humpty Dundee

Saturday it rained (don't feel sorry for me - i have a waterproof coat!) so we drove to Dundee to see an exhibition about JUTE and have a look at the McManus Museum. we also saw two men in kilts and some sad, heavy drug-users begging along the walking street.

two things -
1) remember - DRIVING means the left side of the road. my brain in still scrambling to RE-ORIENT to this mirror version of operating an automobile in the u.s.of.a., still something of a comedy routine. but i am becoming more confident.
and
2) JUTE was a major industry for this part of the world and Dundee was the capital of it all complete with JUTE BARONS who owned enormous factories and employed hundreds and hundreds of workers paying them pittances for their back-breaking work. millions of bales of JUTE were imported from PAKISTAN in the 1800s and then woven, in Dundee, into fabric used for a myriad of purposes including roofing felt, underlament, bags and sacks, chair canvas, rope, tarpaulins, etc (see one modern permutation, below)

for some perverse reason, this Jute Mill was called "Verdant Works"

  the courtyard from above

JUTE COFFIN: a very modern use for an old-fashioned material

 

two wedding goers in full kilt-ish regalia - LOVE THE SHOES!

 

the McManus Museum in all its Gothic Splendor - dig the TOPIARY

 

McManus stairway looking DOWN

 

McManus stairway looking UP

 

narrow alley off the walking street