Catch of the day in our working-week ending Courier is a 16.5 tonne, 40-ft whopper.
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That’s right, rub your eyes in disbelief all you like but they (your eyes that is) aren’t deceiving you.
In Friday’s Courier we reflect on the new exhibition recounting the amazing capture of the Great Tay Whale.
A phenomenal story, which caught the imagination of the nation back in the late 19th Century.
I could try and sum it up but Dundee poet William McGonagall does it so much better.
“So the monster whale did sport and play
Among the innocent little fishes in the beautiful Tay.”
They don’t make them like that any more.
Really don’t.
Really, really don’t.
And possibly shouldn’t have done in the first place, but never mind.
Maritime lovers, whale-haters, hunting-types. All will love our Friday coverage.
Meanwhile, THWACK.
That, as you very well know, is the sound of a driver making sweet, sweet contact with a golf ball. I like a good onomatopoeia, me.
Anyway, it is a noise visitors to Gleneagles have been hearing a lot of this week. And there’ll be even more of it once the Ryder Cup proper swings into action on Friday.
Our men are all in place and it is their very great pleasure and indeed not inconsiderable privilege to bring you all the very latest.
You may remember that, back in the dim and distant past (a week ago) we had a referendum to settle once and for all the question of our future independence. Or dependence. Something like that anyway.
Well it would seem there may have been some awful lash-up with the postal votes. The Courier investigates.
In other news Tony Blair has picked up a brand new accolade. As a gay icon, no less. He is delighted to think it will be his legacy. Perhaps others may remember him for other things, but you can make up your own mind on perusing the pages of the Courier.
Friday is, without a shadow of a doubt, right up there as one of the best days of the week. Comfortably within the top seven anyway. Please do make it all it can be by enjoying it in the exceptionally refined company of the Courier. If paper isn’t for you, why not try our digital edition?