Despite the best efforts of some of those in power at home and abroad, it seems that every day something funny happens on the streets and in the homes of Scotland. And, fortunately for us, readers of The Herald – Glasgow’s favourite newspaper – are famous for taking the time to jot down these tales and send them into the paper’s daily Diary column.
They might be stories about the gems that the younger generation are forever coming out with, the gaffes of poli-ticians, the shenanigans of Scottish football, the tribulations of trying to grow old gracefully or the wise-cracking ripostes of rocky relationships. One thing is for sure, whatever the topic, if something makes you smile then it will end up in The Diary.
And here we have gathered together the best of readers’ stories from 2018 so that – hopefully! – we can help the smiles continue.