Thank you Mr Parochial (I have to let you know I've just spent the
last half-hour or so drowning in the church records index for
Leicester hoping to find a pasteable version of the Cobbett on
Knighton - all I got was endless catalogue references to it. And I am
not going to type it out for an e-mail - I draw the line somewhere)
The Usual Suspects, I buy that.
2008/8/26 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
>> I don't know about 'Glasgow Diary' : tell me more.
>
> amazon.co.uk:
>
> Glasgow Diary (Unknown Binding) [Oct. 1979]
> by Archie Hind (Author), Donald Saunders (Author), Alisdair Gray (Editor)
> 8 used & new available from £5.95
>
> I thought it was fronted by Donald Saunders -- shows how much I know.
>
> The entry on "Codliver Orange and the Orange Juice" was written by Hamish
> Whyte.
>
> I asked Hamish what this was about, and most of the entry is recycled Carl
> McDougal.
>
> Other than that, what I know is probably libelous, actionable, and wrong.
>
> Both Tom Leonard and Jim Kelamn -- the usual suspects -- were involved.
>
> It's rather a neat book, and you can even show it to your granny (at the
> same time asking her why she sold her mangle) and get a chuckle out of her.
>
> Deeply parochial.
>
> R.
>
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David Bircumshaw
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