Encased

Oh dearie me, what a grey day; muggy and damp. But no worries, His Lordship and I are off soon to find some Sunshine on Leith transported for our benefit to the Filmhouse Cinema.
We are going to sit in the back row, eat ice creams .......... and ......sing along with the Proclaimers' songs; we are too old to indulge in other diversionary tactics, we will be more chaste than the chaste.

Before that, a trip to the gym after it's refit afforded a somewhat daunting entrance experience.
They have done away with the revolving metal pronged barrier activated by the insertion of a PIN number. Instead there are glass cylinders, the front of which opens with the keying in of your Pin. You enter and the door shuts behind you leaving you totally encased in glass for a heart stopping second. Only then does the back open, allowing you to exit to the other side.

I do wonder how the claustrophobic person feels about the new entry system.