Not just for ironing

“I was amused at the recent item about growing old,” says Reg Mulheron of Tayport. “When I was a younger man, I remember my father was always falling asleep in his chair. When I mentioned it to him, he said that I would be like that too one day.

“The time is now! I find myself falling asleep quite a lot these days. It was annoying to me back then because I felt that it was wasting hours in the day.

“I like to read The Courier every day, front page to last page and I was finding that it was taking me longer and longer because I kept falling asleep – just like my father.

“However, I have come up with a solution. I put up my late wife’s ironing board and spread the newspaper out on it. As I have to stand up to read the pages, I don’t get the chance to nod off at all and I find I get through the paper much quicker.

“I am now also using the ironing board to lean on while I write letters and it has become part of the furniture in the living-room.”

“This photograph of my wife’s grandfather William Ferguson and his family was found in our family album,” says Edward Thomson of Glamis. “We know he is the driver and was known at some point as a gardener in Blairs Road, Letham, Angus. He also dealt...