Under the normal run of things, a pair of youngsters hurling a plastic bottle into the sea would be seen as a bad thing.
But when the twins involved are impossibly cute and they have filled said bottle with their young hopes and dreams and a treasure map it’s hard to be overly judgemental, even for a cynic like Coming Up.
There’s some added “awwwwww” to this tale because their bottle has washed up on the shore of a distant island and the young lads are, literally, bouncing with joy.
Read the whole story in Friday’s Courier.
And that’s not the only bottle-related tale we tell.
You can also find out about a Kinross-shire collector who’s putting her lifelong love of Chinese snuff bottles under the hammer the auctioneer’s kind which will make her money, obviously, rather than the workman’s kind, which will just break them.
And that’s not the only auction-related tale we tell.
You’ll also learn about the documents of a dentist-cum-spy from Fife whose missives home from the likes of Colditz are being sold off for a decent sum of cash.
And that’s not the only cash-related tale we tell.
Scottish ski-ing has enjoyed a multi-million pound lift from a spectacularly snowy winter. When the workers weren’t busy digging out the lifts from the snowdrifts, hundreds of thousands of people were darting across the snow.
And that’s not the only snow-related tale we tell.
if you want to see it (and for the sake of this extended riff, we hope you do). Much of the action in the greatest film of all time (according to a poll) is set in the snow. Find out what it is in Friday’s Courier or try our digital edition.