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The PM's Tea FORMER PM's wife Cherie Blair, in Edinburgh to talk about her autobiography, Speaking for Myself, said that far from discussing politics when husband Tony got home, one of his first questions when he came through the door was usually "Where's my dinner?" Goodness, you can just tell that his dad came from Glasgow originally can't you?
Who goes there?
CHERIE also explained that after leaving No 10, she looked forward to getting a key, as she hadn't had a front door key for 10 years. She then explained she still didn't have a key, as her new home has 24-hour security.
A puzzled audience member asked: "Do you have to ring the bell?"
"Fortunately, they do recognise me," explained Cherie.
Engrave trouble
THE woman having an after-shopping spritzer with her pal in All Bar One in Glasgow was discussing her wedding plans, and whether she should have something meaningful engraved on the inside of her future husband's wedding ring.
"How about Put it back on'," suggested her pal.
Good-looking corpse
CATHERINE Lockerbie, director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, is delighted that Sean Connery, below, will be appearing on the day his first book, Being A Scot, is published. She recalled the story of Sean being given the accolade of "Sexiest Man Alive" by People Magazine, and his reply being:
"Well, there aren't many sexy dead men are there?"
Some useless facts
MARK Mason's new book on trivia, The Importance of Being Trivial, tells us that actor Robert de Niro, pictured, for his role in Taxi Driver, worked as a real cabbie. One chap who jumped in the back knew him, and asked: "What happened, Bobby? You won an Oscar two years ago." And appearing in a West End play, Ralph Richardson paused mid-speech to ask: "Is there a doctor in the house?" When an audience member put up his hand, Richardson announced: "Bloody terrible play, isn't it, doctor?" But if trivia is all about insignificant facts that nevertheless lodge in the brain, then we should tell you from the book that the Starbucks coffee shop chain is named after a character in the novel Moby Dick.
Galloway gets away
FUEL is so expensive these days . . . but we wouldn't recommend what Real Radio presenter Robin Galloway did at the Shell station in Garrowhill.
He filled his car, went in to pick up the morning papers, chatted to Ann-Marie the cashier, and strolled off without paying. Ann-Marie phoned Real Radio, where fellow presenter Cat Harvey used her credit card to pay his debt.
We understand that Real staff are now calling him Robbing Galloway.
Different fare
AN exhibition of the iconic photographs from leading American culture magazine Vanity Fair has opened at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Vanity Fair's David Friend, co-curator of the exhibition, was in talks with a potential sponsor of a book of the images, and was baffled when the company pulled out, claiming there was too much nudity in the magazine.
David fears they may have picked up the more down- market top-shelf magazine Mayfair, beloved of testosterone-charged teenage boys, rather than the upmarket New York publication.
Bouncing baby
OUR story of the baby crying on the plane reminds Alex McCluskey of an early-morning flight to Manchester from Glasgow which was full of business types. Suddenly, the plane dropped a couple of hundred feet owing to turbulence, and armrests were silently gripped by business chaps trying to keep the worry out of their eyes.
The tension was broken by a toddler laughing and yelling: "Again! Again!" Everyone remembered being two-years-old and laughed.
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