David Banks
05-May-09, 18:24
Does anybody remember "Frenchie" selling onions with their dried tops weaved into "strings" ?
He used to carry the strings over the handlebars of a bicycle, and I remember him having at least one silver tooth.
I'm guessing that he would come in late summer or early fall.
This was in Scarfskerry, and I do not know if he also went to Week or Thursa.
There must have been a van parked up on the main road (A836), but I never saw it.
He must have still been selling after I started at Thurso High in 1959, because I remember him commenting on my French pronunciation (thank you Miss Macleod, aka 'Cloudy'). After a promising beginning, my French never really blossomed, not even in Canada.
He used to carry the strings over the handlebars of a bicycle, and I remember him having at least one silver tooth.
I'm guessing that he would come in late summer or early fall.
This was in Scarfskerry, and I do not know if he also went to Week or Thursa.
There must have been a van parked up on the main road (A836), but I never saw it.
He must have still been selling after I started at Thurso High in 1959, because I remember him commenting on my French pronunciation (thank you Miss Macleod, aka 'Cloudy'). After a promising beginning, my French never really blossomed, not even in Canada.