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| Cut from a different cloth | |
Our man struggling among the Pimm's at Henley Royal Regatta (£8.40 a pint, since you ask) reports the astounding development that, because of the sweltering weather, the stewards have allowed gentlemen to remove their
jackets within the stewards' enclosure. |
| Learning his lines | |
THE Edinburgh International Film Festival's closing awards ceremony at the weekend included Sir Sean Connery presenting the best British film award to sci-fi thriller Moon. While reading out the qualities that had earned the film its award, Sir Sean hesitated over his words a wee bit at the end, but then explained to his audience: "It's years since I've auditioned." |
| Read it and weep | |
Reader Craig Millar had to e-mail a number of GPs around Scotland, and was impressed by the automated reply from one in Ayrshire which read: "I have retired. This e-mail address will no longer be read. Friends know where to find me. Enemies do not." |
| Chest the job | | Dundee-born Oonagh O'Hagan was being interviewed on radio about her humorous book on flat-sharing, I Lick My Cheese, when reader Alan Couperwhite heard her declare: "I was pulling my hair out. I just wanted to get it off my chest." |
| Access all areas | |
THE CHIP in the West End's Ashton Lane has a narrow flight of stairs up to the first floor bar. From there is another tricky set of steps up to the roof terrace. Heading up there for a drink the other day was a chap who had bought two tyres for his mountain bike, which he propped up on either side of his roof terrace chair while sipping his pint. Eventually a chap detached himself from a group nearby having an earnest discussion, and sidled up to the tyre buyer to ask: "Sorry to bother you, but me and my mates cannot work out how you managed to get your wheelchair up here." |
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