Lorne Jackson

A light-hearted Herald Diary column collects golf-related song suggestions and a series of reader jokes. The entries poke fun at Meta’s camera-equipped spectacles, poets and birthday-card writing, maths teaching, falling asleep while watching Netflix, misunderstandings about butter chicken, French spelling and a carpentry class.

A humorous Herald diary column features jokes and reader anecdotes about Glasgow’s Duke of Wellington statue and its famous traffic cone, an unexpectedly small state-pension increase received by an Ayr woman, a whisky competition, pun-based names and song suggestions, a dictionary definition of “trumpery,” and a joke about the supposed Chinese inventor of the telephoto lens. The column also invites readers to submit stories and confirms it appears online twice weekly and in Saturday’s print edition.

A humorous Herald Diary column jokes about Andy Burnham’s prominent eyelashes and compares them with Denis Healey’s eyebrows. It then presents reader-submitted anecdotes about a teenager aspiring to become a recluse, a Scottish pupil objecting to the English association with castles, amusing comments overheard on a Glasgow train, and a family’s reflections on life before the internet.