GOSH it was all a bit rowdy down at George Square yesterday with whistles being blown, chanting and loudspeakers.

The noise though was coming from a Unison union demonstration outside the City Chambers. Just yards away the campaign to legalise cannabis was simply playing reggae music quietly while folk sat around smoking. Strange smell in the air I couldn't quite place. So, good to see the stereotypes for both groups being adhered to.

Incidentally the chap with an amusing T-shirt seemed to be standing between the two groups so I couldn't work out who he was with. His T-shirt read: "A lot has been said about politics. Some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate."

EYE-CATCHING launch for the SNP manifesto yesterday at the international climbing centre. My former colleague Mandy Rhodes who was there reminisced: "I remember the SNP manifesto launches in the old McDonald Road party HQ, and they used to give out sweets to encourage the media to attend."

NEED some advice about election day? Simon Blackwell explains: "Unsure whether to vote? It's so easy. Just go in, make your choice with a little pen, and they give you a kettle. No, sorry, that's Argos."

OH this will be a sore one for some people. We asked for updates to the Glasgow motto about the fish that never swam and so on. John Mulholland comes right up to date with: "The treble that never materialised."

WE are always amazed at news ways shops find to turn an honest penny. David Donaldson spots a shop in Glasgow's Crow Road which is selling frames for putting in your child's ultrasound picture before it is even born. Recalls David: "Reminds me of the dinner party long before digital cameras and programmes like 'One Born Every Minute' where the guests included a young Swedish couple who had recently had their first child. 'Would you like to see photograph?' asked Olle, the proud father, producing from his pocket a set of prints (remember them?) taken in the delivery suite of the baby's head emerging.

"Nobody asked for seconds."

A READER phones to tell us: "I imagine that if a large asteroid crashed into the planet there would be teenagers everywhere taking white ear buds out of their ears and asking angrily, 'What?'"

A PIECE of whimsy from Ian Power who tells us of the chap at a job interview who is asked: "Your CV says meticulous research is your main strength. Could you elaborate?"

And the chap replied: "You forgot to put out your bins today."

A COLLEAGUE wanders over when we are furiously typing and interrupts us with: "I never do any training for the marathon. It doesn't help in the long run."

Norrie Christie gives the jam maker 11 out of 10.