Today we went to Perth. It as a plan. Today, Good Friday, was forecast to be the best day of the holiday weekend. I needed coffee and Perth is where my preferred coffee bean shop is. It was also announced last night on the news that Scamp’s favourite ladies wear shop, McEwan’s of Perth had gone into administration and was opening today for the start of the closing down sale. Soooo, we were off to Perth today.
The road was busy on the way north and every time the traffic started to jam up, I said “Oh, oh! This is where the queue for McEwan’s starts.” Actually, the road wasn’t all that busy, considering it was the start of the Easter holidays and it was a sunny day. But every car seemed to have bikes on the back or a Thule style rack on the roof. It looked like everyone seemed to want to get out of Glasgow and Edinburgh and head north to the great wide open. Maybe that was the plan, but it looked like the ‘great wide open’ was going to be closed by the time they all got there. When we arrived at Perth, there were roadworks on the road into the city. Like a few others, I bit the bullet and headed back to the swimming pool and parked there, despite the signs saying that these parking spaces were for ‘users of the facilities only.’ I wasn’t sure what the ‘facilites’ were, but I was using the facilities of Perth itself, so I felt secure in my decision to park there.
When we wandered round Perth after getting the essential coffee beans, we found the real queue for McEwan’s. Apparently it was estimated that over 400 people were waiting to get in through the doors and because the company had paid off more than half its staff with immediate effect last night, only 20 customers at a time were being allowed in. There were going to be a lot of long faces in Perth tonight.
After our return from Perth, I managed an hour in St Mo’s in a biting north wind. Got a few photos of some deer and I fed the ducks. So, that was Good Friday. Not so good for the hundred odd McEwan’s staff without jobs after this week.