Wombling wonders
PUNK rock, as music fans will recall, was a 1970s movement led by snotty teens with spiky hair.
Sometimes it was difficult to ascertain which was most green: the colour of their dyed hair or the goo drooling from their noses.
The grotty wee tykes also sported more safety pins than your average cloth nappy, though with slightly less elan.
Punks weren’t the only notable social movement of the seventies. Who can forget the Wombles?
Unlike the punks they were clean-living, lovable and always carried a handkerchief to wipe a dripping proboscis.
Yet the Diary can now reveal that punks and Wombles had much in common.
Speaking on The Daily Reckless Radio Show, Scottish pop icon Duglas T Stewart of BMX Bandits admits to being a huge fan of the records released by the Wombles.
“I think they’re incredible,” he enthuses, further explaining that one of the mightiest New York punk bands, The Ramones, agreed with this assessment.
“When The Ramones first came to the UK,” he says, “one of my friends took them around some record shops. And they were looking for Bay City Rollers records and Wombles records.”
That’s a step too far, harrumphs the Diary. Wombles records are tasteful, tuneful and almost high art.
But the Bay City Rollers?
Worse than the gunk dripping from a punk rocker’s nose…
Sounding off
MUSIC continued.
Excellent advice from reader Nicola Marshall: “When I’m depressed I sing a happy little song. Then I realise my voice is worse than my problems.”
Not well-versed
WE mentioned Victorian writer Rudyard Kipling is not as well known as he once was.
Reader Andy Jarvis explains why this might be the case: “At school I struggled to understand the poetry of Kipling,” he confides. “I found it ruddy 'ard.”
Bright idea
A FEW days ago the Northern Lights illuminated the Scottish sky, and the entire nation was in awe.
Well, perhaps not everybody…
Gazing out her window at the wondrous spectacle, reader Heather Wilson called to her husband: “Quick! Or you’ll miss it.”
From behind his newspaper hubby replied: “Would you film it for me on your mobile? I’ll watch the highlights later.”
Posh pummelling
IN a city centre boozer reader Gary Whitten overheard a bloke say to his pal: “I was once beaten up by a guy from Newton Mearns.”
“That’s like saying you broke a fingernail playing chess,” snorted his pal.
Picture this
“PEOPLE attend art school because the classes are a big draw,” notes reader Tony Simpson.
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