really old style living?

zarazara

The Broons. the Sunday Post I think the paper was [is?] called. I loved it.A friend used to buy it and the following week bring it for us to read. I liked the Doctors page too, I remember a story about a bed ridden woman getting a tv and the Doc being worried it would be all too much of a shock for her. But it all worked out ok in the end. Happy Days. And didnt people win something nice and simple and useful,like a pair of towels,for sending in good advice to the letters page?

mardatha

You still get the Sunday Post, I havent read it for years though.
http://www.thesundaypost.co.uk/

grazerz_2

Christmas just isn't christmas without the Broons or Oor Wullie annuals

seasalt_2

MIL gets it and we get the annuals at Christmas.

kegc

Hey everyone - first time poster here! Just had to come out of the woodwork and introduce myself.

I always got the Broons and Oor Wullie books for christmas! They were my favourite part! Horace definitely my favourite - I also have Maw Broons cookbook which is wonderful!

Dont remember Angus Ogg tho..:o

Great thread BTW x

mardatha

Angus Og was a comic strip which ran in the Daily Record and The Sunday Mail drawn by Ewen Bain, an Art Teacher who taught at both Allan Glen's and Kingsridge Senior Secondary Schools during his time working in education. It featured the eponymous Angus Og, and a whole host of other characters, including: his mother; Rosie the Highland cow; Lachie Mor; and Granny McBrochan. It was set on the fictional island of Drambeg, "fairest island in the Utter Hebrides".

mardatha

http://thecroft.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/angus-og/

zarazara

Welcome kegc. Its a friendly place here. Any chance of you posing some Ma Broon's recipes when you've settled in?

kegc

Hey Zarazara! Of course I can - i love them as theyre proper home cooked scottish grub!

Thanks for the Angus Ogg info Mardatha - very interesting! I would love to live in Drambeg!

Thanks for the welcome

mardatha

I forgot which book has my dried flowers in it... I have about a million books to look through now I was going to start doing stuff with them for xmas. I have 3 hampers to make, and have decided on 1 each themed in red, purple, and pink (their fav colours). I'm looking at home baking and sweetie making - which was fabulous last year even though a lot of the stuff seemed to vanish in the making... (quality control, right ? Very important ! )
I wanted to ask you where you can get crystallised flowers for cake decoration ? I could try and get the colours to match the hampers.
I have two neighbours with holly, they said I can help myself. Then I will collect some pine cones and sprigs of spruce, and buy glitter glue and spray paint. :j The garden centres want £20 for a teeny wee plastic yule log covered in pine cones & glitter, and they aint getting it off me