It was a very early start for our Creative Learning Manager recently when she left the Southside of Glasgow for an outreach session in Cramond, Edinburgh this month. Of course the old truism of Scottish weather (if it's raining in Glasgow it's sunny in Edinburgh) proved the case when the bus finally pulled up in Cramond village.

One of the strands of our 3 Year Creative Learning Strategy plan is to tackle social isolation in older people by providing outreach visits, and most especially to care and residential homes. We kicked off the programme with this visit, and what a lovely one it was. Residents enjoyed a talk and presentation about Mackintosh At The Willow, and it was great to hear folk's memories of shopping on Sauchiehall Street back when it was a bit more upmarket than it is nowadays (Daly's department store, anyone?)