YES, a royal baby.
Not everyone was excited of course, with quite a few folk on social media playing the whole thing down. But as Rachael Phillips put it: "Funny how most of the people who comment that 'it's just a baby', are the same ones who bore us silly with pictures of their own kids."
THE other big event at the weekend was the Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao fight in Las Vegas which generated more money than any other fight in history. But as a reader wearily phones to ask us: "Now that it's over can we all stop pretending that we're interested in boxing?"
OUR story about posh churches reminds the Rev. Dr Johnston McKay: "When I was minister at Paisley Abbey, BBC Scotland made a series of films about the abbey, and I suggested that the production team took a camera crew into a nearby pub and ask what people thought of the abbey. One man, who said he was a churchgoer, was asked if he had ever considered becoming a member of Paisley Abbey. 'No' he said, 'because there's a long waiting list.' I recall telling the Kirk Session that impressions were sometimes quite revealing."
LAST month Royal Marines boarded a Cal-Mac ferry between Ardrossan and Brodick as part of naval exercises on the Clyde which quite excited the passengers. Reader Anna Paterson was on the ferry the other day and asked a crew member if they had known in advance it was going to happen. "Yes," he replied, "and I was annoyed they didn't buy tickets."
MEANWHILE in the election, political observers were surprised when The Sun newspaper backed the SNP in its Scottish edition, but favoured the Tories in its English edition. Deciding to go all musical on us, comedian Al Murray who is himself standing in the election, chanted: "The Sun has got two hats on. Hip, hip, hip hooray."
THEN there was Labour's Ed Miliband unveiling a giant stone with the party's election pledges carved on it. A Tory supporter contacts us to point out: "And he left some space at the bottom for the SNP to put on it what they want as well." Another wonders if Ed will now be known as "the limestone vow boy."
Anyway, it seems Tory Scottish leader Ruth Davidson was not impressed. As she said on social media: "Last year there was a Better Together plan to carve stuff in rock. Some folk were gung-ho for it while the rest of us argued it would look stupid, like a tombstone, and send the wrong message. The only sane Labour person against it was Johann Lamont - go figure."
ELSEWHERE in the UK of course, the SNP are not as popular as they appear to be in Scotland. A reader in London tells us: "A colleague at work told me that he should have called his son Scotland. When I asked why he replied, 'Goes on about wanting his independence even though he'll be back asking for a hand-out when it goes wrong. And he's rubbish at football."
A COLLEAGUE wanders over to interrupt us with his views on downloading music. He says: "Did you know Rockin' All Over the World is available for 99p on iTunes? They really should call it the Quid Pro Quo."
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"Shy or introverted cars need not apply," says James Doleman.
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