In the tension of Hampden on Scottish Cup final day, anything goes.
Who can allow for serious injury to any player? Who can say which players will hit form and which won't (writes Gordon Gray)
And with two attacking teams like Dundee and Rangers, which defence
There was a surprise in store for many Dundonians yesterday when they were awakened by the unfamiliar sound of bins being emptied in their street.
For while for most people yesterday was the last opportunity for relaxation before a return to work in the wake of the excesses
Fifty firemen were hoisted 100 feet on to the blazing oil rig Ocean Odyssey at Dundee's Harbour yesterday and battled for several hours through acrid black smoke to put out the flames - pumping thousands of gallons of water from the Tay.
Tayside
Dundee's long-awaited £45,000,000 Waterfront Development was launched yesterday with champagne and the promise of 1000 permanent jobs.
The official launch was performed by Scottish Industry Minister Ian Lang, who broke a bottle of champagne on the
Pray conversation
May never be 'non-event'
As Information Technology
Floods with intent
Attempted business calls
(even with Smart Phones)
Can drive to sheer distraction
Lowering language tones
"We ARE very busy
Thank you for holding the line
Your call IS valuable to us"
(But it's wasting precious time)
"Press 1, 2 or 3 (instructs automation)
(in welcomed surprise)
"Or 4 - without hesitation
To connect with one who'll advise"
Information Technology
Also 'Heads' the dining-table
Diners intent on 'surfing-the-net'
Ready - willing - and able
Email and Twitter
Holds attention
With Facebook and Selfies
(I dare to mention)
Personal eye contact - short and sweet
Texting and Tweeting as they eat
In conversation kill
Revived with outbursts of "wicked" "cool" and "brill"
However, for thee and me
Information Technology is a necessity
I remember one winter in Douglas when we had no coal for our fire, my Mum sent me over to Douglas School which was just being built (so I would have been about 6 or 7 years old) to collect some of the wood off cuts. A joiner was working late, (I remember that it was very dark) and took pity on me and filled a sack with logs and carried it over to my house for me. My Mum, my three siblings and my self (my Dad was not around) had a warm house and hot water for some nights after that and we will always be grateful to that unknown joiner.
I was born in the front bedroom at 1, Craighill Place in 1946. My first school was the hutty at the bottom of Pitarlie Road, them went to the Rainbow, had great times playing and dancing in the backies where it was all tarmacked, somebody would put a record player on their window and we would jive away, even Mum's would join in, great days and not a care in the world.