My mom, aka Clucky (her grandmother name that came about since she has chickens), arrived on Saturday, just in time to see Cormac's performance for a theatre camp he had been attending last week at the Citizens Theatre. The performance was amazing, opening with some poses and movement that created slow motion abstract tableaux, leading into a brief, modern version of King Lear. All the teen actors did a great job expressing the emotions of Lear and his daughters through movement and words. The group had created the whole play through improv around the themes and emotions of King Lear (warms an English teacher's heart!). The lead tutor's son was finishing his dissertation on Cormac McCarthy, so he warmed to our Cormac right away!
Today, we took Clucky to the Botanics, where they were having an orchid show. We were dazzled by the variety and array of blooms. Below is just a very small sample of the gorgeous flowers we saw.
Following a great lunch at Mother India Cafe, we headed into the Kelvingrove Museum, where we were once again impressed by their eclectic and interesting collection of art, artifacts, clothes, taxidermy, tartans, furniture, jewelry, etc. You have to love a museum that has both these statues -- from Greek god to rock-n-roll king!
A circuitous return home through the university showed Clucky to be the most stalwart of walkers!
Then, just as we were dishing up dinner, our dear friends, Martin and Lesa arrived in a taxi. So, we all ate lamb curry with vegies (from the farmers' market) -- just like back in Bangor where we enjoy many meals together. Though after dinner we went out to the pubs, which does not happen back home very often (at least for us).
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