OUR tales of ordering wine remind Tony Sykes: "In a friendly wee pub in Dumfries I had to advise the waitress I had ordered a bottle of the 1977 but she had brought me the 1978.
OUR tales of ordering wine remind Tony Sykes: \"In a friendly wee pub in Dumfries I had to advise the waitress I had ordered a bottle of the 1977 but she had brought me the 1978.
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With impeccable logic she said, 'Well it will be fresher then.'"
A city divided
HOWARD Tindall reads the just-published book about Poland during the Second World War, The Eagle Unbowed, which quotes a Russian schoolbook from the 1940s describing Glasgow from a somewhat biased Communist point of view. It stated: "The population consists of 95% exploited proletarians and 5% bloodsucker bourgeois. Every evening the bourgeois drive in their limousines, bespattering with mud the proletarians who look for the leavings of food in the gutters and dustbins."
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OUR tales of ordering wine remind Tony Sykes: "In a friendly wee pub in Dumfries I had to advise the waitress I had ordered a bottle of the 1977 but she had brought me the 1978.
With impeccable logic she said, 'Well it will be fresher then.'"
A city divided
HOWARD Tindall reads the just-published book about Poland during the Second World War, The Eagle Unbowed, which quotes a Russian schoolbook from the 1940s describing Glasgow from a somewhat biased Communist point of view. It stated: "The population consists of 95% exploited proletarians and 5% bloodsucker bourgeois. Every evening the bourgeois drive in their limousines, bespattering with mud the proletarians who look for the leavings of food in the gutters and dustbins."
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