Apples for Tom and Ted Slowcoach

“As I was growing up,” emails Fay Thomson of Pittenweem, “my dad used to recite a poem. The words I can remember are: “Apples, apples apples so rosy and red apples for Tim and Sally apples for Tom and Ted.

“I wonder if your readers know the poem and could provide the rest of the words?”

An Angus reader enjoyed recent mention of the railway engine 46464, Carmyllie Pilot, but recalls that she was not regarded as the speediest thing on two rails. An old joke went that the engine was about to pull a train up to Carmyllie one day when the driver noticed a man walking beside the line.

The driver asked if he wanted a lift, only to be told: “No thanks, I’m in a hurry.”

Sir Dingle Foot on the stage in the Caird Hall in 1974 when he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Dundee. Principal James Drever can be seen in the background. Picture: University of Dundee Archive Services.