Pal’s brandy plan badly backfired!

In 1976, my wife and I and two friends enjoyed a holiday in the former Yugoslavia.

It was wonderful, full of happy memories – and one rather comical one.

On the advice of another English holidaymaker, I bought a bottle of the local plum brandy.

However, upon trying it, I thought it not for me.

I told a fellow worker about this when I returned home and he offered to buy it from me.

I asked why and he told me his father-in-law came every Sunday, went straight for his drinks cabinet and helped himself to a large glass of brandy.

He hoped that if the plum brandy wasn’t very nice, it would cure his father-in-law of his unwelcome habit.

Next Sunday, he visited and, as usual, made straight for the brandy, taking a big swig before remarking: “By lad, that was great! Where did you get it from?”

Not what my friend had hoped for! MANY congratulations, Glasgow, on your brilliant showpiece at the opening of the Commonwealth Games.

Scottish talent at its best. A great production.

But oh, Rod Stewart. To use an old theatrical phrase: “Don’t ring us – we’ll ring you!” I DISAGREE with expats being allowed to vote in the forthcoming Scottish independence referendum.

If you no longer live in a particular country, then surely you lose the right to decide what goes on there?

Moving away but still keeping the vote seems to me like having your cake and eating it.

I AGREE with the calls for expats to be given a vote in the independence referendum.

However, I also say that residents in England, Wales and Northern Ireland should be given the vote too.

I am confident the vote would be Yes, if for no other reason that the taxpayers in the rest of the UK may finally relieve themselves of the burden to support the profligate Scottish Government.