SPRING is finally arriving in Scotland. A Lenzie reader admits to us: "I was first in my street to cut the grass at the weekend, and now all the other husbands are looking at me as if I was the lad in school who reminded teacher that she hadn't given us any homework."

IT came as a shock to many parents when their children had their last day of sixth year the other day in Scottish schools. They couldn't believe their little ones are heading off into the world, as it seems only yesterday they were posing in their giant primary one school blazers. But as one Bearsden mother put it: "The daughter is off to a Leavers' Day. I had never heard of such a thing. Then there is her Class of 2016 hoodie, Year Book and Prom. When we left school we just rushed out the door and never looked back."

MUST mention the big sports story - Leicester winning the English Premier League. Daniel Bonar in Edinburgh swears blind that former Celtic manager Neil Lennon was discussing the win on the radio station TalkSport when he stated: "We won't see this again - 5000/1 to win the league...what are the odds?"

Former Leicester player Gary Lineker, now sports presenter, famously said he would present his programme in only his pants if Leicester won the league, so now bookies Paddy Power are offering odds on what colour his underthings will be, with Leicester's colour of blue odds on at 4/9. The perhaps less attractive colour brown are at 50/1.

OF course social media can be unforgiving. Some observers are pointing out that Gary, while celebrating the amazing Leicester victory, did state on social media when Leicester hired their manager: "Claudio Ranieri? Really?"

THE BROONS, Scotland's most famous fictional family, are to appear for the first time in a play by Rob Drummond at Glasgow's Theatre Royal in November. It reminds us of the Sunday Post reader who once argued: "Eight weans, and the only two who look alike are the twins. If I was Pa Broon I'd be getting some tests done at the DNA clinic."

OH and someone says there is an election this week in Scotland, although you wouldn't really notice in the country's streets where posters are rare. Still, we were cheered by a press release from Highland Lib Dem candidate in Inverness, Carolyn Caddick, about the SNP Government delaying the publication of a national survey. Her press release has the splendid title "Is delay of neumracy and literacy figures SNP jiggery-pokery?"

"He that is without sin," as someone very famous once said.

GROWING old continued. As a reader in Jordanhill tells us: "I've reached the stage where if I drop something on the floor and I can't pick it up with my foot, then it's staying there."

BEEN on holiday for a few days, but within minutes of returning a colleague tracked me down to pat me on the back and declare: "The wife thinks she can hang all the washing in the cellar. I'll have to take her down a peg or two."

TODAY'S piece of whimsy comes from Scott Hoad who says: "Hank Marvin is surprisingly well known for someone who has spent almost their entire life in the shadows."