Walk the walk
WITH all the talk about whether Glasgow Airport should get a rail link to the city, we are much taken with the chap on travel site TripAdvisor this week declaring: "I was quite angry about the £7.50 bus price from Glasgow Airport to the city centre which seems like robbery. The Glasgow Airport website says there is a footpath to city centre, but airport staff couldn't tell me anything about it. There is indeed a path but the only thing is, it will take you nearly three hours walking.
"Is it worth it? On the one hand I saved £7, but on the other I was exhausted."
A fellow traveller replied scathingly: "What did you expect? Could be a challenge with luggage, but hey, you saved the cost of nearly two pints!"
Fare enough
ALSO on the move was the respected American news show 60 Minutes which sent their senior presenter Steve Kroft to visit the tiny Scots island of Eigg to explain to Americans what life was like there with only 100 or so folk living on an island just five miles long. The first person he interviewed was bearded Charlie Galli the island's only taxi driver who doesn't get a lot of business it has to be said. When Steve asked him what his average day was like, Charlie answered philosophically: "Some people would say very lazy. I like to think I just make the hard work look easy. All depends on your outlook."
Solving a problem
WE mentioned Glasgow's Theatre Royal celebrating its 150th anniversary this week and a reader recalls a singalong Sound of Music there which was a riotous night, with many folk in costume and much banter shouted out. There were folk invited on stage for a best-dressed contest and he tells us: "One of the many Marias was asked to do a twirl. Her suitcase went flying and hit a nearby Nazi officer in the Goebbels."
Cliff hanger
TODAY'S sheer daftness comes from Moose Allain who says: "'I've built a model of Mount Everest'. 'Is that to scale?' 'No, just to look at'."
Music to her ears
GOOD to see the singer Annie Lennox being named as the new Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University. We remember when she received an honorary degree from the RSAMD in Glasgow, and the member of staff sent to collect Annie from the airport was a bit nervous about meeting her. Her fears vanished as Annie put her at ease by singing all the way into town.
Burger this
ROB Smith poses a question we had never considered before as he tells us: “We attended the Glasgow Warriors and Ospreys match in Swansea on Sunday and as the game was at lunchtime we purchased two burgers from the van at the stadium, but as we went in the security guard refused to let us in unless we showed him a receipt for our burgers. We had to stand and eat them outside the stadium before we could go in. Has anyone ever had a receipt from a burger van?”
Going up in the world
A GLASGOW reader swears to us he heard a young chap tell his pal: "I offered my gran a fiver for a shot on her new stair-lift.
"I think she's going to take me up on it."
Needs examined
TOO busy daydreaming in the office so was unable to avoid a colleague who stopped us and declared: "I told the doctor that whenever I hear a diagnosis, my leg twitches violently. He said, 'I know why that is. You'll kick yourself when I tell you'."
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