OK, we are in a heatwave and the TV keeps telling us to slap on the sunscreen.
OK, we are in a heatwave and the TV keeps telling us to slap on the sunscreen.
When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s (no doubt other folk will agree) that in those days we had no skin creams to protect us, no news readers to tell us to take care or wear a hat. We just enjoyed the sun.
Not a lot of folk suffered from the sun back then and if you did (very rarely) your Granny would rub your back with natural yogurt and you were as right as rain in no time. Today, you're a hospital case.
I also remember in the 50s 60s when we left school for the summer holidays. We seemed to have a heatwave all through the summer. Then we'd return to school and the heatwave would continue, all with no complaints.
So what's all the panic today when we have other things to worry about?
K, Via e-mail
Rock show remedy
AT the AC/DC gig on Tuesday night I was unable due to an attack of vertigo to take my seat in the upper level of the BT stand. I would like to thank first of all the lady steward (sorry I didn't get your name) for all her help and understanding.
Thankfully she managed to get our seats swapped with people on the lower level, who I would also like to thank. It really made my night and let me enjoy what was a truly brilliant gig. Cheers folks.
JACQUI, Via e-mail
Prison priorities
IT surely can be nothing but political spite which is keeping Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs in prison. He is 78, cannot eat, speak or walk due to a series of strokes, and is currently suffering from a broken hip.
When you read about the rapists, murderers and violent thugs who are let out of prison early only to reoffend, you have to wonder who Jack Straw thinks he is protecting by keeping this elderly robber in prison.
Presumably, had Biggs done his thieving in the City wearing a shirt and tie, ruining the retirement plans of tens of thousands of people, he would now be called Lord Biggs and would be sitting in the House of Lords enjoying a well-funded life on his ill-gotten gains.
BOB DUNNING, Via e-mail
Can council tell us...
I SUSPECT a fair few of the people with outstanding council tax bills are employed by Glasgow City Council - what percentage of them are in arrears, and will their wages be arrested or will they be fined and dismissed for non-payment?
IAIN, Milngavie
Merchant City park
IF Selfridges don't have the wit or the cash to develop in the Merchant City (Selfridges' site to be turned into a car park, July 1), then surely we can find a more imaginative use for the space.
As it is, the Merchant City is crying out for a park, somewhere nice and green to sit, with perhaps a stage for outdoor performances or covered stalls for an open air market.
When all we hear about is the council trying to keep cars out of the city centre, it seems self-defeating to build yet another car park.
C'mon planners, let's have some vision for this most historic part of Glasgow.
PETER KELLY, Merchant City
Tied-up in Glasgow
IT was great to see the liner Crown Princess moored at Greenock (Superliner cruises up the Clyde, July 1). It's just a shame that due to all the new bridges, and a lack of dredging, that the liner couldn't have tied up in the heart of Glasgow. Now that would have been something to celebrate.
MARY KERR, Posted online
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HOT TOPIC: Utility companies must work together
IT would help a lot if utility companies worked together and agreed to do their works at the same time.
We see it on the M8 all the time - lanes get closed for months for resurfacing, then a few weeks after the work is done the traffic cones are back because there is some other job the companies have to do. Madness.
OPENMIND, Glasgow
45mins to travel a mile
THE last time I was in Glasgow I was stuck on the Broomielaw for more than 45 minutes trying to cover less than a mile and 30 minutes going back to the M8.
My advice is: it is never going to get better, so move to the Borders, where rush hour here is three sheep and a tractor.
CAINE, Jedburgh (ex weegie)
Hold firms to account
WHAT we need is far better coordination of our utility companies, where they are potentially forced to work in partnership, if it means the same roads do not have to be dug up several times for various works.
Utility companies may all compete with each other over the services they provide Joe Public, but if it is us who fund them - directly and through the Government - they should be held to book when they do a shoddy job, take longer than they should, or cause excessive disruption.
PEOPLE POWER, Glasgow
Don't dig escape routes
WHEN there is an alternative route for roadworks, it should not be dug up at the same time.
ALESSANDRO, Airdrie
Trains beat roadworks
LET the train take the strain. Public transport is the only way forward.
CRAIGR, Glasgow
Hole lot of questions
I TRIED to be courteous when I asked my council leader why the road outside her house, in a quiet side street, was resurfaced when a busy bus route outside a school was riddled with potholes. She said it helped to slow the traffic. We can't win.
WILD WADI, Kirkintilloch
It's down to neglect
THE utility companies seem to be getting blamed in this article for the state of the roads but, sadly, a lot of the roads in the East End are simply disintegrating due to sheer neglect.
