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And if you want to know why library staff were serving up McVitie's chocolate digestive biscuits, then look no further than @threadinburgh.scot
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The thread about Robert McVitie and Alexander Grant; Edinburgh bakers who gave us the most enduringly popular biscuits
McVitie’s remains a household name in Scotland and the UK, a byword for the nations’ favourite biscuits. This company enjoyed a meteoric rise in the late 19th century as a result of its…
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August 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I used to work in that building. First time I walked into the
room behind, I jumped out my skin. Weeping Angels at the window 😂
April 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just in case you didn’t know how electric plugs worked in 1920s suburbia.
March 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This is BAFTA-winning stuff now!
February 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
T-bone Rex. Now that’s meaty 🤣
January 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’ve just had a look at it. Yeah, best with a fake owl 🤣🤣. Stevie the cat would have a field day 😸😸
December 23, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I look forward to your ‘how light it is a 5pm’ posts. It’s how I gauge winter is passing 😃
December 23, 2024 at 1:44 PM
And they are singing Amazing Grace not Galway Bay.
December 16, 2024 at 2:46 PM
You have just given a Public Service Announcement which I’ll follow after my usual museum meander.
December 8, 2024 at 6:32 PM
😀 Well done Alison. Eclairs always seem to be last ones in any tub I’ve ever seen!
December 8, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Same here. We watched it the other day. It was just the right kind of film that everyone can watch.
December 8, 2024 at 6:29 PM
So is the tub empty, except for Eclairs?
December 8, 2024 at 9:58 AM
That’s a great idea. I was a Christmas postie once when I was a student years ago. Sorting office was up around Slateford. Don’t remember much about the office - more the trudging around in the snow and rain. Money was good though.
December 7, 2024 at 1:27 PM