A HERALD feature on Irish musician Rory Gallagher reminds David Martin: "A young Rory, along with his band Taste, was booked by a former colleague of mine to play at Kirkcaldy's YMCA.

Jimmy Lee had already had experience of booking such late 60s bands like Marmalade and Led Zeppelin, but when asked in all honesty by Rory about where he could possibly go for confession the next day, he had to ask him, 'Why? What are you planning on doing tonight?'"

WE asked about driving tests and Eddie Orme in Mid Calder recounts: "Many years ago I worked with a young woman who declared to her work colleagues that she'd failed her driving test, due to her 'Poor crotch control'."

And Hamish Thorburn recalls: "When sitting my test I was told to turn right, and use hand signals. I indicated with my arm out, and changed gear with other hand, while holding the steering wheel with my knees. I failed. The next time at the emergency stop my briefcase on the rear shelf hit the same examiner on the back of the head. I failed again.

"The next time the same examiner had me start off, turn right, turn right, and turn right again. This brought us back to Test Centre we had left 10 minutes before. He handed me my pass slip, said he was giving me the benefit of the doubt, and got out of the car."

THE Royal Family issued new pictures of Prince George and his wee sister at the weekend. They were lovely of course. But as one reader commented: "I'm no royalist, but I have a begrudging admiration for the Royal Family's ability to make an infant look like a middle-aged man."

LOTS of people worried about the lower drink/driving limits in Scotland. A south side reader was stopped and breathalysed one morning on his way to work. He passed, but he asked his lawyer brother if police could randomly give you such a test. His brother explained that they need "reasonable cause" to think you might have been drinking. As luck would have it he was pulled over just a few weeks later in a random traffic stop and when the officer approached him with a breathalyser our reader plucked up the courage to ask him what his "reasonable cause" was.

The officer merely told him: "Don't be a smart-alex" and held out the kit for him to take. Oh and he might not have said "alex".

A NEWTON Mearns reader tells us: "I couldn't resist it, but I had a repair man in the house fixing the boiler, and while I was watching him work, he asked what time it was. So I said, 'Sometime between 8am and 1 pm."

SNP MSP Humza Yousaf has announced he will be standing against former Scottish Labour Party leader Johann Lamont in Glasgow at the Holyrood elections next year. We like Humza's robust style. When someone on social media told him: "Your Muslim, not Scottish" Humza replied: "You're grammatically incorrect and not very bright."

A READER discussing fitness in his Ayrshire golf club was told by a fellow member: "My doctor said I should jog five miles every day to get fit. I waited a week, phoned the doc back and said to him, 'OK I'm in Lesmahagow, what do I do now?'"

THE St Andrew's Sporting Club, which combines fine dining with boxing, held its latest promotion at the Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow last week for the first time since promoter Tommy Gilmour retired from running the great institution. Sports presenter Tam Cowan couldn't resist joking: "Tommy's dead against women's boxing - and so am I. It's terrible watching the girls holding back the tears when the MC tells everyone their weight."

SAYS reader John Marshall: "I read with interest the news story that Morrison's Academy in Crieff was dropping cricket! It begs the question, Howzat?"

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Says Barney Macfarlane: "Spotted this notice on a folding ramp. Fifty-five years of age and they tell me now!"