Anyone in or near Dundee?

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20051

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tandy, Heidi" <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:
> from http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/ thanks to a link from
> http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org - 
> 
> WRITER JK Rowling has joined forces with world-famous architect
> Frank Gehry to bring a cancer care centre to Tayside. **The Harry
> Potter author will be in Dundee this weekend to raise funds for
> Maggie's Centre, a building which Gehry has designed for free.
> Rowling will appear before 1,300 Harry Potter fans from around
> Scotland to answer questions and read from her latest work,
> Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.** 
> 
> The event in the Caird Hall hopes to raise £10,000 for the Maggie
> Cancer Caring Centre Appeal. 

Whoops, saw this too late - but I was kind of busy yesterday -
although, as it happened, most of the younger HP fans in my
extended family were visiting yesterday evening, anyway.

I hadn't heard of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, but according
to http://www.maggies.ed.ac.uk/ it's what you might call a
para-clinical support unit, or, as they put it, "a place for
people who have cancer, their families and friends."  Apparently
quite a small working group, there is one centre opened in
Edinburgh (how JKR got enlisted perhaps?), this one planned
in Dundee, and they're raising funds for one here in Glasgow -
I must remember to watch out in case JKR turns up for that too,
round up the troop...

Britain does have free health care, but www.maggies.ed.ac.uk
explains some of our system's shortcomings.  Objectively,
health care in Africa may be a better cause to support -
including cancer and of course AIDS - but I live here.

Since this is all very worthy but totally off-topic, I'd
better say something at least nearly relevant.  How about
St. Mungo?  Well, apparently St. Mungo came to live as our
neighbourhood patron saint in Glasgow (we gave him the name
Mungo, he used to be called Kentigern) because the people he
lived with in Culross didn't approve of his miraculous powers.
That's according to www.glasgow.gov.uk anyway (if I'm reading
it right), and doesn't it remind you of someone?

Robert Carnegie
Meretricious!