Oor Wulllie Bucket Trail Dundee

This is the Oor Wullie Bucket Trail, in Scotland this summer, five cities had statues of this comic character dotted around. In Dundee we decided to find most of the statues and we managed to see most of them. The last two photos are from St.Andrews where there were only two to find. There were a few in Perth which we did not see and three in Broughty Ferry. While I was in Edinburgh I also spotted about 6 or 7, they are all fantastic, with great designs.

Oor Wullie (Our Willie) is a Scottish comic character created by D C Thompson and published in The Sunday Post newspaper. He is famous for his spiky hair, dungarees and carries around an unturned bucket which he uses as a seat. He first appeared in the newspaper in 1936, created by Thomspon editor R D Low and draw by cartoonist Dudley D Watkins.

In the comics he is also joined  by Fat Bob, Soapy Soutar, Wee Eck and Primrose, plus his Ma and Pa and PC Murdoch. They all talk in Scots with famous sayings such “Help Ma Boab“ and “Jings“.

The bucket trail finishes this weekend so if you haven't seen any or want to see more best get a move on.

Wishing you all a great weekend

Verdant Works

In mid April Alessio and I went back to Scotland for 5 days, the main reason was to celebrate my dad turning 70yrs old. Our days were jammed packed with activities and one of them was a visit to the Verdant Works. It is here that I finally saw The Great Tapestry of Scotland (only half of the panels though), afterwards we visited the museum.

Verdant Works is Scotland`s Jute Museum, here you learn about the rise and fall of jute, how Dundee became very important for Jute, the people who lived and worked in the mills, how jute was made and where it came from.

One of the people who work there showed myself and my father how one of the machines worked, it was so very loud, I could barely handle it. And to think women would work with about 6 of these machines for long periods of time!

It is a very good museum, well worth a visit if you are in the area!