Hints and tips:
...Morrison-Ignatieff — who gilded the sword’s thistle-design hilt and grip, as well as its pommel cap and scabbard mounts — has a 200-year-old wooden box in his workshop, three floors above Glasgow’s Argyll...
...Grossart took a lucrative stake in the Wood Group, the oil services firm, and backed entrepreneurs such as Kwik-Fit’s Sir Tom Farmer, Stagecoach’s Sir Brian Souter and banker Benny Higgins....
...Brian Ellis, owner of Avondale, has loved plants since his youth....
...Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet, in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, describes the strike as a “reidreid rose” that “shrivelled suddenly/As a balloon is burst”....
...I ordered for a nightcap the dry, hoppy Golden Thistle Very Bitter Ale, purportedly first made by mistake. The menu actually likens it to “chewing on a thistle”. How could I resist?...
...Meanwhile graphics of iguanas, thistles, insects and pineapples are among Timorous Beasties’ less contentious, yet still off-beat, imagery....
...Holly lives with her parents, King and Queen Thistle, and a pet ladybird, Gaston, who barks. In its droll, slightly unconventional humour it is similar to Peppa, just a touch more sophisticated....
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