The Mum and Gran...
If I were to paint a little picture for you of my early life it would be trips to South Wales to see my Great Aunt and her extended brood who still inhabited 'The Valleys'.

It was during these trips that I inquired as to my Great Aunt's life, to be told she was quite a larrikin in her youth, and had married into fame.

"Fame? Really?" "Oh, yes little one..." they said, 'she was married to a famous singer."

"A singer? Really?" "Oh yes, little one, even you may have heard of him, he is called Tom Jones, however they divorced before your birth!"

I was as proud as punch. And for years I would tell all and sundry that I was related, by marriage, to Tom Jones.

However, as I hit puberty, Tom Jones had fallen into disrepute, no-one had heard of post-ironic support for his ilk and I denied him. Yes, dear reader, I denied him like Doubting Thomas would have done to Jesus Christ our Paviour.

Luckily, in my twenties, he played Glasto, snogged Kylie, had pants galore thrown at him and even Justin Lee Collins snuffling his arse. I could embrace my Great-Uncle-By-Marriage, now divorced, once again...

Until, a few years ago, someone told me he'd been married to the same woman for fuck-knows-how-many years and had never been divorced.

Drat you Mummy and Nana, drat your lies.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 18:32, 4 replies)

It was Peter who denied Christ
three times before the cock crowed.

[/theology lesson]
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 18:47, closed)

Tom Jones
Ya know, I've never really figured out what it is that is so sexy about him?! But for whatever reason, he is so damned fun!

XOXO
(ThatGirl The Girl Formerly Known as A-man-duh, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 19:13, closed)

@Stu
Bum. Never mind eh?
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 19:42, closed)

@ Thatgirl
And he's my unc...

Bum.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 19:42, closed)