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Cameron - did you seriously put a lump of ice in your luggage and not expect it to melt?

Right they've put the parts of the column about BB and Cameron stepping through a six inch nail (already knew it had happened but having to drive ELEVEN miles afterwards? ) CLICK HERE - oh and I think the phrase "what a muppet" would've been more appropriate than pillock :P

Speaks about Jennifer Lopez pulling out of the re-make of Dallas and being happy about that but thinking she was good in Shall We Dance.

Also getting broadband and speaking about an e-amil he got about changing days - playstations, computers etc taking the place of going out and playing all day long.

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Just to keep it separate from the summary but the last point, personally I don't totally agree. Yes, of course computers and the like have made a big difference but I can definitely say around here kids/teenagers still go out and about a lot - he mentions that game "chap the door" and being scared of doing it... kids still do that here!! Ok, there is no way that they do it as much but for example I spent the whole day with my friends today and on the odd day off from work that is what I've been doing during the day time at least and the lucky younger ones who don't have to work seem to be out and about all the time!

They haven't put the latest column on the website so here goes.

The main bit is about BB and Nikki going back in so Pete should watch out for his sanity. How he wouldn't be surprised if Pete tried to walk. Says how humiliating it was for Glyn, as the head boy at school, to be punished like that on TV and how there's a "lovely innocence" about him. He isn't sure who he'd like to win.

Then in other news he speaks about the terror alert in the airports and how it was appropriate that the AIYF was last week because this is about everyone coming together. Reading everyone that the Beckham family are "on the wane" but he thinks they'll survive as a "celebrity couple" if nothing else. Very happy to hear about the encouragement to put local produce into school meal. And being "amazed" by the number of people who have come up while he's been in Aberdeen this week saying "foo's yer fit?" (how's your foot?) after reading it in last week's column!

This week they've put the column up all seperate and no longer have the "Cameron Stout" link at the top of the page so it's all together... how ruuuude!

Anyhow HERE is the main bit about BB (though was Pete not everyone's tip from the beginning?!).

The rest is about the swimming pools shutting in Aberdeen/shire due to no staff, (hang on till i find the paper...) Grease being at HMT reminding him of watching it in his youth and hearing about the town's first £1,000,000 new-build house being sold.

The main bit is about Russell Brand and Dermot O'Leary apparently having a rift between them and Dermot moving to BBC TV. He says lots seem to prefer Russell's presenting ways but he personally prefers Dermot's more laid-back approach to Russell's swearing and general madness. (agree totally!)

In other news, Selina Scott attacking reality TV, saying it's basically for people to enjoy watching other people being humiliated and that we've had an overdose of it. His "advice" to the newlywed Preston and Chantelle is that they should spent lest time in the celebrity world for their marriage to succeed and he hopes it all stays well. Speaking about a letter from a lady from London about the BBC series that showed just how hard work it is being a fisherman in the North sea with the conditions, lack of fish etc. GB following the USA in everyway health wise and now it is that the UK is following them in obesity levels.

Think that's about it.

I can't believe they missed out my bit about parking at the ARI - I will be on the phone in the morning

It's definitely not there although the page is pretty full in the way it's set out so they couldn't really fit anymore on.

They do have a huge picture of Dermot and Davina which could've been smaller I guess but there is always a big picture.

And Dermot is looking rather good too I have to say.

Sorry about the delay, I never did this on Monday and then kept forgetting - shall make this short.

Speaking about it being better to grow old gracefully after seeing the Charlie's Angels on an awards show. Prince William's girlfriend and how there has been a lot of speculation about them which he says can't be easy but that happened with lady Diana and she turned out to be a great "ambassador". The queen apparently being driven out of her wasps nest and he says he;s scared of them too (have said this too many times this summer... they're probably more scared of you than you are of them!! I've hidden the wasp spray at work, it's cruel.) Mentions the scheme in Aberdeen where they've put wee spy things in recycling boxes and not told people to make sure they were using them properly (it was the scandal of last week in the EE). Also about how the AIYF organisers have very deservedly been put up for an award to recognise what they've done in working with youngsters involved in the arts all over the world.

This week's column is a lovely article Cameron has written about his dad. In the paper there are photographs too which are so nice.


MEMORIES OF A GREAT DAD FLOOD BACK INTO MY MIND

Friendly, quiet, unassuming and with a great sense of humour.

These are some of the adjectives I've read many times over the past few days, in sympathy cards received after my dad's death.

My dad, John Stout, who was 69, suffered a brain haemorrhage five weeks ago and was flown by air ambulance from Orkney to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

After some recovery, dad was transferred back to hospital in Orkney where we enjoyed several days of great banter with him before he took a second haemorrhage.

I was with him when he suffered his second episode, just as we were having a laugh about him digging up his tatties.

It's an odd sensation at the moment because I'm not sure the fact he has gone has really hit me yet.

I often go over scenes and sequences in my mind -

of dad in the garden; dad out walking our collie dog, Sarge; and dad sitting at his drum kit playing in the dance band.

Memories come flooding back of wee things, like the sledge he made me when I was seven, and the sailing trips he used to take us on in the yacht he built himself.

Or of dad carrying my brother Julyan and me upstairs to bed in a "horseyback".

And it all brings a smile to my face and even sometimes an out-loud laugh.

Dad often said that if he became old and ill he didn't want to be a

bother to folk.

"Set me off in a boat out to the west," he would tell us.

"I'm not hanging around here being a nuisance."

And in his final few days I began to imagine how distraught he would have been if he regained consciousness and didn't recover fully to the father we knew and loved. His frustration would have been sad and unbearable - for him as well as for Mam and us.

He was a very active person and enjoyed a most busy and fulfilled retirement.

The truth is, he could barely have fitted one extra minute into those nine years.

He was involved with the sailing club and the RNLI, and he was a drum tutor with the Boys' Brigade and with the British Legion pipe band.

He and Mam shared duties in the garden - he in command of the extensive and bountiful vegetable garden and she tending to the flowers and trees. The night before dad fell ill, the pair of them were at a silver wedding celebration dancing like youths, and dad drumming in the dance band as he did most weekends.

The day he died was the eve of the day he and Mam met 45 years ago.

For the funeral, Mam organised some members of a jazz band dad used to play with to provide the music at the church.

Although it was a difficult day, the musicians' tribute to dad was very special indeed - and I would even say enjoyable.

Most of all, dad would have been chuffed. The whole service was fitting and even the burial seemed suitable.

The graveyard is out of town at the West Shore in Stromness. The sky was clear, there was a light breeze and a calm sea. How suitable for a seaman sailing west.

Taken from This Is Aberdeen

Touching column - I had a lump in my throat throughout.

God bless.

Suzanne

aww that's lovely

How very touching. That had me in tears.

a very touching column

I shall try and be careful how I say this...(so as not to offend anyone who has already expressed their views, that's not the intention)

Thing is, instead of putting , I would like to put a

That's because Cameron's tribute to his dad speaks to me of a life well lived, and a great love between him and his dad, and indeed the whole family. I know essentially it's a very sad time and I shouldnt even presume to know how people are/aren't coping, but the article is about life as well as death and the bit at the end (how suitable for a seaman sailing west...) is just beautiful.

So yes, a tear in the eye, but also a joyful smiley to say thank you for John's life and to celebrate what he obviously meant to so many people. Well written, Cameron.