ENTERTAINING children during school holidays - a Glasgow reader tells us he kept his six-year-old amused with painting. Hours later the lad came into the room with his picture, demanding to know why it was in the kitchen bin. Dad is pleased with his quick-thinking reply: "It was too good. I didn't want your sisters to be jealous."

WE bring up the lights on our cinema shouts stories, but leave with a celebrity version as Kenneth Thomson recalls: "As a young journalist I was at the Odeon cinema with my friend the late Arthur Montford to see the film Follow The Sun about the great Ben Hogan. At one stage Hogan was about to play a seemingly impossible shot across a lagoon. Of course Hogan hit the impossible shot and Arthur jumped out of his seat and, arms stretched, shouted, 'Fabulous shot! ' A sea of faces turned to look at the impulsive commentator - not realising they were witnessing the first public effort of the future much-loved Scottish Television sports journalist."

NEWS from Australia where the state of New South Wales is banning greyhound racing from next year due to claims of cruelty. It reminds us of the reader who has a greyhound - they make great pets - who can't resist, when people stop him in the park and ask: "Have you ever raced it?", of replying: "No, I'm not fit enough at my age."

DIFFERENT views on Tory MP Michael Gove being eliminated in the contest for next Tory leader and Prime Minister. Says writer Irvine Welsh: "How bad do you have t be when you deliver a referendum victory and even Tory MPs don't like you?"

However Mark Brierley ?had the comforting words: "Still at least Gove can comfort himself with knowing he has the support of more MPs than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn."

NOW the vote for new party leader will go out to the members of the Tory Party. As one of them observed: "It feels great to be part of an exclusive 0.2% of the population choosing the next Prime Minister - but not sure this is the ideal system."

OUR pictures of angry, but funny, dog poo notices reminds John Crawford: "In East Ayrshire some communities wouldn’t accept that bagged dog poo could be put in any litter bin (costing around £70) and petitioned their local councillors to have dedicated dog waste bins (costing around £175) instead. When a dog waste bin was damaged and had to be removed, people still left their wee bags of dog poo on the ground where the bin had been, obviously assuming the ‘cooncil’ would be along to collect it."

OUR tales of mistaken identities reminds Andy Minellas from Aberdeen: "Years ago in Singapore, our kids' favourite game in the swimming pool was Marco Polo where I closed my eyes and hunted for them shouting "Marco" to which they responded "Polo".

"One evening the pool was deserted so it seemed a perfect opportunity to play. However unbeknown to me a Chinese lady had entered the pool whilst my peepers were closed and during the course of the game I managed to come in contact with her upper echelons. Apologies all round, but my Mandarin wasn't up to much and her Doric was non-existent."

VINCENT Franklin tells us: "Had a wig fitting today. It transformed me.

"I went from looking like a bald man, to looking like a bald man in a wig."