The Burrell

I have only been to the Burrell once since it reopened earlier this year, and it’s many years since Davie has been. Chanel has never visited it. So it seemed like a good venue for a wee pre-Christmas outing. And indeed it was, it’s an interesting collection of miscellaneous artefacts that caught William Burrell’s fancy on his travels, although James rather harshly refers to it as a jumble sale! We started off with a light lunch in the café, and then went for a wander around the galleries, chatting and using the interactive games which were good fun. There was a particularly lovely tapestry which I hadn’t noticed before, embroidered with a field of flowers among which lurked dragons and griffins and a creature with a dragon’s body and a chicken’s head which is called a “cockatrice.”

Then it was time to do the last of the Christmas food shopping; I went to both Sainsbury’s and Marks and Spencer’s at Kingsgate to get the last few items I needed for Christmas dinner, and also some venison for a casserole that I made later, for the Reid’s’ lunch on the 27th. Both shops were busy but not unreasonably so, and I felt quite efficient as I drove home in the happy knowledge that all of my festive errands are done.