| Scottish brands taking their place at the festival include Drygate Brewery, Thistly Cross Cider, Pickering's Gin, Barney's Beer and Wemyss Malts. |
| Thistly Cross Cider have asked for donations from homes across Scotland, as well as from large apple orchards. |
| In this valley there were the most beautiful flowers, mallows, chrysanthemums, and thistly plants. |
| It's a dreich and miserable place, a landscape of abandoned fridges and cookers, a windswept, unkempt, thistly moor. |
| From bisque through to misty rose and fuchsia, the strangely lobed petals with their cryptic loop, wiggle and spot marks in thistly script, were telling a story. |
| Perhaps it was the thistly food he ate which had an effect upon his temper and made him the awkward creature he had grown. |
