Darley Woods
Old Darley is feeling rather well connected this week. Step forward Ayr Academy old boy David Miller.
He’s finally bowing out of his current role as transport and environment corr at BBC Scotland, after 26 years with the corporation.
Dapper Dave is to take the political shilling and become a top adviser to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
And being an old Prestwick girl, the seat of power is now firmly on the South Ayrshire coast.
Darley congratulates David and all the family still in Ayr. Sources say they are avid Darley readers! I am not really , well not at all really, on the equality bandwagon. Mrs Woods does her stuff and I do mine.
But last week the Cancer Research shop on Ayr High Street was advertising ladies skirts and dresses for a quid.
This week gents suits and jackets are a fiver. Where is the equality in that? Wild parties are being staged – in a street that last saw action when Jimmy Osmond was a lad.
It seems every time the parents are away, the youngsters have a ball in a house in very respectable Charles Drive in Troon. The bashes have been going on till 3am. Community Councillor Dawn Barr said: “The elderly there want an end to this.”
Sounds like an enjoyable knees- up! They have a way of telling it as it is at Troon Community Council.
And Erica Williamson has a fine way with words. She went beyond her usual gripe about sand in the South Beach car park by saying there was now a “slightly large inverted pimple” which had appeared. Darley sources put it in simpler terms - a “wee hole.” About 4.30pm on Whitletts Road on Saturday, a blonde in high heels hitched up her tight blue dress revealing a thong. She then proceeded to pull it down, squat and relieve her system in full view of all the motorists and bus passengers.
One passenger told me: “Everyone was staring at her and the cars could have crashed. She exposed her bum. ”
Well what does one expect... there was a race day ongoing sponsored by a downmarket English tabloid. He might carry the stench of our great bin war, but it’s great to see wheelie supremo Mike Newall still has taste.
Darley spies caught Mike shopping for his latest threads in Slater Menswear while clutching a copy of Her Majesty’s Ayrshire Post. How else would he stay in touch with his workforce? Toodle Pip!