A CHAP in Glasgow yesterday was asked by a visiting journalist if Scots were concerned about businesses pulling out if there was a Yes vote.

"Only if it was Greggs," he replied.

Not so Raving Loony

SHOWS you how strange the claims of the last few days have become when the Official Monster Raving Loony Party appears to say something sensible about Scotland. It has put on its website: "Rumour has it the Yes for Scotland campaign no longer want to use the pound as their currency, due to it being devalued so much as a result of the Scotland Yes campaign that it's not worth bothering with any more."

Jam-packed info

EVERYONE is trying to find signs of how the vote will go. An observation from Jo Caulfield, who tells us: "Just drove from Edinburgh to Aberdeen. Posters at side of road: 24 per cent Yes, 25 per cent No, and 51 per cent Homemade jam for sale."

Cough remedy

The Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships are being held in the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow all this week - the card playing one, not the make a river crossing out of spaghetti one.

The world of bridge was rocked last year at the World Championships in Bali when two elderly German doctors were thrown out the contest for allegedly using a code via coughs to secretly pass on what was in their hand.

So this year the cheeky Glasgow organisers have put a Fisherman's Friend throat lozenge beside every player taking part.

Swinging time for voters

THOUGHTS also turn to all the teenagers who are able to vote in the referendum. Eric Hudson in Bearsden tells us: "I was taking my granddaughter into the play area of Mugdock Park when I realised there were a good number of older teenage school students playing on the swings at the end of a field trip. However, it was time for them to leave as one of their teachers reminded them, shouting over the fence, 'On the bus. And have you looked at the average age of the people in here? You're old enough to vote in the referendum, but you think you should be playing on the swings?'"

Back to school?

MEANWHILE, in the West End there is a stooshie over the new Hillhead Primary School being so full that some parents are campaigning for the nursery attached to it to become part of the school, with the little ones turfed out.

So the Parent Council handed out a leaflet to parents this week that states: "There future is at risk. Make sure your child gets the primary education they are entitled to."

No doubt that education would include explaining the difference between "there" and "their".

Pain in the neck

TALKING of teaching, a Glasgow teacher was heard in the staff room this week explaining: "A pupil asked why I held my hand at my neck when I was putting something on the board.

"Didn't realise I did. I suggested I was regularly checking my pulse. Which I will increasingly be doing if they keep raising the retirement age ..."

Flag officer

After 10 Downing Street started flying a Saltire on Wednesday, so did the Ministry of Defence's main building in London. Allan Steele in Giffnock tells us a Scottish RAF officer walked into the MoD, nodded at the Saltire and told the door staff: "You needn't have gone to such trouble on my account."

All it got him was a blank look.