Dennis the Menace.

We took a bus ride into town today to finish looking at The Great Scottish Tapestry. As there was a long queue at the entrance, we crossed the road to the cafe in Holyrood Palace for lunch. We had tepid soup and coffee to go with the luke-warm smile from the lady who took our money.

When we returned to the queue, it was only slightly longer than it had been before lunch. We'd both picked up a "Metro" on the bus so we each did the "difficult" sudoku while we were waiting; it wasn't that difficult. The wait to get in wasn't too long and the panels that we saw today were just as good as those we saw on Monday so, all in all, our time was well spent.

Afterwards, we went into their cafe and checked that the coffee and scones were as good as Monday's and I'm pleased to report that they passed muster.

Good as the exhibition is, we do have a few criticisms, Dolly the sheep was not cloned in Edinburgh as stated on the panel, but at the Roslin Institute which is, sadly, just outside Roslin so not even our own village can really claim to be the home of Dolly.

I was also a little disappointed that the Dundee panel contained reference to D. C. Thompson (publisher of "The Beano") but not to its star, "Dennis the Menace," however, he did merit a corner in the panel commemorating Scotland's sad foray into The World Cup in Argentina in 1978 and "Ally's Tartan Army". Dennis is seen here dejectedly kicking a football after his team was knocked out of the competition.
Those of us on this side of The Pond know Dennis as the anarchic hero of the British comic, while over on the other side the same name was given, at about the same time (1951), to the rather better behaved hero of an unrelated comic strip.

I've just back blipped yesterday's entry, "Fern."