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Doug Maughan spotted this restaurant in Singapore which appears to be boasting, in a topsy-turvy fashion, about the quality of its cuisine.
Future perfect A SOUTH Ayrshire reader by the name of Auld Sanny admits that the future of motoring has him worried. “What should you do when your computerised self-driving car mows down a pedestrian?” he asks. “Do you just switch it off, switch it back on again, and continue on your way?” It’s a tricky situation. Though having jumped into our time machine and taken a jaunt into the future to pick up the updated version of the Highway Code, the Diary is delighted to confirm the correct protocol.
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Slipped disc WE’VE been reminiscing about the late singer Sydney Devine, who was hugely popular in Scotland, yet never took himself too seriously, and always enjoyed a joke at his own expense. Reader Stanley Milton says: “I remember it being said of Sydney that he didn’t release records, they escaped.” Calendar chaos THE Diary’s readers are usually sharp as tacks, specifically those tacks that find their way onto a bare foot when one is stumbling around in search of the bathroom at two in the morning. Unfortunately lockdown has mind-mushing properties which can affect even the most astute of our correspondents.
Woodwind windup PERUSING his Herald this week, former MP Sir Brian Donohoe stumbled across a headline that left him bewildered, as he read in bold typeface: Lennox reveals dream of playing the flute. “Even if he does play it, he still won’t get the manager’s job at Ibrox,” says Sir Brian. We hate to point out that the Lennox in question is pop star Annie, not Celtic legend Bobby. Stories are always more fun minus facts.
What a card A PLAYFUL father gets in touch to reveal that his children received a new game for Christmas. The rules dictate that each person takes a turn at placing a card on their forehead before attempting to discover what’s written there by asking the other players questions.
I M aware that, in the grand ghastly scheme of things these days, not receiving Christmas cards from family and friends to most people is of no great importance and nothing really to get upset about, but as I have been a widow for more than 10 years and live alone. these little things just make a bad situation seem worse still. Four of my long-term friends from North and South Lanarkshire posted Christmas cards to me around two weeks ago. My sister and niece in Canada mailed theirs at the beginning of December and my son, who lives in Baden Wurtemberg in Germany, posted his on December 8. I have, as yet, received none of them. My son also ordered, on the same date, a present online to be delivered to me and was told it was guaranteed to be received before the 24th. The company has now told him it cannot honour its original guarantee.
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