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by StewL » Tue May 01, 2007 8:44 am
Speaking of spookey wifeys. I was just thinking about what our lang deid punters would think of these folk that try to contact them.
I was thinking of my ggggreat uncle Wullie and what his thoughts might be. Standing around in the hereafter bletherin with his mates about the comings and goings (okay not too much of the goings).
Wullie was bletherin aboot a game of darts he was having with his gggreat uncle Tam, and how he wished that Tam widnae yell like a banshee whenever it was his turn to throw a dart, as well as wishing he widnae use those yon things that look like dirks whenever he had a turn, as it made it hard to see if he actually got a bullseye or a 25. And it was all this yelling and screaming that got all them shifted to further out than they were, put next to those native folk that yell something like come at ye come at ye and poke their tongues out every time its their turn to throw a dart. But he says their no bad company anyway. But back to the spookey wifey’s. Wullie was bletherin aboot young Alec who was sitting playing dominoes with some pals frae some new war, they called the Western Front or the Somme, Wullie wis saying he isnae sure which one cos they huv so many names for it like Paschendale, or Gallipoli an he’s no sure if it is the same wan. Wullie was also saying that it was a busy time around then, with so many of them coming up, they were like midges in the summer time, even the epidemics of the 1800's wis quiet compared to this time. But wee Alec wis playing wi his pals Jimmy, Davie and a wee boy he didnae know what his name wis, only that he was jist a wee laddie. When suddenly there was a loud chapping as Alec wis about tae chap himself, and the four of them nearly fell oot of their seats but luckily that couldnae happen here. It was wan of them spookey wifeys trying to contact wan o the four playing dominoes, and then they realised it was fur Davie. Somebody wis trying to find oot who Davies parents and grandparents were, but Davie said it didnae matter tae him because his mither and faither split up when he was a wain and it was a distant aunt that raised him and his sisters, and their names were different from those of his parents. He was laughing and saying his grandparents never merried either and each went off with a different person wi the same first name and family name. Anyway, It was then that Wullie thought he could make this spookey wifey’s heid birl, he could tell her some stories aboot her twa gggreat aunties Jeannie and Agnes, now they were two lively lassies, but he thought naw, let her live on thinking they were from such great families and stock, will she get a shock when she gets here, and that she’s no related to lord such and such, and that her gggreat aunties weren’t missionaries, they never got further than the Glasgow docks.
But Wullie was also saying that its those folk that use the spookey wifey’s that makes him laugh the most, he said don’t they realise we spent a lot of effort not registering wains and marriages, and jist to turn around and tell some descendant all about us is a joke, let them wait and find out aboot oor families like the rest of us did.
Ye see its no the peace and quiet you’re disturbing up there it’s the companionship from far and wide that is being disturbed, and they’ll no tell you anything anyway even if you ask.
Stewie
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