PIGS trotters are back in the shopping baskets of many driven by encouragement from celebrity chefs.

Having tasted them in Germany, I’m not much of a fan, but according to sales stats, sales in some supermarkets are up by more than a third, along with other formerly unpopular cuts like pork cheeks.

Given that pigs ears and tails are being sold as dog treats, there can’t be much left – everyone must be going the whole hogg (Geddit?)!

Now all we have to do is get the celeb-chefs punting tripe, which I can tell you tastes just like chicken until you hear what it is!

The giant of fencing

I HEAR that the legendary manufacturer of post drivers, Jock Bryce, is celebrating 40 years of producing his own unique brand of post drivers – no doubt with a very large dram of his favourite A’Bunadh, from Aberlour.

Craggy auld Jock was telling me that he now exports his fencing equipment under the Bryce Suma brand name to 15 countries worldwide – which is not bad going for someone who started out with a spade and a mel!

Well done Jock on reaching this milestone – his wife and office guidance counsellor, Jennifer, must be either deaf or daft, or both!

Choirs hit the charity spot

THE FARMERS choirs continue to keep people old and young off the streets almost every Sunday and all to good effect.

Their weekly Sunday practices paid off recently at a charity event held in Uddingston Church, just outside Glasgow.

And every performance seems to get more professional and the sell-out audience agreed, raising £3716.04 in the process for the Glasgow Children’s Hospital, Motor Neurone Disease and McMillan Nurses.

The choirs will be presenting the monies raised at concerts over the next 15 months towards their two chosen charities, MND and MacMillan Nurses, in February, 2019, at another charity ‘do’.

Both the male and females choirs also sang at the Queens Nurses Award Ceremony, last week, when 20 community nurses were awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse, marking the first time the honour has been made in Scotland for almost 50 years.

This had particular relevance to the choir as one of its members, Kelvin Frew, was one of those presented with the award at The Hub, in Edinburgh.