O/T Fit You Reading 3

[57vintage]

Literacy is literally a heavy burden to bear sometimes.

The film adaptation of Brooklyn is on BBC2 tonight, and I imagine it will be on iPlayer thereafter, fellow licence-payers.

I’ve just begun listening to the Spotify audiobook of Norah Webster by the boy too, but wisna really concentrating, so will have to start again.

[swaddon2]

I've just finished the 1977 Broons book.

The Bairn misinterpreted something Granpaw said, with hilarious consequences.

[57vintage]

I've just finished the 1977 Broons book.

The Bairn misinterpreted something Granpaw said, with hilarious consequences.

I am glad that you called it the Broons book, as it is often referred to as the Broons annual. The latter description is nonsense since it was published in alternate years with the Oor Wullie book. Billy Connolly once said that he thought Oor Wullie was a book about Siamese twins - now more properly referred to as conjoined twins.

[TheDeeDon]

I've just finished the 1977 Broons book.

The Bairn misinterpreted something Granpaw said, with hilarious consequences.

I bought this out of Oxfam last year, as I collect both the Broons and Oor Wullie.

I have the full collection from 1970s, bar two 70s editions and also some 50s and 60s. Difficult getting good quality older copies, but charity shops can sometimes turn up some crackers for sale.

I have Broons book from around 1959 or 60, which has an inscription written inside the cover, to a daughter (nae pictures) from her Mum and Dad for her Xmas that year.

[TheDeeDon]

Literacy is literally a heavy burden to bear sometimes.

The film adaptation of Brooklyn is on BBC2 tonight, and I imagine it will be on iPlayer thereafter, fellow licence-payers.

I’ve just begun listening to the Spotify audiobook of Norah Webster by the boy too, but wisna really concentrating, so will have to start again.

Cheers for the heads up. Never knew there was a film adaptation, so keen to see how it compares to the book.

[swaddon2]

I bought this out of Oxfam last year, as I collect both the Broons and Oor Wullie.

I have the full collection from 1970s, bar two 70s editions and also some 50s and 60s. Difficult getting good quality older copies, but charity shops can sometimes turn up some crackers for sale.

I have Broons book from around 1959 or 60, which has an inscription written inside the cover, to a daughter (nae pictures) from her Mum and Dad for her Xmas that year.

I've got all the Broons and Oor Wullie books (nae annuals) from 1970-2024. My dad used to get them every year for Christmas, and I started getting them after he died.

That's something you don't see much these days, inscriptions and people writing their names and addresses in books.

[57vintage]

I had a post-war Broons book which had a strip where Oor Wullie and his pals came round to Glebe Street to play wth the Bairn and the Twins. The adults all ****ed off, leaving the brats on their own, with a sunlamp borrowed from somewhere. The kids played at explorers, and the Bairn was blacked-up. Thinking they’d overused the sunlamp, Paw said, “Abody will think she’s a wee d*rkie”.

I suppose DC Thomson, being a reactionary non-union shop, would see nothing wrong with that even now, the ****s.

[TheDeeDon]

I've got all the Broons and Oor Wullie books (nae annuals) from 1970-2024. My dad used to get them every year for Christmas, and I started getting them after he died.

That's something you don't see much these days, inscriptions and people writing their names and addresses in books.

I used to get them at Xmas from my Ma.and did so until she passed. I still get given them every year.
My own collection would be from about 79, but everything I have prior to 79, I have picked up from charity shops. Found an early 50s one in a charity shop last year, but they wanted ?25 and wasn't in the best of nick.

I like the fact that the girls Xmas present is still going strong over 60 years later and hope she is too.

I have a book of poetry from 1910, that was a gift to a teacher from her class, and the inscription inside it, is so nice and the handwriting is like a work of art.


I have no idea where the book came from, as I don't even like poetry.

[Mason89]

Mrs Mason reckons Mr Messy is deeply depressed, Mr Neat & Mr Tidy are fascists and trying to normalise inviting two strangers into your house to bathe you, is sending the wrong message to children

[swaddon2]

I had a post-war Broons book which had a strip where Oor Wullie and his pals came round to Glebe Street to play wth the Bairn and the Twins. The adults all ****ed off, leaving the brats on their own, with a sunlamp borrowed from somewhere. The kids played at explorers, and the Bairn was blacked-up. Thinking they’d overused the sunlamp, Paw said, “Abody will think she’s a wee d*rkie”.

I suppose DC Thomson, being a reactionary non-union shop, would see nothing wrong with that even now, the ****s.

There's an Oor Wullie strip where he has to go for dancing lessons, and he gets caked in mud on the way. The teacher doesn't mind, because they're doing a black and white minstrel show anyway.

Different times.