Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Onion Johnies.
Onion Flavoured condoms?
It's a miracle the birth rate didn't nose dive as a result! (Pardon the pun).
Onion Johnies.
Onion Johnies.
I would think they would also have been a common sight further south.
I saw one in Thurso (of all places) about 3 or 4 years ago now. They were going to release the birds later that day IIRC, and they had to fly to places down south like Essex.
I use a pocket watch most of the time.People using pocket watches when it isn't some sort of special occasion.
I have one which I use normally from day to day, and have been praised by older people when they see me with it, so I suppose that one doesn't quite count, but anyway.
... and their bikes have been used to ride the 1200km Paris-Brest-Paris audax ...Woops sorry! I hadn't thought further explanation would have been necessary, I even anglicised it from the more commom 'Ingin Johnie'. This was the name given to the door to door onion sellers who came from Brittany every summer wearing their traditional blue berets and pushing their heavy bikes laden with strings of onions hanging from the handlebars. They got as far north as northern Scotland, so I would think they would also have been a common sight further south.
Obviously they set up a distribution centre to cycle out from every day, but I don't know any details.
I remember my mum telling me that there was an onion seller who used to call in at her village near Oban in the 1920s and 1930s.They were, or so my parents tell me...