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S Viemeister[_2_]

On 7/8/2014 6:20 AM, wrote:

> Before we came here we lived in Portsmouth (UK) for a couple of years.
> I remember in season the French men who came across the channel with
> their bikes and loads of onions. They called them Spanish onions and
> went door to door selling them. They were lovely, the stems had all
> been plaited together and you could hang them in the cool of the
> larder and cut one off when you needed them.
>
Ing'in Johnnies! My Gran's house must have been one of the first stops
after Leith - the bike was almost invisible under the strings of onions.