In this warm-hearted, funny, and magnificent portrait, Bob Dewar recalls the community spirit of 1940s Scotland with perfectly balanced nostalgic recollections and glorious illustrations. I don’t think I’ll be replacing them.Soor Plooms and Sair Knees is an hilarious and moving recollection of the writer's childhood in a small Scottish east coast town during the immediate post-war years. Wherever the washing machine has gone, Kenneth appears to have gone with it. There was a dark cavity under the worktop like a missing tooth. Today when I got up a stranger was making breakfast in the kitchen, dressed in a dark orange teeshirt, slim-fit jeans and stripy green socks. Kenneth looked like the pale patch on a duvet cover bleached by the sun, as though all the colour had been leached out of him. Yesterday morning, there was a damp spot by his side of the bed and a trail of drips leading along the landing, down the stairs and into the kitchen. His clothes seemed to fit more loosely, and he was as tense and uptight as a cashmere sweater washed at 90 degrees for an hour. His hair was losing its colour, and his skin was grey and wrinkled.įor the rest of that week random items continued to turn up, including a teeshirt the colour of cinder toffee, size medium, and the other green-striped sock. He slept soundly, oblivious, but in the morning he looked washed out. Sleeveless Tee in Farro Pointelle by Soor Ploom. The crashing and thumping of its escape bid drowned out the sound of Kenneth’s snoring. Plain Rib Sock in Ginger by Soor Ploom - Last Ones In Stock - 8-10 Years. Disclaimer: While we work to ensure that product information is correct, on occasion manufacturers may alter their ingredient lists.Actual product packaging and materials may contain more and/or different information than that shown on our Web site. Soor Plooms Picture: Anne\Flickr Sweet and sour in equal measure Soor Plooms - Scots for 'sour plum' - were a favourite of School children (and many adults) across the country for their. I lay in bed that night listening to the machine waltz its way around the kitchen, bumping into the table on its way to the back door. I unplugged the machine and turned off the water supply. I came down to a kitchen full of warm steam and a pair of damp slim-fit jeans in the drum. Then the washing machine started turning itself on in the middle of the night. That one I secreted at the back of the airing cupboard – after I’d ironed it, of course – ready for the next trip to the charity shop. The kind of shirt he wouldn’t be seen dead wearing. Not in the pastel colours that my husband favours, but a daring dark blue and red stripe with a contrasting white collar. I tucked them away in a pile of my jumpers in case he found them and started asking awkward questions – unlikely, but there’s a first time for everything. Kenneth is a navy briefs man all the way he says boxers make him feel insecure. I stowed it at the back of his sock drawer, on the basis that the other one might turn up at some point.Ī week later it was a pair of purple boxer shorts. The strange thing this time was the presence of the intruder – a single sock, jauntily striped in shades of lime, emerald and olive. Taking them by surprise, the locals pounced upon the gluttonous Southerners, killing them all. One day, a group of local men came across a party of English soldiers busily gorging on unripe wild plums that grew in abundance in the area. Created by New York native, Marissa Buik, Soor Ploom makes sustainable children's clothing with vintage charm from high quality fabrics for kids up to age 10. That in itself is not unusual, but since he is a creature of habit and always buys the same brand and colour it never takes long for a stray to find a new partner. According to local legend, soor plooms commemorate a skirmish that took place near Galashiels in 1337. (4. Soor Ploom is a quintissentially cool kidswear brand hailing from Brooklyn that is simply irresistable. Two months ago one of my husband’s black socks went missing.
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