A quiet day today, recovering from six hardish days and sorting our kit. Homemade pancakes for breakfast then it’s off to find a launderette. The service wash launderette on Well Street has no capacity but recommend a trip to the garage.
Moffat, it transpires, has an open air self-service launderette behind a petrol station! There are no signs or advertising and the machines are virtually hidden from the road, but they have their own washing liquid supplied, are cheap, kind to our clothes and very effective, so job done. Not too much luck with anything else though, as it is half day closing on Wednesday in Moffat which is the whole day here. This includes Moffat museum, even in August.
Rich needs a haircut as he is looking somewhat shaggy, but the first two hairdressers are closed. Shonagh’s, though, is open and they charge him £8 for the cut and eyebrow trim. Then it’s time for lunch at the Rumblin’ Tum, who are serving sweet potato and coconut soup as their soup of the day with, unsurprisingly, very few takers. We have sandwiches.
We then check for accommodation in Glasgow again and find some more hotel rooms added. They are very expensive but we are getting desperate, so book them anyway. We sit in the square enjoying a ‘99’ ice-cream each, oddly observed by an over-friendly, rather dishevelled looking rook.
Back at 29 Well Street, I arrange further prescriptions for our sons to bring to our Glasgow rendezvous and check our boots. They are not fully dry, despite the fine weather, and look as if they are starting to fail. I order some new boots too, that Yvonne has offered to bring up to Milngavie. We need to conserve our energy today: it’s a tough day tomorrow.