Between us we carried an ancient shopping bag by having a handle each, so our puny wee muscles could carry quite a lot.
We handed the handwritten note over to the Elder Grocer if we could (he would 'gie us a sweetie' where as his '& Son' wouldn't). Amazing as it would seem today, the list always included a gill of whisky and a can of McEwans Pale Ale, given to a six and a nine year old without a murmur...
Now what happened next, depended on the amount of change and if we had gotten sweeties or not.
Off to John Menzies, just opposite, we'd either get a comic and a sweetie, or two comics; I'd get the Victor or the Hotspur, my sister would get the Bunty, the Beano or the Dandy or both if the finances were right.
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That reminds me that I've got loads of old "Commando" comic books I got from a friend of my dad's. I bring them out whenever I want to brush up on my German and Japanese. Didn't they have ugly and brutal soldiers whilst our guys were handsome and heroic?
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Saw Phil Jupitus last night on the review show with the "Coalition" show he his doing at the festival. If ever there is a satire on the independence debate Jupitus MUST play Cochrane simply because of physical resemblence. The question is can he master a Dundonian accent----
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Ah, the Dandy. My brother and myself were very lucky. My grannie had the editor of the Evening Tele lodge with her and he used to give us all the children's comics.
ReplyDeleteWe passed them onto our pals and us children devised quite a complex 'hand-on' schedule. It seemed to work well and therefore a couple of dozen children enjoyed all the comics for free.
If I remember there were more comics for boys than girls. Typical. :)
Dandy was the first thing I ever read. The 'Black Bob' stories were early science fiction, and all written out, real stories! just one picture.
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