RUSSIAN oligarch and Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich has been visiting Arran from his luxury yacht. Iain MacLean tells us that a local musician in a pub in Lochranza felt he had to mark the occasion by singing: "Putin on the agony, Putin on the style, Isn't life amazing when you own lots of ile".

LOTS of young people in Glasgow yesterday with rucksacks and cases of beer, which can only mean one thing - it's T in the Park festival time again. We remember an attendee on a previous occasion telling us: "Noticed one guy with his girlfriend heading to the campsite. As the girl strode ahead in her wellies, empty-handed, her dutiful boyfriend - carrying two crates of beer, a tent and a backpack - eventually stopped and shouted, 'At what point am I supposed to be having fun?'"

And in that fine festival tradition, Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, once remarked: "It's the best festival in the world. Certainly the drunkest. I remember being naked at one point afterwards, or at least I think it was me."

THE HERALD reported that archaeologists have discovered that hunter-gatherers were living in the Cairngorms some 10,000 years ago - some 3000 years earlier than previously thought. Victor Brierley sees The Herald story and tells us: "The cafe at the top hasn't changed. Same scones."

OUR stories about Edinburgh/Glasgow rivalry remind David Will in Milngavie: "In the late sixties I was hired by an Edinburgh advertising agency. Being the only Glaswegian there I was anxious to establish the humour of the west in what could be a rather haughty and serious atmosphere. Taking a sheet of Letraset, I added 'for the memories' to the lavatory bowl of the staff toilet, which of course had been made by Shanks."

DOWN south the poor dears in London were trying to cope yesterday with a Tube strike, as the city's buses were mobbed with folk trying to get to work. One normal bus user Robyn Vinter remarked: "My bus is filled with Tube-goers. They have iPads and talk about team-building exercises. They do not belong with us bus people."

BUMP into former Herald colleague Mark Bratchpiece who tells us he has a book of jokey poems on Kindle, 'What Rhymes with Schmuck?' We have a quick look and must pass on: "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill phoned Claims Direct."

Superb.

SO what's been happening down in Westminster. Glasgow MP Carol Monaghan reveals: "Overheard Tories chatting - apparently 60% of Greek voters misunderstood the question. Have heard them say similar of Scottish electorate."

TALKING of Greece, American travel writer Susan Barnes was there the other day where a local, discussing the financial crisis, remarked: "If you see Angelina Jolie adopt a Greek child, then you know we're in trouble."

FED up with housework? A reader heard a woman explain to her pals in a Glasgow coffee shop: "Instead of cleaning my house I just watch an episode of Hoarders on the telly, and think, 'Wow, my house looks great'."