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_The bee’s knees and
Merry Christmas one and all! Or Bah _We’ve got Front
the bees in bonnets this month…
Humbug, whichever takes your fancy!
December is a month when the ever present Chris Hammond interviews HK119 and
spectre of Christmas is hard to avoid; ponders how to live through the 12 days of _Knees:
personally I love it. Call it regression into Christmas. David Hynes explores Scotland’s
childhood if you want, but even the run up worst football grounds and the usual jiggery Storyteller by Marshall Cavendish
to a summer holiday doesn’t come close to pokery you’ve come to expect! This cult product was massive in the early ‘80s; a series
the run up to Christmas. of magazines and tapes depicting some of the best loved
children’s stories in history including Gobbolino the Witche’s
This month we’ve tried to cater to both _Style Cat, The Snow Queen and Captain Bones. The stories were
camps, The Joy To The Worlds and The read by people such as Joanna Lumley and Tim Curry who
Grinches. We’ve got the usual mix of Scott McGinlay shoots Florence To’s brought it all to life. Impossible to find these days, unless you
fashion, music, interviews, issues and daft delectable designs, Caitlin Rattray bemoans have one squirreled away in an attic somewhere, but there is
things to keep you amused and as always, the Christmas party, Eleanor Capaldi hits a Yahoo group dedicated to the series where you can buy the
we value your feedback, so get in touch and Delmonica’s Drag Idol, Russian style, whole think digitised. Hurrah!
let me know what you think. Scotcampus Icon, Skeletor, the measure
and much more. Christmas Craft
We’re still looking for writers to join the Thinking of cheap, but still good presents is difficult, but once
Scotcampus stable, so if you’re interested you tap into your creative reserves you’ll find that it becomes
email me at jade@scotcampus.com with _Substance really easy to make gifts that people will actually like. So what
some ideas and we’ll talk. if it’s a paint-by-numbers you did on your own one night while
The usual mix of comment and current drunk? All those mixed up colours and mistakes will make it
So, once again, let me wish you all a very affairs from Fraser Gibb, Kris Murray look like a true work of art, and if nothing else, the recipient will
merry Christmas and a happy New Year and Browne, Tery Sawyers, Chris Hammond and have a good laugh!
look out for our next issue which hits the Graeme Allister.
stands February ’09. Wrapping Up
All this cold weather is a great excuse to wear five scarves and
Jade
_Music not look a complete prat. Mix the textures; a chunky wool, a
floaty silk, a skinny sequin, a cashmere…Makes for a cozy,
Interview with the King King Thing, Dylan individual look that will keep you from getting the dreaded cold.
Publishers: G Barratt & A Purdie Webster’s rather vitriolic look back at a year
Editor: Jade Halbert in music and Stephen Walsh is dreaming of Tea
Design: fourtwentyseven design a silent Christmas. Is it just me or has everyone been drinking 15 cups of tea a day
www.0427.co.uk lately? I’m not talking about fancy shmancy elderberry infusion
or anything, I mean proper Tetley tea. Seems I can’t stop
Editorial: jade@scotcampus.com _The Good Life drinking it. I’ve even taken to making actual pots of the stuff.
Advertising: adverts@scotcampus.com Bizarre.
Tel: 0141 204 2042 Joanna Bolouri ponders the Single Season,
Fiona Kircaldy goes burlesquing, David
Hynes explains his retox rationale and the _Bonnets:
ins and outs of global dating.
Driving
Drivers need to calm the eff down. In the last week I’ve
_The Backside alternately been almost pushed into the on-coming traffic, been
involved in a pile up on the Kingston Bridge, crashed into a
The Big Quiz, the Status Quote and for one stupid cow who did a u-turn without warning (or slowing down
month only Caroloscopes! at all) and crashed head on into a lorry. Now some of you might
think that this shows I’m a bad driver. Not so. I am in fact the
best driver in Scotland. It’s everyone else who has the problem!
_Contributors:
Ugg Boots
Chris Hammond, Chris Duncan, Stephen I say this every year, but come on. I know they’re comfortable,
Walsh, Helen Waddell, Tanya Bennett, Mia but they literally act as sponges. Imagine the contents of ten
Mai, Lerato, Dylan Webster, Alan Hazlie, puddles swishing about your tootsies. Not pleasant, eh?
Kris Murray Browne, Josef Donovan, Fraser
Gibb, Graeme Allister, Fashion Skeletor, Credit Crunch (again)
Caitlin Rattray, Tery Sawyers, Jenny Soep, Really starting to be a bore.
Jonathon Daniels, Joanna Susskind, Eleanor
Capaldi, Ben Carpenter, Andrew Burns, Baking Cakes from Previously
Add Scott McGinlay, Fiona Kirkaldy, Igor Lauded Cookery Tomes
Termenon, Joanna Bolouri, fourtwentyseven Not as easy as it looks. Several mini
design. house fires confirm this.
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