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.

Delurking to declare Scottishness.

That should have been

I was more a Skirt and Slack Centre kinda lass

Ghinns?

I'm a bit late to this one. But I'm Scottish too. And I had the world's most humiliating anorak from What Everys as a child.

Oh I had green pleated school uniform skirts from the Skirt and Slack Centre. Made of chemicals. They were quite a nice style but the material was awful.

I had a lovely black box pleat skirt from the Skirt and Slack centre. My mum cursed it soundly every Sunday night when she was doing the ironing

Smarties for reasons too complicated to explain I'm sitting on my own in a hotel room in London watching the fitba and have just hooted with laughter at "the world's most humiliating anorak"

Was it an odd shade of brown by any chance? Not a rich chocolate or chesnut brown but brown combining a sort of dishwater grey ?

You rarely hear the word slacks these days! I can't remember where I got school skirts but I do remember my mum buying me massive blazers so she could get her money's worth.

Isn't Thierry Henry lovely?

I think brown anoraks were compulsory weren't they? Anyone else have flannelette sheets and a candlewick bedspread?

squirreled i'm driving into the very arse of Scotland in the sumner. From South London

Gonna rely on my phone but how is the reception up yours there?

Blazers fitting occupy about the same time-span as pears being edible.

I think I had a boy's one in my 6th year so my little brother could inherit it.

My sister is 7 years older than me. Not enough time for the clothes to have become stylishly retro. I think I finished 6th year with my blazer still too big for me.

Drink where are you defining as the arse of Scotland?

Thierry Henry does appear to be the best of the studio line-up.

We didn't have candlewick bedspreads. We did have a number of very lovely but very heavy and very old and very lumpy feather quilts. Not that that is particularly Scottish.

Unlike haggis which I like a lot(even made an exception for it during my vegetarian phase). Thought haggis should get a shout.

I wish we'd had quilts we had a lot of power cuts.

Not tempted by veggie haggis then?

We ate a lot of stew. And my mum made masses of shortbread.

This thread is a right nostalgia fest. I lived near Aberdeen till about 14. Then lived in Perthshire. have also been a student in Edinburgh, lived in Glasgow , worked in Paisley then lived in Aberdeen again then Edinburgh again and now back in Perthshire. DH works in Dundee. am loving recognising lots of the references from various abodes!

Phaedra It was a resplendent shade of dog egg. With quite a pointy hood. So it was basically a jobby costume.
Which is indeed , what everyone wants.

I loved WEWW simply because that's where I got my roller boots in 1980 . Happy days!!

What happened to What Every Woman Wants? Did they go bust? Did the market in jobby costume anoraks collapse?

I'm going to Orkney for the first time at midsummer.

Now the summer light is definitely one of the best things in Scotland. I don't mind the permanent nights in the winter, it's so lovely as the days dra'oot as my grandfather would say. (Swiftly followed by "the nichts are fair dra'ing in")

The other great thing about growing up in Scotland is the opportunity to gloat at the flat- footed attempts of anyone who didn't go to school in Scotland trying to dance at a Scottish wedding.

All those weeks of 'social dancing' certainly paid off!

smartie poor you, but that is very funny.