U.K.: There's an old mill by the stream . .

EDINBURGH, Scotland (Edinburgh Evening News), June 12, 2008: By JOHN GIBSON ON your Mark. Until recently Mark Gardner was selling cars. Top of the range of course. Nothing less than Mercedes-Benz, to high rollers at their Newbridge outlet in West Lothian. Previously he was involved backstage on the esplanade during the Tattoo and he had much to do with the day-to-day running of Prestonfield House. His departure from the hotel was as speedy as it was surprising. Life goes on and Gardner has, as they say, landed on his feet. Hit the ground running. Down by the riverside in a Musselburgh backwater owner/chef Steve Adair has big ideas for the Glasshouse restaurant and offshoots on the site of an old mill. Says Mr G, the newly-appointed general manager charged with putting a lot of it together: "The potential here is not just tremendous, it's stunning. Provided Steve and the local authority can get their heads together, the Glasshouse can only be great for Musselburgh." Nobody listens It says here that British men top the depression league. The British Association of Counselling and Physiotherapy's study of mental illness in six European countries found us lot the biggest down-in-the-mouths, afflicted by major depression and panic syndrome. Men are less able to talk about their problems than women, they've established. I talk about my problems all the time in here but nobody listens. Just one of my multifarious ailments, and they are so many, they now want me to contribute a regular column in The Lancet. Senior moment A doyen of Edinburgh's pub trade, Gerry D'Agostino, ever ready to gab, as "seniors" are wont to gab, about golf or the well-being of his chums and himself, is saying: "I've never forgotten Peter Williamson telling me 'if you're over 60 and you wake up with no pain, you're dead.'" Peter, businessman and colourful character in the Capital, is himself very much alive, enjoying retirement mainly in the Spanish sun. Afterwords . . . . . "A lot of people who write into newspapers are nutters," says Alexei Sayle, and he's right, of course. Like some people who write for newspapers are not quite right in the head. ©2008 Johnston Press Digital Publishing