Ian: Our local Kelvingrove gallery and Museum re-opened last month after a multi-million pound refurbishment and we went to take a look. So huge is the collection, that we'll have to go back another day to see the other half. Magnificent building ! Aparently Scotlands most visited museum.


This is the 'elephant being chased by a plane' exhibit.

and in amongst the stuffed wildlife and geological exhibits, there's Elvis. A wide-ranging collection for sure !

and some of the installation artwork.

More to come !

We were watching one of the many great tv documentaries about our new home (the U.K.) which told us that this island used to be a tropical forest with huge treeferns growing here and if we wanted proof, to go to Victoria Park in Glasgow, just a kilometer from us, where we found the fossilised stumps of the treeferns.

And here they are ...