Paddy field of love’s young dream could offer sage advice

Old moral tale could be instructional for councillors now

Padanaram has never been somewhere that’s enjoyed much attention.

Mind you, the one-side-of-the-road village between Forfar and Kirriemuir has always been a great source of entertainment, as strangers try to get their tongue around the Sunday name of the place we all know and love as simply Paddy.

It is right up there in the pantheon of grand Scottish places along with the likes of Ecclefechan, Strathaven, Milngavie and even its Angus neebor of Friockheim.

However, humble Paddy is back on everyone’s lips after the new team with their grip on the Angus Council tiller decided to reopen the can of worms that is local recycling.

The outcome of their green scheming should be known by September, with maybe a reprieve for Monifieth and no cut to operating hours in other local burghs.

Future Forfar and Kirriemuir provision is also back up in the air after the dream of building a Padanaram super dump was binned last year.

And with its possible return to the council drawing board, it can be exclusively revealed Paddy’s littleknown claim to fame within the delicate domain of safe sex.

Always a tiptoe topic for parents, Paddy’s position between the two Angus burghs was ingeniously used by a Kirrie dad to get round the tricky birds and bees talk, with the use of some sage advice to quell his teenage son’s raging hormones.

The gist of the paternal guidance to the young Romeo was that while the loon might, metaphorically speaking, get on the bus with a lass in Forfar and want to go all the way to Kirrie – perhaps transportation disembarkation part way along the route would be the preferable course of action.

There might also be a valuable moral for Angus councillors in there too, since it was the premature plan application for the supersite that got them in all sorts of trouble last time round.

So, elected members, instead of rushing headlong into a decision you might regret, consider first all of the consequences.

And perhaps, ahem, get aff the bus at Paddy…

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Councillors might want to slow down and carefully consider plans for a super dump at Padanaram.