Working it out
HALFWAY through the Fair Fortnight, and a Glasgow reader tells us: "Was leaving the office last week and my boss shouted over: 'Don't think too much about your work when you're on holiday!' Do you think I went too far by shouting back: 'I don't even think about it when I'm here'?"
Worth a shot
SHOCKER of a start for local star Rory McIlroy at The Open's first round at Royal Portrush with an eight at the first, followed by a 13 at the seventh by former world Number 1 David Duval. As our old colleague Ruth Wishart put it: "A one-time golfing superstar has just run up a 13 at a single hole. Thirteen! May have to dust off the clubs currently adding a sporting touch to the garage."
Whoopsie
WE asked about your trips to France and Richard Hunter in Killearn says: "I clear up the dog poo – 'caca' in colloquial French – on the lawn of our French holiday house each week before my lovely gardener comes round to do his stuff. One week I said to him: 'J’ai fait le caca dans le jardin', intending to say I’d cleared it for him as usual. We both split our sides when he asked me in French where in particular I’d done the caca."
Nursed it
REMEMBERING the Moon landing, continued. Recalled Glasgow actor Gavin Mitchell: "I actually remember watching the Moon landing, I even remember what I was wearing – it was a nurse's uniform free with Twinkle, a girls comic. This consisted of a plastic Red Cross apron and hat. And I kept trying to administer treatment to my big brother who was lying on the couch trying to watch the event as I got in his way. I always had a sense of theatricality, gender fluidity, pushing my range, and being bloody annoying."
Remembering Rony
SUCH sad news that Rony Bridges, scriptwriter, actor, gallery owner, pub manager and more recently charity organiser, has died. Starchild, which he organised with his lovely partner Michaela Foster Marsh, has helped build and run a school in Uganda which has more than 100 pupils. His other big success was when he wrote Six and a Tanner, a moving play about growing up in Springburn with an alcoholic domineering father. It was put on at Greenock Prison, and afterwards a chuffed Rony told actor Tony Roper: "One lifer told me it was the most powerful piece of drama he had ever seen."
"To be fair," replied Tony cautiously, "he probably doesn't get out much."
Drink to that
LOTS of folk on social media going on about an app that takes your picture and shows you what you would look like when you are older. "I got the same result just looking in the bathroom mirror," says one reader. And as Mike Ritchie tells us: "The social media excitement about FaceApps didn’t extend to one disgruntled Facebook poster in Glasgow. 'If you want to see what you’ll look like when you are old then you should just go to The Lismore,' he said, referring to the regulars in a more traditional bar in the city's west end."
Wishy washy
DAN Regan tells us of a conversation which illustrates the tensions that can suddenly appear in a marriage. "Wife: 'Did you put the clothes in the washer?' Me: 'Yes'. Wife, 'Did you turn it on?' Me, 'You didn't tell me to'."
Read more: 1941: ‘A war-time feast of light, colour, fun and music’
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here