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5th January 12, 09:08 AM
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Re: Your Kilted Grandfathers (or Other Grandfather Influences)
I think this is a wondeful tribute to Granfathers in general.
My Paternal granfather was a Yorkshire farmer.
He always wore a tweed suit and a weskit..plus a tye even in sweltering weather.
He was very victorian in his mannerismes and a thorough gentleman.
Mind, if someone was a bloody fool, he was likely to tell them so!
Some of his sayings have stuck with me; (he died in 1970)
"When it's fair, take a coat.....When it's raining please yourself!"
"There's No such word as "Can't" !"
If when working on a project in the workshop, and he asked how it was going, and the reply was "It'll do" ,
He would take the piece of work and throw it under the bench in the scrap, and say, "There's no "It'll do's"....It's either Right or Wrong!"
No half measures with him.
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