Edinburgh - advice please.....

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:44 am

Annette M

Thanks for the post on Bunty's 4 Mary's, I was going to post that yesterday but for the life of me couldnt remember the name of the lassies magazine. I used to sneak it from my sister and have a read

Of course when I had finished reading my Dandy, Beano and Hotspur

And of course this was well after I had finished, or done my compulsory reading of the school books under mothers eagle eye

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:34 am

Hi Rita

No it wasn't a typing error it was a mental abberration.

When I lived in Ormiston you could walk along the railway to Smeaton 2 or 3 miles away.

All this reminiscing has addled the poor old brain !!

Russell

P.S. As a folk singer I used to sing the blessed song - word perfect every time

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:12 am

lbathgate wrote:I remember that Annette, though I was more of a "Mandy" reader on a weekly basis!
But I had an uncle who worked for DC Thomson so at Christmas I was given Mandy & Bunty annuals.

I always wondered who were allowed to read "comics" regularly. Fairly serious illness was the only excuse in my youth; if you were healthy, you read real books! Was I the only one?

I suppose someone must have bought them and kept Dundee on its feet. Looks a wee bit like "them and us" in retrospect though I must admit to having bought "comics" for the next generation only as a treat.

I must confess also that the daily paper was split up and strategically positioned by oor bairns´ plates every morning at breakfast (we´re not so loquacious), just to tempt them.
Seems to have worked reasonably. Or were they getting their own back at Christmas, when daughter returned from Finland and gave me the thickest Finnish novel (in translation) and son from Seattle with a very heavy tome on Scottish history. Who knows. Perhaps I´ll dare to ask in ten years´time.

Good hunting,

Thrall

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:08 am

I always wondered who were allowed to read "comics" regularly. Fairly serious illness was the only excuse in my youth; if you were healthy, you read real books! Was I the only one?
Good hunting,

Thrall

We bought a comic regularly every week until we moved away from Ibrox.

It started off with the Twinkle and Little Star and moved on through the Mandy, Debbie, Jackie etc

Until when I was in my late teens when we would go to the local newsagents and ask for " The Comics for Bell" and be handed a Majesty magazine, Womans Weekly, Nursing Times and the Beano

My own kids get the Beano occasionally and the wee fella gets a Thomas the Tank engine if he's at the Post Office with me during the week.

Incidentally we are all great readers, so it certainly didn't put us off 'real' books.

Post by **joette** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:27 pm

Granny visited every thursday when we lived up the "Fifley" & would bring lots of forbidden delights-sweets,crisps,fizzy juice & off course the comics!The Beano/Dandy for Dad-he was a great one for the books honest!,Twinkle for Eliz/Mandy,Bunty,Judy for Margeret & I.Mum had as an occasional treat the Woman & Home.Granny read the People's Friend which I loved!!We read the News of the World on a Sunday evening when staying at Granny's after Grandpa had gone to work/bed.He considered it trash even then-Grannywould read out the less scandalous pieces to me,muttering over the evils of others & I would read it cover to cover when she wasn't there!
We learned the Four Mary's at school & would try the trick question who was the Fourth Mary?Often caught out the unsuspecting.
Edinburgh Parish is listed on the IGI as the marriage place of my 5x Great-Grandparents but viewing the film it is actually old Greyfriars Parish.Does this mean there wasn't a Church in Greyfriars c 1779 & they were actually married in St.Giles?Or am I having a "mature moment"?

maggie · Post by **maggie** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:51 pm

On the subject of the 4 Mary's in the Bunty magazine i can only remember 2 of the surnames Mary Cotter?the one with the glasses?
and Mary Radleigh who knows the other two

i too started with Twinkle then Bunty then Jackie "auntie" worked in the local store/postoffice and they where one of my weekly treats happy day's

maggie

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:09 pm

Hi

I think they were Mary Simpson and Mary Field.Brings back memories

Jean

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:06 am

In our house we were allowed the comics for my sister and I. But we also had a lot of real books we were expected to read, and were expected to read the newspapers as well.
I suppose my mother made sure we had a broad reading experience, and of course there was the mandatory dictionary at hand to check up any word we didnt know. We had to do this ourselves, no help from mither

and she would check to make sure we could spell it too

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:49 am

StewL wrote:In our house we were allowed the comics for my sister and I. But we also had a lot of real books we were expected to read, and were expected to read the newspapers as well.
I suppose my mother made sure we had a broad reading experience, and of course there was the mandatory dictionary at hand to check up any word we didnt know. We had to do this ourselves, no help from mither and she would check to make sure we could spell it too

On reflection, it was probably an economic measure too - no unnecessary spending. A television was bought, the year that both my brither and I had left home. You´d not want the learning bairns distracted! It meant that we really got hooked on departure, after renting a pad, renting a telly was next on the agenda. Make the most of what it cost.

BTW, the Scots´so called thrift or "meanness" apparently originates from Harry Lauder´s act. See http://www.sirharrylauder.com/ Henry from Portobello.

Seems it rang a bell?

Thrall

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