Grandsons school uniform

A proper kilt pin is a bit heavier and helps , the obligatory Sporran with a few Bawbees to weigh it down ensures modesty , especially if slung low

Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low, through the streets in ma kilt I go!

The sporran with its bawbees to weigh it down sounds a tad uncomfortable to me ?

Cmfort ? Comfort? what has that to do with School !!

Oh let's go back to the proper thing then. A length of cloth they can wear in the day and wrap round them when they go to sleep in their cardboard box. Oh and Jalima's socks of course.

This is fun to read. It's so good I can't find anything much to add. I will just enjoy.

I read the heading as "Gruesome school uniform" Must go to Specsavers.

Re uncomfortable bawbee-laden sporran.
In school dance lessons, advice is given that when indulging in A Dashing White Sergeant or Broon's Reel the sporran should be shifted round to sit on the hip!

Ah, that sounds sensible?

It's wise not to keep too many bawbees around your person anyway, as Scots usually don't.
So Scots are not mean, only sensible.

I'm with you Nelliemoser - have been reading in installments today and laughing out loud. Well done GNetters!

There's not much room for bawbees in the cardboard box anyway.
I wonder if Jalima could knit a sporran?

She'd have to retrieve her knitting needle after spearing the cat.......

Oh a bit of blood won't be noticed!

I can lend any amount of knitting needles , they are holding up my hair at the minute , handy or what ?

Sorry your thread seems to have got derailed, Tree100. This is so unlike us sensible Gransnetters.
Do come back if you want to say anything else about school uniform. Did you have to buy a cap or a balaclava? Many schools allow parents a choice on that.

Well I haven't managed to knit any sporrans but have knitted 53 little bags like the ones Anya recommended (was it Anya?), all in homespun wool collected from hedgerows.

Plus 105 socks of various sizes and colours for people with oddly sized feet

Hat ? ........ nothing but a Glengarry will pass muster for our lot. It is a bit moth eaten after so many years , it was mine many years ago ..... sigh

I suppose you want me to start on balaclavas now!

Is there no end to this knitting?
The cat has scarpered btw

Were you knitting with cat hair, Jalima?

Why on earth would anyone need a deliciously sticky, sweet baklava for a school uniform FarNorth?

It saves time. gilly. School uniforms get sticky pretty fast anyway, this cuts out the delay so they can go straight into the washing machine without waiting for them to be worn to school.

Oh I see Elegran But wouldn't you be tempted to bite bits off ? Especially in that lesson immediately before lunch .

Better buy one a couple of sizes too big.

Dog hair actually FarNorth - it's so much easier to spin, lots of lovely hair, especially with 6 Afghan Hounds in the household.
That's probably why the cat scarpered, nothing to do with the knitting needle.