Fairy nuff

NOT sure if this comes under the category of "every cloud has a silver lining" but Mary Andrews in Glassford, Lanarkshire, tells us: "Took the dog for a walk in Stonehouse Park. Ben, the dog, was off the lead. A wee boy about six or seven looked wary and asked if the dog would bite him. I said no, he was only a pup. The wee lad then told me he had lost a tooth. I asked if he had put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy. 'Naw', he said. 'My dad says that cause of Brexit that doesn’t happen any more'."

Sinking feeling

AND while on the subject of Brexit, after yesterday's University Boat Race, Andy Gilder muses: "The Boat Race as a Brexit metaphor - eighteen posh people seeing who can make something go backwards the fastest."

On the right track

OUR Diary stories about train trips to London reminds Sue Forsyth of boarding a Virgin train from London to Glasgow a few years ago where she was unable to take her seat as the coach she had a ticket for had been redesigned as a "comedy coach" with comedians on board publicising Virgin's sponsorship that year of the Glasgow Comedy Festival. Says Sue: "The train manager ushered me to a seat in the adjoining coach. I was unimpressed. Living in Glasgow you can witness comedy on a train any day of the week."

Model behaviour

YES the continuing hiccups in married life. Reader Sandy Lyall is a self-confessed car fanatic, and on a whim he phoned his local Audi garage to see if he could buy a toy model of his Audi A4 as he fancied having one on his office desk. The salesman said he would order one and phoned back a few days later when Sandy's wife answered the phone. Says Sandy: "The salesman telling her that the new Audi model I had ordered had arrived was greeted with near apoplexy as she told the salesman that I should never have ordered a £30,000 new car without consulting her."

A tip

AND talking of male drivers, a Glasgow reader heard a woman comment to her pals: "Someone should tell my husband that no one can hear him yelling driving tips at other drivers from inside our car."

Bunkered

GROWING old, continued. Says a reader from Stirling: "Having played in the opening game of the new golf season a week past on Saturday and a couple of rounds since, I have to admit that it is becoming easier to get the ball out of a bunker than getting me out after playing the shot."

Enbrace it

NEWS from America where Democratic candidate hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden has made a video to apologise for hugging women inappropriately in the past. A contact in the States, Todd Levin, remarks: "Sorry, but I don't buy this 'I give inappropriate hugs because I'm from another generation' stuff. My mom is Joe Biden's age and I can't recall a single time she ever hugged me."

Leathered

THE American-based WWE wrestling bouts are as popular as ever it seems, with Scot Drew McIntyre, originally from Prestwick, one of the rising stars. Drew’s signature high-flying kick, named the Claymore Kick, is well known to wrestling fans. We just liked Drew’s explanation in a wrestling magazine this week at to how it came about. Said Drew: “I was running to give a big boot, which is basically when you run at somebody and kick them in the face and you stay standing while you do it. Unfortunately I was wearing extremely tight leather pants which were so tight, as I raised my foot to his head, I had to kick up the other leg or I would have torn my crotch and I kept rotating around and landed on the back of my own head. That’s the day the Claymore was created."