Great great grand dad thought of it , Great grand dad earnt it , grand dad reckoned he could carry on with it , dad was spoilt & p 'ed it up against the wall , son signs on the dole .
(and never to excess)
there's a 1st for a ScotsmanMay well have been, except the last bit. The only time I ever saw my Dad take a drink was at weddings or Hogmanay.
I was going to say surely you remembered but I suppose you were only a wee sprog at the time
My ancestors were supposed to have had Claypotts castle and more recently a few of my relations were jute mill owners, I even remember being in Great Uncle George's house as a sprog and wondering in amazement at all the artefacts, my favourite, which would be frowned upon now, was a painted bronze child of colour that you put a coin on his hand, twisted his ear and the hand would move and deposit said coin in its mouth. It was almost as big as me, I would have been about 4 or 5 I suppose.
The other side of my family owned a boat builders yard and others were people of money in far flung foreign parts.
That was the closest we ever got to being monied people
May well have been, except the last bit. The only time I ever saw my Dad take a drink was at weddings or Hogmanay.
Wondered what you was on about till o remember it's a bank holiday.today I went to carboot sale and bought a cup of teaabout a thousand stalls of carboot tat
Until recently I had an Aden cannon sat on top of my locker at work
casings I want to make some shot glasses for an ex mil friend
Until recently I had an Aden cannon sat on top of my locker at work
Well..... go on!!!few good acquisitions today
not me..others
