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.

squirreled but I will need a paper map, won't I?

I'm an ayrshire lass

Aberdeenshire is the very arse of Scotland?

I am mortally wounded. If I had any blue and white face paints I would be clarting it on and tucking a hanky wrapped thistle into my drawers.

You will struggle for a signal to call for help though.

Afraid I don't have time to read all 29 pages but am guessing the gist of it is that mumsnet is full of us

Scottish and a weegie to boot.

Maybe we need some tartan icons MNHQ?

I think my favourite Aberdeen shop from around mid 70s to mid 80s was Happy Trails- sold Levis and hippy/dippy dresses, cheesecloth blouses and long skirts.

Nothing wrong with Aberdeenshire. I'm not going to offend anyone by nominating my arse end of Scotland.

Re mobile phone when I was on Orange I often couldn't get a signal in my house in central Edinburgh. Frequently would have to go out to the front steps.

Oh I loved Happy Trails!

Does anyone who was growing up in. Glasgow in the 90's remember Virginia Galleries? Purveyors of tie dyed blouses and velvet jackets!

Weebarra I remember Virginia galleries! And there was a wee stall too in the argyll market with all things goth and velvet :) used to like having a wee nosy before going to the cheap as chips cafe for a roll and sausage and a cuppa.

Oh Virginia Galleries! My DM used to go in for incense and oil for her very 90s burner!

DH's pal had a music/comics/bits and bobs shop in there.

My favourite 90s Glasgow shop was McDonald's Toyshop on Skirving Street. Or maybe the Jolly Giant. Or State of Independence for scrunchies and mini bumbags.

My mum used to take me to what every wummin fir school and running aboot clothes

Not going to read through 700 replies but I take it us scots have properly hijacked this thread.

I often want to start a "waving at other Scots" thread when I'm feeling homesick (often, in other words) but don't want to seem like some goady anti-English Scot (always paranoid about coming across like that) and the Scottish local boards are no good, they're just full of threads asking for recommended nurseries/schools in the area.

Oh oh, maybe I should start a homesick Scottish mums in England thread....

I've got a book of photos of Glesga in the 80s, scottish and there's a brilliant picture of the Weisfelds in their blinging, probably Merchant City, penthouse, furnished hideously with the proceeds of their What Every's empire!

coming well, it is somewhere on the coast, very high up. the place i'm going to. on the map it looks like the arse of nowhere. is it offensive?

She always looked like a wee coatbrig mammy,despite their wealth

Virginia galleries,aye!i always thought it was stappit fu of patchouli wafty hippies

Scottish and a weegie to boot.

We Weegies are like an infestation on this board.

Quarter Scottish!

Quarter good enough fir me

This kind of thing tends to happen in the arse of nowhere. Granted it's more of a West coast thing, but you never know. If you see this, Drink they're not awa to roast marshmallows. Run like fuck.

Although you might actually get high enough up to get a good signal.

Welsh

State of Independence for scrunchies and mini bumbags

We had a state of independence in Fife too before it turned into internacionale and then went bust. I got my first boyfriend as a result of a purchase from state of independence, my first "grown up" cleavage revealing t shirt.

i remember virginia galleries and also who could forget Eurasia Crafts on Great Western Road for tie dyed, fringed skirts and gothic/hippy stuff

Anyone remember Pentangle? There was along the end of the high street in Kirkcaldy and you could buy single sheets of different coloured writing paper and envelopes? We moved to Morayshire when we got married and found a Pentangle in Inverness

I remember Pentangle, there used to be one in Aberdeen.