With a rare combination of sunshine and an early rise we explored more of the Forth & Clyde canal on our first weekend back this year. Winding through the somewhat seedy industrial past of Maryhill (below), through the less than salubrious Possil – avoiding some of its more famous residents – we made it past the  outskirts of Glasgow to Possil Marsh before in true Scottish walking tradition the weather turned nasty hastening our retreat.