GOSH, it's all getting a bit exciting in the referendum campaign.

Yes supporters are telling each other to make one final push, and one chap put on Facebook: "Hey, undecideds. Message me with questions if you want to know about voting Yes. I'll do my best to answer even although I'm on holiday."

The first response was from his girlfriend. She wrote: "It's right racy being on holiday in Miami with you on a Saturday night and no mistake."

Right on the money

INTERESTING too to see the reaction of English folk visiting Scotland to the referendum. As Juliet Meyers says: "It's a bit awkward exiting cabs in Edinburgh, and as the driver hands me my change, saying 'Keep the pound' as if I'm telling Scotland what to do."

A whiff of Rivers

THE sad death of Joan Rivers reminds us of the time she appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe. Eating later in the upmarket Witchery restaurant, she toured the tables to give ladies dining there samples of her own-label perfume. One posh woman thought it was smart to sniff the perfume and tell her friends: "It smells like something you would clean the toilets with.''

Across the table a friend merely smiled and asked her when she had ever cleaned her own toilet.

The Irish question

THE country is being zig-zagged just now with cars packed with suitcases and bedding as parents drop children off at university for the first time. Maxine Jones in Ireland tells us of her son's farewell party with his mates before leaving for Dundee University. They were discussing what snippets of the Irish language they remembered from the lessons in primary school.

The only Irish sentence they all recalled was: "Please Miss, can I go to the toilet?"

Safer way to walk

WE also remember the retired police officer who told us that during Freshers Week in Glasgow one year he stopped an intoxicated student walking backwards down Sauchiehall Street. The lad told him he was making sure no-one sneaked up on him.

Any other off-to-university memories?

Staying cool under fire

WE were impressed by the sangfroid of Glasgow's Indigo Hotel manager Denis MacCann who held a reception to launch the hotel's new restaurant, created by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, days after Sunday Herald food critic Joanna Blythman lambasted it.

Denis told his guests: "We've only been open for a couple of weeks and everyone who has eaten here has been raving about it. In fact I think we only had one person who didn't enjoy their meal. Oh and sorry, there's no Sunday Herald at reception."

In tune with youth

A READER tells us: "Walking down Buchanan Street on Saturday I said the buskers were awfy young. My better half, bless her, said it was better than hanging about the streets."

A fair indication

EVEN more of a misogynist is the chap who tells us: "If the woman in the car in front turns her windscreen wipers on even though it's not raining, it can only mean one thing - she's about to turn right or left."