I was at a big family event in Portadown on Saturday night. Most of oor folk were there. I ended up sitting beside my uncle, Wully Gray.
It was a standard big Ulster sit-down-meal-in-a-church-hall-with-long-folding-tables-and-paper-tablecloths evening. There were about 150 folk there. Mountains of grub that a big team had been making since about 9 o'clock that morning. So we all queued up, filled our plates, and then filled our (ample) bellies. Good packin.
Wully had ate that much he was ready to burst. Then a wee woman came round offering everybody second helpings. He declined her offer, looked at her and said:
It's a gye full barn when ye cannae thresh anither stook at the door.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
My uncle Wully Gray
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2 comments:
Did he say "Door" or "Dure"?
10/1 on it was the latter...only I dinnae bet.
Fair fa' ye!
The best way to double your money is to fold it in two and put it in your back pocket.
that's a good point - it was definitely "door", so Wully must be getting all Anglified!
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