which the rocket landed back down again, although it did explode as it landed. There’s another one coming up soon. For some reason this put me in mind of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster which I remember well from watching it on the news at the time in our wee house in Snaefell Avenue. I feel as if I saw it happening live, but I’m not sure if that’s the case. Anyway, I looked it up on YouTube and to my surprise I realised that, by coincidence, today is the 35th Anniversary of the disaster, which took place on 28th January 1986. It was very sad.