16-01-2018, 05:13 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
All my long distance travelling was done in my sleep, I’m not a good traveller in the flesh.
I stopped off in Thailand on the way home from Sydney and brought back a few nice ties, got a lovely laptop when I was in Lapland, if you like pot holing there are plenty of pot holes in Rhodes.
I didn’t like the birds in Turkey so we had a roast beef that Christmas if my memory serves me right.
My granny once said that if you told a lie and it wasn’t expected to be believed then it wasn’t a lie, like an ugly comedian would say on stage “On my way here today I met a beautiful blonde lady and she invited me back to her flat…” or a politician when he says you will be better off when you vote for him, only a fool would believe that, you are not expected to believe it but he’ll say it anyway in order to achieve his aims
She should never have said that while the brother and me were in earshot, as kids this opened up a whole new field of excuse composing for the pair of us.
“Why didn’t you pair clip the hedge before you went off swimming?”
“Well Nan when we said we would do it we didn’t expect you to believe it”
“You said you’d be in for your supper at 9 it’s 10 now”
“Ah well you were not expected to believe it”
On and on we went until she got so fed up with it that called us together and in a stern voice said “Listen here good me boyo’s, from now on a lie is a lie and that’s it, got it?’
We got it. It was a short lived but enjoyable episode in a boys life.
God rest her soul, she had the patience of Job, a truly remarkable woman, I never forget her.