BBC presenter Kaye Adams, compering the Scottish Law Awards, admitted she is still having problems with Twitter.
She was on a train from Partick at 7am when she watched the unusual breakfast arrangements of the young girl opposite and tweeted: "Girl opposite me having a Crunchie and Red Bull for breakfast. Waiting for her eyes to pop and her head to turn 360 degrees."
At Coatbridge Sunnyside the girl got up to leave, tapped Kaye on the shoulder, and said: "It wisnae a Crunchie – it was a Wispa Gold."
A funny choice?
RECENTLY-RETIRED sheriff Douglas Cusine, who won the Herald-sponsored Lifetime Achievement Award at the Law Awards, modestly declared that there were two things to be learned from him being chosen. "That they could think of nobody else, and that the Law Society of Scotland has a sense of humour," he stated.
A bit of a doo
GLASGOW City Council's plans to redevelop George Square reminds us of businessman Malcolm Wishart walking across the square with a wicker picnic hamper after attending an Incorporation of Gardeners outing to Cowal. He was feeling rather dapper until halfway across the square, with the resident pigeons swirling around, a chap with a small refreshment in him shouted out: "Haw, big man! Wan o' yer pigeons has escaped."
Any other favourite George Square stories?
Jagging the memory
IAIN Macwhirter wrote in The Herald that a million people took to the streets of Barcelona as the city was drowned in yellow and red, and added: "It's hard to imagine anything like this happening in Scotland."
Buoyed by recent successes, Paul Bassett in Firhill loftily tells us: "Obviously never been round our way when Partick Thistle are playing at home."
Grand gesture
OUR removal tales remind Frances Woodward: "We got a baby grand piano delivered, and my mother was mildly surprised when they asked: 'Can ye play it hen?'.
"Apparently they had delivered one a few doors down, weren't allowed to use the front door in case they dirtied the carpet, and when they got it all set up, were told it was only for putting plants on. They vowed the next one they delivered, the owner had to be able to play or it would go back. So, once in place, my mother duly obliged with tea and biscuits and a recital."
War and piece
COMEDIAN Mark Steel, who is touring Scotland later this month, always likes to include local stories in his performance. We remember when he was in Berwick-upon-Tweed and heard the apocryphal yarn that Berwick was technically still at war with Russia as its name was missed off a peace treaty hundreds of years ago.
When Mark contacted the Foreign Office to verify this, he was loftily told: "If Berwick-upon-Tweed is at war with Russia, they certainly haven't informed us.
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