Friday 23 May 2009

on the Edinburgh-Glasgow train
Another library day, after spending a lot of this week preparing for the company AGM. In today's lunch break between the rooftop Centre for Research Collections at Edinburgh University and the NLS, I stolled across the Meadows in the sunshine to go shopping for a cycling jacket.  It's bright yellow and rather ugly, but in Glasgow if you want pedestrians or motorists to have any chance of noticing your existence, you have to be beyond obvious. Wearing otherwise sensible clothing isn't really an option if you want to stay unhurt.

In the NLS I got a three-year ticket which is great, even if now I'm a 'customer' rather than a reader. I looked down at just the wrong moment getting my photo taken, so rather than a full-on mug shot, my customer card is a moody portrait of male pattern baldness.