<He was an MP, and perhaps he liked a stroll on Clapham
Common or Hamstead Heath when in London
Oi, I wus born and went to school on Clapham Common !
Well, not actually ON the common ................
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Keates" <steve(a)s-ckeates.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <GLAMORGAN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 4:36 PM
Subject: nightcaps and lentils
HI All
It is amazing what goes on when your back is turned. Off line for a day
and
what a bumper bundle of entertainment to download. Beats genealogy.
What
an
irrepressible list this is. Also true historians all we can't
keep off
food. Mothers milk and all. And cobblers about footwear. And who is
this
Queen our languge is said to belong to?
Diane's suggestion re the nightcap was, I thought, as reasonable as any,
but
alternative ideas relating to the nocturnal behaviour of Mr Mackworth
seem
equally attractive. He was an MP, and perhaps he liked a stroll on
Clapham
Common or Hamstead Heath when in London.
I can never think of nightcaps without the quote from the play Julius
Caesar
where Cassius discussing Caesar's epilepsy with the plotters
refers to
Caesar having the 'falling sickness' and how he nearly fainted in front
of
a crowd :
......and the vulgar did offer up their sweaty nightcaps and utter such a
deal of stinking breath that Caesar fair swooned.'............
AS for the sixties and lentils I don't remember much about this
time...........
Keep on truckin'
Steve
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