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Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:33 pm

Think a hybrid.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:52 pm

Sgurr wrote:Think a hybrid.

Eureka! It's the Tayberry, a hybrid of the Blackberry and Raspberry developed by Derek L Jennings of Dundee.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:05 am

CharlesT wrote:
Sgurr wrote:Think a hybrid.

Eureka! It's the Tayberry, a hybrid of the Blackberry and Raspberry developed by Derek L Jennings of Dundee.


I was just away to my bed when I had my Eureka moment but an hour after you, Charles. Well done! The loganberrry is its US form developed by James Harvey Logan
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:51 am

CORRECT!!!!!!!! Your go. I was racking my brains for further clues, the next, shamefully would have been "a river runs through it.". I was lead to it via Worcesterberry remembering an old friend and contributor to the Scottish National Dictionary on all words Brechin. He grew some in the garden of his tied gardener's cottage, and when he retired to a Council House, the first autumn his ex boss called and said "Would you like to come and pick your Worcesterberries, Norman ?" " I thought 'She's no a' bad then'" and took his leather gauntlets up there to pick as they have ferocious spines. When he had a bucketful, she got a small poly bag, filled it and handed them to him "That's for your trouble Norman." I think Tayberries are a lot easier...or so he told me.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:11 pm

Sgurr wrote:CORRECT!!!!!!!! Your go. I was racking my brains for further clues, the next, shamefully would have been "a river runs through it.". I was lead to it via Worcesterberry remembering an old friend and contributor to the Scottish National Dictionary on all words Brechin. He grew some in the garden of his tied gardener's cottage, and when he retired to a Council House, the first autumn his ex boss called and said "Would you like to come and pick your Worcesterberries, Norman ?" " I thought 'She's no a' bad then'" and took his leather gauntlets up there to pick as they have ferocious spines. When he had a bucketful, she got a small poly bag, filled it and handed them to him "That's for your trouble Norman." I think Tayberries are a lot easier...or so he told me.

Nice story. I can recall as a boy being tasked to destem basketfulls of red and white currants provided to my mother by an old gent from his nearby allotment; child's fingers being much more suited to such tasks. Nothing quite like a red and white currant tart.

A PM from BoS is somewhat unusual for being entire.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Sat Sep 11, 2021 1:22 pm

Too much to hope it's a Personal Message from the Bank of Scotland, as I can't think why one should get incomplete ones.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Sat Sep 11, 2021 2:05 pm

Sgurr wrote:Too much to hope it's a Personal Message from the Bank of Scotland, as I can't think why one should get incomplete ones.

Afraid not. No messaging nor banks are involved. Though the PM did convey a message of sorts.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Sun Sep 12, 2021 9:12 am

Several examples are housed in SM, the location of which "M" bade good wishes to in 1980.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:39 am

If it helps we're not on the mainland here.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:09 pm

Could you be on Skye at the Staffin Museum, although I am only guessing with no other answers.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:59 pm

rohan wrote:Could you be on Skye at the Staffin Museum, although I am only guessing with no other answers.

Not on Skye, but you have one word correct.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Mon Sep 13, 2021 2:00 pm

CharlesT wrote:
rohan wrote:Could you be on Skye at the Staffin Museum, although I am only guessing with no other answers.

Not on Skye, but you have one word correct.

That ll be museum, then!
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:13 pm

is it a Paw Mark from one of those dinosaurs? Can't find a BoM
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Mon Sep 13, 2021 4:17 pm

rohan wrote:
CharlesT wrote:
rohan wrote:Could you be on Skye at the Staffin Museum, although I am only guessing with no other answers.

Not on Skye, but you have one word correct.

That ll be museum, then!

Well deduced. 🙂
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Mon Sep 13, 2021 4:20 pm

Sgurr wrote:is it a Paw Mark from one of those dinosaurs? Can't find a BoM

Not that, less ephemeral and much later. As we are not looking for a BoM I wouldn't be too bothered about not finding one.🙂
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