To believe that a very high % of mumsnetters are Scottish

[greedygal]

I get this impression and have no idea why - is this my imagination or is this the case?

Where are you originally from?

I am thoroughly English.

Actually just realised The Whitsun Wedding parties didn't get on at York as we haven't yet reached York. Suspect they might be for Ladies' Day at York races.

Sorry, I digress.

I know what you mean by a gruffalo shop!

I lived in bruntsfield 96-97

MorrisZapp you've almost tempted me :) And I totally know what you mean by "Gruffalo shops". However I didn't think they ever closed down! Doesn't Daddy's money bail them out?

I live in the People's Republic of Leith and love it, but I accept Leithers have a reputation too. My favourite ever was when a Hootsmon correspondent accused us of "wandering around in ursine stained trousers". I think he meant "urine" but the alternative is better

What is a bloody Gruffalo shop!?

Speaking of dept stores - had anyone been to Rejects in Kirkcaldy? Amazing place but the name, the name.... I was recommended to go for curtains and told it used to specialise in reject stuff but doesn't any more. It's a local "brand" so the name was unchanged but that's ok if you're a local - it hadn't been recommended it would never have occurred it me it was a normal shop

Dalry now has an M&S food at Haymarket thanks to the trams. Dalry is already considerably more gentrified than when I first moved to Edinburgh but that might shove it up a notch.

I googled - it was called 'Wrygges'! Oh fair takes me back....

Shops that sell gruffalos type stuff and all the things that go with them - themed water bottles, kids cutlery sets etc and other gifty fluffy stuff that fits in that same bracket.

Stuff no one ever really needs!

I'm assuming a Gruffalo shop is a shop like Halibut and Herring which to my astonishment not only has survived but multiplied.

Oh aye wrygges was like miss selfridge I think

Ooh, is Halibut and Herring still going? What about the one with "Blue", I think, in its name, opposite of the M&S?

Thankyou for the explanation.

I'll admit that I love those sort of shops. Not Gruffalo stuff,but lovely if frivolous,arty stuff for the home,though nothing with words on it.I know what to do with a bath. I don't need a handcarved wooden sign on the side of it,saying 'wash' or 'cleanse'
If I go on holiday,half of my holiday is spent looking for independent shops that sell that sort of thing.

The first flat DH and I bought was in Dalry in 2002. The restaurant First Coast opened around either same time we moved and I always think of it as "our" restaurant for that reason. Had our 10 yr anniversary meal there.

I like Dalry. I always felt comfortable walking home late at night as there was always people around. My colleague locks her car though if she is waiting at the start of Dalry Road to pick her DH up from the station which makes me !

You need to be a unique kind of rude to work in a Morningside Gruffalo/card/teatowel shop.

Your main target is to repel customers from even opening the door. If they insist on entering, hell mend them!

Ultimate goal is to sell zero products per day until folding of business. It's an interesting model but we have found it successful.

Edinburgh is my favourite place in Scotland, totally love it. If I had any money at all I would move there.

oh urm I call the shit shops I love a rummage but never buy cos its a,ll shit

I had a baseball jacket from Wrygges :)

And tight jeans fae Cockburn Street.

Do we have no lovers of Aberdeen here? I visited it for the first time recently,and fell in love with it,and Aberdeenshire in general. There's so many nice little Gruffalo shops,and lovely cafes. It's a nice place to just walk around,and the people were very friendly.

Aberdeen is my second favourite Scottish city now,after my own hometown of Glasgow. I've yet to visit Dundee though,so it could change.

I've visited Aberdeen quite a bit but can't really take to it. It does have good shops though.

I bought a pair of the tightest jeans ever fro wrygges loved them they had zips up the ankle I am sure they were £50 my mum thought I was daft paying that much

EddieStobbart naw, 10 years ago I was in forrin parts, otherwise it might have been me :) It's just the fucking gentrification I object to.

I used to have to rip the bottoms of my tight jeans to get my feet in and then my mum would sew me into them.

I loved the 80s!

Aberdeen is mental - my abiding memories of it are dark grey (skies and architecture) a fair amount of prostitution and Goths. I hasten to add, wisnae me doing the prostitution