Newcastle are back.

The Diamonds, the Magpies, the boys in black and white, good old Newcastle.

They were not gone they were only sleeping.

During their hibernation Edinburgh adopted four of the Newcastle fans who appeared week after week just to watch Speedway.

Be it against Glasgow, Long Eaton or Cradley. Peterborough, Stoke or Coventry. the lads & lassies dressed in black & white regalia could be seen posted mid straight at both Powderhall and Shawfield.

I have managed to capture three of them here, the third must be laying down behind the barrel.

Their track was closed but they travelled all the way from Newcastle just to get their weekly fix of Speedway.

Or did they???

I often said a 'Hello.' but was greeted with a muffled silence.

Friends of mine said the same. The Newcastle quartet never spoke to anyone.

I put it to you dear reader that the Newcastle quartet were not from Newcastle. A conversation would have revealed they spoke not of the Georgie tongue.

I put it to you that the Newcastle Quartet were infact from Edinburgh and week after week they perpetuated an elaborate hoax to make us think they were from Newcastle.

Well the jokes backfired. Now the four pranksters have to travel to Newcastle every week to see Speedway.

Boy, I'd love to have seen their smiling faces when they found out Newcastle Speedway was starting up again. Tonight's their home match!

Talking of black & white con tricks - what about Pepe le Poo the cartoon Skunk.

Every episode is the same:- A female cat accidentally get a white stripe of paint down her back and that stupid git Pepe le Proodictable thinks she's a female skunk.

A black cat with a white strip painted on it's back looks nothing a skunk. (That's the cat on the left).

Try it. Paint a white stripe down the back of a black cat and see how many skunks come around. None.

Yet week after week we are forced to watch Pepe le Stupid Poo try and chat up a painted cat.

How Fred Quimby came to have his name attached to such nonsense

is beyond me.