The de-forestration of Scotland

Oh yes. I think we should have a log splitter. DH considers it beneath him though.

Baubles - sorry. You've got me totally stumped there.

Oh my gosh! I just googled that phrase Baubles said! How funny!

Ha, ha, ha, you've got me stumped!

Oh, baubles, you take me back to the days when I used to pop round to Granny's house to read Oor Wullie and the Broons in the Sunday Post which my dad wouldn't have in our house.

Get it? Tree stump! Oh well, I thought it was funny.
wanders off mumbling, totally stumped^- ^tree stump.

A must every Sunday Anno

Well. Yes. I thought that's what you meant, and I did think it was funny. BUT you should have put the "stumped" in quote marks. Then I would have known for sure that's what you meant. And I would have responded appropriately.

Lesson over.

You should have put this - "you've got me stumped".

See?

That Willy actually says "jings" as well as the rest of it. When you google it.

I'll shut up now.

God it's hard work on here sometimes

I wish my son in law had used that expression a couple of weeks ago then I wouldn't have had my DGD telling me in in a very loud voice in her local Waitrose cafe that 'My Mummy doesn't like f**king hell'

It's Oor WULLIE!!

In my yoof, I always travelled with a bucket in his honour. It was ever so useful.

A bucket.

W T F

nellynolan they always come out with these things at the wrong moment don't they. At least it wasn't you who taught her the naughty swear words.

The places I went on holiday never had washing-machines. Plus it was useful for carrying all sorts of stuff. Impromptu seat. Etc. Dead useful.

This thread is cheering me up no end

Anno Sundays just wouldn't have been the same without the Sunday Post.

I did not know about it until I met my husband. Then we had to buy it every week. It's the best Sunday paper in Northumberland, too.

Now I've got this picture in my head of Bags, outside a tent in the middle of the North York Moors, rain pelting down, bitterly cold wind whistling across a lonely campsite, sitting on an upturned bucket, from which she has just fished out her sarnies.

jings. Oor Wullie was always depicted sitting on an enamel bucket.

Was my grammer ok this time?

Excellent.

Anyone else remember when a bucket was called a pail?

Oor Wullie, Fat Bob and Soapy Souter. Ageless.

I have never seen a kangaroo up a tree, even a eucalyptus! (I have seen koalas though, and btw they are NOT bears but of course you all knew that, nor are they Scottish!).

No good me trying to climb a tree, especially a Scots pine with a straight trunk.

Buckets were always pails.

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water

(why not two, one each, and WHY was the water up the hill not down at the bottom in the pool?)

Because it wouldn't rhyme?