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The Common Room / Re: Cartoon Maker -
« on: Saturday 01 August 09 11:46 BST (UK) »
What a hoot Dave - before the move to Oz in the 1960s I worked for a stationery company in Edinburgh that made those wee boxes to put a bit of wedding cake in. The factory was split into lots of unions and that particular lot were the boxmakers, not to be confused with bookmakers although they ran a pretty good sweep. The cardboard to make the boxes was delivered by another union from the floor above, one particular lassie had to make the bows to go on the wee boxes and that was a different union again. Just to finish it off, the packers' union gathered up all the wee boxes and put them into bigger cartoons, maybe. No wonder Bettyanne is confused - so was I then! Gillian