BOAB

Building work From left, Steven McCreight, James McMahon and Boab Williamson

The newspaper said it had called on local authorities to take measures against Boab, but they had responded indifferently.

Come shoot's end, Bolten-Boshammer gave her famous tenant a diamond encrusted 18-carat gold pendant in the shape of a boab tree.

Come shoot's end, Bolten-Boshammer gave her famous tenant a diamond-encrusted 18 carat gold pendant in the shape of a boab tree.

Come shoot's end, Bolten-Boshammer gave her famous tenant a diamond encrusted 18 carat gold pendant in the shape of a boab tree.

7 November 2005: Jack Wherra's boab nut carving as historical narrative

He says: "When an Aborigine woman was pregnant they would dig a hole and line it with boab flowers so the woman could give birth in it.

Stephen McCole is Boab, a shiftless loser who, in the space of a single day, gets the elbow from his football team, gets dumped by his girlfriend, told to find h is own place by his parents, fired from his job and, having taken his frustration out on a telephone kiosk, beaten up by the police.

Boab Coyle loses his place on the football team, gets kicked out of home, loses his job and gets chucked by his girlfriend all on the same day.

"So within this particular quest for his bucket, we get to meet all our iconic characters, Fat Boab, Wee Eck, Soapy Soutar, PC Murdoch, Maw, Paw and even the school bully Basher McKenzie."

A visually impaired Wullie, who says "Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab" if you press his button, has been created by pupils at Edinburgh's Royal Blind School

JINGS, crivens, help ma boab, the 25th world porridge-making crown has gone to Sweden for the second year on the trot.