Padanaram has never been somewhere that’s enjoyed much attention.
Mind you, the one-side-of-the-road village between Forfar and Kirriemuir has always been a great source of entertainment as strangers try to get their tongue around the Sunday name of the place we all know and love as simply Paddy.
Right up there in the pantheon of grand Scottish places along with the likes of Ecclefechan, Strathaven, Milngavie, and even its Angus neebor of Friockheim.
But humble Paddy is back on everyone’s lips after the new team with their grip on the Angus Council tiller decided to re-open the can of worms that is local recycling.
The outcome of their green scheming should be known by September, but hopes have been raised of a reversal in fortune for the death-knelled Monifieth dump and a chance that skip site operating hours elsewhere might not be cut.
Future Forfar and Kirriemuir provision is also back up in the air after the dream of building a ‘super-dump’ at the half-way house village were benched last year.
And, with its possible return to the council drawing board, can be exclusively revealed Paddy’s little-known claim to fame within the delicate domain of safe sex.
Always a tippy-toe topic for parents, Paddy’s position between the two Angus burghs was ingeniously used by a Kirrie dad to get round the tricky birds and bees talk with the use of some sage advice to quell his teenage son’s raging hormones.
The gist of the paternal guidance to the young Romeo was that while the loon might, metaphorically speaking, get on the bus with a lass in Forfar and want to go all the way to Kirrie – perhaps transportation disembarkation part way along the route would be the preferable course of action.
There might also be a valuable moral for Angus councillors in there too, since it was the premature plan application for the super-site that got them in all sorts of trouble last time round.
So, elected members, instead of rushing headlong into a decision you might regret, consider first all of the consequences.
And perhaps, ahem, get aff the bus at Paddy…..
