The Courier’s Coming Up is intimately familiar with sheds.
As a youngster, there was a big black one with a sliding door at the end of the garden. A padlocked sliding door. That bolted from the inside. That only a grown man could enter.
Why would it be padlocked, our inquiring young mind wondered. What on earth was stored in there? How could a grown man spend hours in there, ignoring the plaintive pleas of our tortured curiosity?
It would seem there could be all manner of things letters from a lost love, a secret phone to undertake illicit affairs or even a TV to be enjoyed away from prying eyes.
That’s all according to a survey on shed use we love surveys and we’ll share this one with you in Tuesday’s Courier.*
What else have we got in a thoroughly packed paper?
We sent our man to take the first Monday morning flight from Dundee to Stansted. Why? So you didn’t have to (you’ve missed it anyway unless you were one of the 14 passengers).
You can share his fun-filled adventure mile by airborne mile.
We rate the performance of Police Scotland on the anniversary of its creation and, as work begins on their construction, we have the latest row over the A9 average speed cameras.
We also speak to the operators of an Angus foodbank who are having to turn undesirables away and were in court to hear about an 18th birthday which went very wrong indeed.
The Courier is far too serious to carry an April Fools story, but we do round up some of the best through the ages and the worst which were sent to us this year.
And in sport, we pick up the fall-out from Sunday’s thrilling ice hockey clash and begin the countdown to Raith Rovers Ramsden’s Cup final.
For all this and so much more see Tuesday’s Courier or try our digital edition.
*Eventually Coming Up got its own shed – we use it to gather our thoughts in perfect darkness, supping from the purple tin, preparing to do this all over again the next day.