THE Herald reports that Prince Harry acted as a dummy for ventriloquist Nina Conti at the Queen's 90th birthday party. "It's always a special moment when a young man finds his level," author Chris Brookmyre tweets.

GEORGE Devine, spotting yesterday's item about not communicating, says he recently met Sean McGuigan, who rowed the Atlantic in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. His original team-mate had to be replaced at short notice. On their first night together, the new bloke said: "Sorry ... were you talking to me? I should have mentioned, I'm not one for conversations." Marvels George: "The trip lasted 72 days."

PHOTOGRAPHED rummaging through Glasgow's Barras has been Gok Wan - stylist, designer, drawer, TV presenter, cook, writer and talker, to quote his Twitter bio - while looking for bargains for the next series of the TV show, Fill Your House for Free. Prior to his arrival in Glasgow, he'd asked his Twitter followers to suggest what he should here. Sensible suggestions came thick and fast - Kelvingrove, the Botanic Gardens, the Ubiquitous Chip, etc - but a mischievous spirit shone through others: "Get steaming drunk on Buckfast would be appropriate" and "Get a selfie with the duke..... Then a haggis supper and a can of bru! Living the dream". The enthusiastic tone was arguably lowered, however, when someone urged Gok to reveal a part of himself never before seen in public: "Gie's a swatch av yer b***y," she wrote. We suspect Gok might have raised an eyebrow at that one.

HYDRO, more of. Allan Morrison suggests the venue's nickname should be "The Heedrum Hydro"; and Steve Brennan says: "Surely, standing next to the Armadillo, The Hydro is The Chameleon for constantly changing colour?" Any more suggestions?

YESTERDAY'S Herald story about the church organist and the employment tribunal reminded Russell Smith of the story of the minister and lady organist. They found her pants in his vestry and his vest in her pantry.

THAT same edition also carried a story about a drinks buggy to be launched at Trump's Turnberry golf course. This isn't a new idea, says Tom Smith. Back in the 1980s his daughter Catriona had a summer job driving and serving drinks from a buggy on the Championship Ailsa course. She parked it beside the ninth fairway and did a roaring business. Says Tom: "My wife Mary and I were in a Cyprus hotel for a holiday when we were approached by a large American who had seen my Turnberry sweater. He was keen to tell me how much he had enjoyed the course, but the highlight of it for him was the ‘cute chick with the hot pants on the buggy at the ninth hole.' Coldly (and with some menace, Mary says), I told him that she was our daughter. He kept well out of my way after that.'"

SPEAKING of the drinks buggy, Dave Rattray says he hopes no-one is caught short as a result - look at what happened last week, he points out, to the woman who was charged after allegedly answering a call of nature among the dunes at Trump's other course, up in Aberdeenshire.