Friday 21 September 2007 (St Matthew, Ap ).
Busy, busy; too busy. Photocopying, preparing documents for an extra-ordinary Vestry meeting at church next Sunday after the morning Family Eucharist, to peruse our Insurers' Survey reports which request some immediate action. Then, Valerie and I had a nice soujourn by going for a late lunch yesterday at Sibbo Delhi Dhaba Indian Restaurant on Sauchiehall Street; a favourite haunt of ours where the food is prepared freshly and delicately by the family who run it. It is perhaps the best Indian restaurant I know in the City. The evening ended with a lovely concert in the City Halls by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra which included a new piece by the Finnish composer Saariaho, although for me the combination of conductor Ilan Volkov and Holst's The Planets ended a lovely day.
Oh, and including viewing the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 returning to her home port on her 40th birthday to the day. She was built at the John Brown Yard on the Clyde and 40 shipbuilders who worked on her construction were invited aboard. The RAF Red Arrows flew past and a pipe band played. The American passengers probably would have no understanding at all of the great affection Clydesiders have for their ships. Sadly she will end up as an hotel at Dubai in the Gulf States. What a sad end for a great Queen.
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