Party time
AFTER our story about talking to children about World War One, Patricia Allison tells us: "My grand-daughter aged 10 was also taught about the anniversary of WWI back in November. After school she asked her Mum if her Great Granda had been involved and was told that he had, and that he had served in Logistics. An explanation of what that entailed duly followed - he had to make sure everything was where it was needed, fuel, food, ammunition and so on. 'So basically he was a party-planner' my grand-daughter concluded. Some party."
Romantically speaking
GLASGOW'S Aye Write! book festival is taking place just now with Glasgow comedian Janey Godley speaking the other night about the books that had influenced her life. As she told her audience: "I was a voracious reader and so was ma maw. If she ran out of books, she'd send me up to a neighbour who also read a lot. I'd knock on her door and say, 'Ma maw says have you got any books? But she says she doesn't want any s**** about cowboys or romance'."
Having a fling
MANY folk are enjoying their Amazon Echos, little speakers where you ask Alexa to connect to music, answer questions, and tell you the weather forecast and jokes. Not everyone is a fan however. As a Lynn Anderson left as her review on Amazon: "Forget it - especially if you have a Scottish accent. You'll spend the whole time becoming increasingly frustrated, swearing at it, bawling at it, then trying to stop yourself hurling it right oot the windae! Meantime your neighbours are calling the Polis, thinking that someone is being murdurred upstairs. And they are right. It's that bloody Alexa."
Rub it in
A GLASGOW reader swears to us he overheard a young woman in a coffee shop tease her mother by asking: "So when I came along, what was it you really wanted, a boy or a girl?" but the mother simply replied: "Thinking back to when you were conceived all I really wanted was a back rub."
On the march
WHAT a sight that was, the huge pro-EU march in London. Many folk contrasted it with the miserable-looking Nigel Farage-inspired pro-Brexit march to London which has attracted just a couple of dozen folk. Pro-Brexit MP Kate Hoey tried to defend it by stating: "The March To Leave was never planned to be a mass march - 75 core marchers joined at various points by others - a symbolic march to hilight betrayal by a Remain Parliament of the referendum."
We liked the response of stand-up Carl Donnelly who told Kate: "This sounds like a comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe giving it the old, 'Yeah I only had seven people in tonight, but I actually think I prefer it when it’s quiet. It makes you perform it better'."
Student days
PRIME Minister Theresa May hasn't her problems to seek as the Brexit clock ticks down. Someone thinking back to their student days gives her the advice: "What you need to do is pull an all-nighter, cut and paste someone else’s Brexit off the internet, and slide it under the EU’s door with one minute to go."
Office talk
QUIET day in the office, so couldn't escape from a colleague who strolled over to interrupt and tell me: "Going to the inaugural meeting of the Impatient People Society next week. Can't wait."
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