Amy K
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I recently made contact with a distant cousin - My Gt Grandads niece, in fact.
She is a lovely old lady and told my loads and loads of really useful and interesting things about the family. She mentioned that my Gt Grandmother had a glass eye. I found this fact amazing, not so much in itself but in that if I had never contacted her I would never ever have known. Anyway, I was really pleased.
So, I rang my Nan and said "Nan, did you know that Grandad's mother had a glass eye?", to which she replied, "Yes, she poked it out with the handle of a saucepan". I was dumbstruck!! Why had my Nan never mentioned it? Apparently, she had forgotten about it.
So, I rang my Dad, a bit jaded but still wanting to share my family tree find. "Dad, did you know your Grandmother had a glass eye?", "Yes, love everybody knows that". Why had my Dad never thought to mention it? Because he took it for granted that evrybody knew.
There's a moral in there somewhere, but I'm too annoyed to look for it tonight.
It make me wonder what other juicy titbits they are keeping from me......
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Amy K
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Ha Ha, That's cheered me up no end.
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I can't figure out how your greatgrandmother poked her eye out with a saucepan though!!! 
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Amy K
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Well, the other lady told me she did it with a bottle!! So I am even more confused!!
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Chris in 1066Land
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Probably fell off the shelf and hit her.
If I remember correct, saucepans were always kept upside down on a high shelf in the kitchen - my grannies were and so were my mums.
If we could get hold of them as kids, we used to put them over our heads as helmets when we were playing at wars.
Chris in 1066Land
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Amy K
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Chris, that's exactley the way my Nan explained it to me, still doesn't explain why the other lady thought she did it with a bottle though!!
Oh yes I forgot to mention... What topped the whole thing off was when I had a little moan to 'im indoors, he couldn't see what all the fuss is about. And I quote "Well it doesn't really matter if she had a glass eye or not does it?".
Well I don't care I'm chuffed I found out about it. Hooray for gossipy old ladies!!!
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My grandmother on my fathers side always used to sit near an open fire in her little cottage in Pudding Bag Lane, Normanton on Soar, Notts, with a bottle of Milk Stout by her chair leg and would continually rub her right hand up and down her right thigh.
I was only 6 years old when she died, but whenever we entered her cottage, her first words were usually "There is an Apple, Orange or Sweet (or whatever)in the top drawer of the sideboard"
When I started to trace my ancestors in 1989, imagine my surprise to find grandmother on the 1891 and 1901 census; working at John Players in Nottingham - Rolling Cigars!!
Explains a lot dosent it as they were always done by hand.
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I know that this contribution may not be pc on a number of counts but I heard once that the best cigars came from Cuba where they were hand-rolled on a virgin's thigh.
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Chris in 1066Land
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Thanks Clincher
When my granmother started straight from school - she was a virgin
So quality must have been the same
eh what!
Chris in 1066Land
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I saw one old baglady the other day doing a roll up on the top of a dustbin lid
Dont suppose its the same though
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