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PREMIUM Reader Scott Williamson says it’s debatable whether he would want to take a stroll down this path. Family fun HOW does a chap explain to curious dog walkers strolling past his house that there is an entirely reasonable explanation why a masked man, wearing a buxomly stuffed bra, is visible through his front room window? Donald Munro – who lives in the house, and also happened to be the fellow in the mask (and bra) – tells the Diary that he was trying on a costume for his part in a live Zoom performance of Family, a trio of quirky monologues by Scottish playwright Gowan Calde...

PREMIUM Doug Maughan spotted this shop front in Leh, Ladakh. “It appears to be a messy joint,” he notes. THE Diary was sad to hear of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death. He was an often irascible, yet eminently relatable chap. Reader Stuart Swanston recalls that when Prince Philip was Chancellor of Edinburgh University in the 1970s he opened a new building in the Zoology Department. After unveiling a plaque he was shown round the labs, where he noticed a molecular biologist who, being an ardent republican, had boycotted the opening ceremony. This fellow was bent over a microscope, tweeze...

PREMIUM DUMBARTON reader John Sim noticed this sign on a local fence. Clearly some forms of discrimination are acceptable, even in our increasingly tolerant society. A jagged edge GLASGOW crime writer Graeme Macrae Burnet is a talented page scribbler, though he is now itching to prove that he also has exceptional entrepreneurial skills at his disposal. “I'm thinking of opening a pub called The Vaccinated Arms,” he reveals. Lost in translation CELEBRITY hairdresser Denise McAdam, who is Scottish though based in London, has been volunteering at a vaccine centre where she asked a chap:...

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PREMIUM Maurice Bruce spotted this house, which he believes could use a lick of paint. Or better yet, some weapons-grade face cream Sign of class IAN Pattison, the legendary creator of Rab C Nesbitt, has been recalling one of his personal heroes, Liverpool footballer Ian St John, who died this week. “As a kid I sent my autograph book to him at Liverpool, hoping for his signature,” says Ian. “About a week later the book arrives back in an envelope reeking of wintergreen. He'd passed the book round the entire dressing room and had them all sign. Roger Hunt, Ian Callaghan, Ron Yeats, Chr...