SPOTTED online - someone who says he has decided to auction all his John Lennon memorabilia on eBay.

"Imagine all the PayPal," he adds.

Well kent face

RICHARD Attenborough was clearly the kind of man who left a lasting impression on you, even if you only met him once, and that was years ago.

A former Diary colleague recalls a story from the days when he was a "young and very raw reporter" in Motherwell. Dickie turned up one day, unannounced, at the launch of a community theatre project in a local housing scheme.

"I got an interview with The Great Man and he suggested we go for a drink afterwards," our man says. "Took him to the Crown Bar at Motherwell Cross, probably a lot rougher establishment than he was used to.

"The best bit were the double-takes of the other customers as we downed a couple of pints at the bar. Did my street-cred no end of good. A true gentleman."

Sit-down comedy

SO there was broadcaster Paul Coia in a Cardiff taxi, chatting away to the driver.

The driver complains at one point that he is overweight. Paul says it's because he has a sedentary job. "No, it's not that," comes the response. "It's because I sit down all day."

"They speak another language in Wales," Paul observes on Facebook.

Signed-up Quo member

MORE than 30 years after its demise, the Glasgow Apollo continues to be a source of great stories.

Tommy Adams says that, back in the 1970s, he met Status Quo's Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi at the Albany Hotel and was invited to the Apollo soundcheck.

As they left the Albany, some fans approached, seeking autographs. A girl asked Tommy for his but he modestly demurred.

In the car, Parfitt advised him to give his autograph to the next person who asked for it.

At that, a motorbike pulled up and its young rider passed his crash helmet in and asked for it to be signed. Eventually, he got it back - signed by everyone, including Tommy.

"Always wondered," he muses on the Apollo's Facebook page, "if he still shows it to people and they say, 'Who the hell is Tommy Adams?'"

Hiking up level of debate

MICHAEL Moore MP and Scottish Borders Council leader David Parker have embarked on a 97-mile charity fundraising walk that will feature, along the way, debates about the referendum.

The pair have opposite views on the issue of independence.

Reader John Delaney wishes them well but says if the No campaign decides that Mr Moore isn't tough enough to complete the journey, it might replace him with Alistair Carmichael ... again.

Homely advice

AND finally ... with Manchester United having secured just one point out of a possible six in their first two Barclays Premier League matches, Lord Sugar has tweeted some advice to United's new, Dutch-born manager, Louis van Gaal: "Suggest Mr van Gaal does not put his house on the market in Amsterdam."

Sugar is, of course, a long-time Spurs fan, so it is just possible that there is a measure of schadenfreude in all of this.