There doesn’t seem to have been too much work done on Tayside and Fife this weekend, judging by the stories filling your sun-kissed Monday Courier.
Rather than putting their shoulders to the wheel and cranking up the output, the good denizens of Courier Country seem, instead, to have been having FUN.
Lest it be surmised that Coming Up is in any way bitter that it was stuck in front of a computer screen on a sun-drenched Sunday, we hasten to point out we’ve been living the dream through other people’s words and pictures.
And now you can too. Thus:Item 1 Athletes donned their best running whites and took to the sands of St Andrews to re-create iconic scenes from Chariots of Fire. Item 2 Villagers donned military uniform and prisoner garb to show what the arrival of Nazis in their community would have been like 70 years ago. Item 3 Archaeology boffins scoured the countryside around Bannockburn to find out exactly where Robert the Bruce gave the English a sound thrashing seven centuries ago. Item 4 Musclebound man mountains heaved, tossed and pulled their way through the opening salvos of the local Highland Games circuit, watched by cheering crowds in Blackford and Markinch. Item 5 The trams started running in Edinburgh and our reporter was there to have a shot.All of these events are covered so fully in poetic words and stunning pictures that even though Coming Up didn’t once manage to emerge, blinking, into the sunlight over the last 48 hours, we feel as if we were at each and every one.
We can only urge you to share that feeling by snapping up a copy of Monday’s Courier. You can even try our digital edition if you want to feel Coming Up’s full weekend experience and not even leave your sofa.