My Grandad
Lovely old racist, fervantly anti-catholic to the extent of once cornering the local councillor in the street sometime in the 60's and telling him in no uncertain terms to stop moving catholics into his street, and supporting any football team playing against Italy or Ireland (I don't think he realises that there are other catholic nations). However, his brother married a catholic & if any of his family come round it's like a visit from royalty, anyone he knows from the bookies or plays dominos with, any of my friends or my girlfriend are also exempt from this? Go figure?

Since retirement he decided that he has spent his working life getting up early so never rises till 10, the only problem with this is that he doesn't need that much sleep so has to stay up till 3 or 4 in the morning to achive this.

Spends most of the day in the bookies of in front of Channel four racing (interesting sidenote is that although he will have nothing to do with technology and doesn't understand anything invented post war it took him 5mins to figure out how to use teletext when my dad told him he could get the racing results). Spies of the guys from the chinese resaurant to the extent of digging their slips out of the bin when they lose to see how much they bet?

Any time anyone from our family travels anywhere he looks up all the bad things that can happen in that country or failing that goes on hearsay. Although a committed socialist was convinced that Fidel Castro was going to lock me up when I went to Cuba, reason JFK didn't like him. Anyone goes to spain they will get mugged, reason my gran got mugged there in the early 80's!

Sorry for the length, (insert cock joke)
(bugger-luggs, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 20:04, Reply)