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OK, here it is with the manufacturer's name restored, and also its history.

The Rotary Club in Harpenden, a neighbouring town, resurrected their "Classics on the Common" fundraiser last week. An informal classic car show, they had everything from a 1923 Model T Ford to current day Ferraris and Lambos. I'll be gobsmacked if anyone knows the one below. I've taken the maker's name off it, and I don't think the badges will help. Will reveal all in a day or two, but if you are desperate you can always look up the reg no at the DVLA.

Yes, I know. It won't be We have gone back to the Saturday afternoon ban on showing live games.

I did wonder if STFU was Dougal under a new name

Don't read it then

There is nothing to stop the sole owners of the concert company - Morrison and Dalgarno - giving their profits to the football club. There is an awful lot to stop two directors of the football club using its assets to pay off the debts of another, separate company which they happen to own.

In normal operations in the music business, it's the promoter who carries the risk. The artists get paid and the venue gets paid, and the promoter is left with the bottom line - profit or loss. If the shows did lose £1M, and the football club (FC) and the Concert Company (CoCo) are really separate, then it may just be that the FC agrees not to be paid, in which case it doesn't lose anything more than the costs of the usual venue services, such as security, catering, etc, which it may well have paid for. However, a question is whether the CoCo borrowed a lot of money beforehand to stage the concerts, or if it now owes money to the artists, staging company, etc. In other words, are there other creditors seeking payment? My wife and I are not lawyers, but we think that if the FC and the CoCo are indeed completely separate - not parent/subsidiary or two subsidiaries of a common parent - then assets of the FC cannot be used to pay off the debts of the CoCo - unless the owners (shareholders) of the FC had beforehand approved a formal agreement that FC assets could be used in that way. If that had happened, then I think we would surely know about it, because the shareholders - including the Supporters Trust - should have had to vote on it. (Interesting related question - does the current Board of the FC control more than 50% of the shareholder voting rights?) The next CoCo accounts will be filed by the end of June next year, and the FC accounts covering July 2022 won't be filed until Feb 2024. So I tend to agree with caleyboy - in the absence of further information, there's no point in speculating.

Credibility and accuracy.

That's Jim Lynas? Most flattering photo of him I have ever seen. I remember him as being... er... craggier

Caley, early 70s. I think that's the League Cup - the others (League Trophy, Q Cup, and North Cup) are bigger, and the Inverness Cup wasn't running at the time. So, from a quick look at the records, I'd say 1971-72. Caley Secretary Neil Smith with the dark coat on the left, long time player and official "Porridge" Mackintosh with the dark coat on the right. Chic Allan to the right of Neil Smith. Must have been one of the last things he won, because he tragically died by falling off a hotel room balcony in 1972. Dave Bennett behind Chic Allan? George Stapledon and Bobby Noble middle of second row. Dave Johnston second row to the left of Porridge. Possibly Freddie Neild back left behind Dave J. Who the two holding the trophy are I don't know. Is the one on the left Donald Park?

Loganair fly between London City and Dundee, but I have no idea of the schedule or prices.

I think that we will see the same maddening inconsistency that we have seen in recent seasons. We may well reach the playoffs, but won't win the league.

I am sure that many of us have the DVD of the full match and the season. Last time I watched the final I still got very nervous during the second half

OK, here's a more up-to-date view.

Pre-season friendly. Or progressive safety footwear Yes, I too googled it, before working it out.

Another one that should be easy if you know this place. Although this was taken by my Dad, in 1948 ....

Aha, gotcha! Putting "lavender" into the search terms was the key. The Walled Garden at Gordon Castle, Fochabers. And the Bow Fiddle Rock at Portknockie.

Took just a few seconds to find the rock, but haven't found the house yet. Coffee, hmmm... let's look for a place called Blue Mountain

It is indeed. I had never been there either, until the start of this month. I'll bet you now have plenty of pictures of flowers - we have! And IIRC, they said that the first whisky for sale from the estate distillery was scheduled to be next year.

Easy one if you've been there.

I'm thinking that that could be another "centre of Scotland" in the background of the photo?

Somewhere pretty central, I think

Looks a wee bit different on Google Maps. The lines about art in what I thought were a funny script start off "Art is the Flower - Life is the Green Leaf.". This is a quote by Charles Rennie Mackintosh - https://libquotes.com/charles-rennie-mackintosh/quote/lbw6u1j . The red and green things down the edges of the board, that I thought might be chili peppers, are presumably Mackintosh roses, and the funny-looking script is reminiscent of the fonts associated with him. Annoyingly, I can't read or find the name of the cottage, and I can't find any actual connection with CRM.

Ah! I was going to guess Aviemore area. But I know where Laurence used to be - may even have bought a book or two from him - so I'll have a closer look on Monday.

Nope, me neither. Odd - large house, but corrugated iron roof. Built-up area - pavement, and services under the pavement. Is that a large vertical sign at the right-hand end of the house? Under magification, it looks like some kind of stylised script - maybe the alphabet we use, but possibly Hebrew or further east, a Runic script, or even something invented by Tolkien. Very little on each line - is it a list of names? Looks like a pattern of red and green things down each side - can't make them out - some sort of gourd or chili pepper? Go on - tell me how wrong I am