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oh and a bit more to add about the whole thing...at around 7 years old...I can remember grandma clayton at 'hill house, combs'...chatting to me by the coal shed, next to the house...about her neighbours in that cottage next door...apparently he had been a sailor from Norway....she then told me that 'little green men' lived there, she was laughing and whispering as she did so....I was to laugh too...and then reply that surely little green men came from Ireland, didn't they? well, no...apparently from Norway too....I had been thinking about leprechauns and asked grandma about them...no, not leprechauns.....

...what else? well grandma clayton used to use those tins...featured in the Julia child programme...she was always baking...and funnily enough...she used to have that 'sing song' way of speaking too....I have no idea where she picked it up from...but that is what she used to sound like, most of the time...it was grandpa clayton who had retained his Lancashire-man dialect...what else? well remember how little gill used to love helping his mother out in the kitchen - whilst in 'martine' alter? well uncle bobby used to do the same...grandma clayton used to say that he had been such a good boy...always helping her around the house...and there is something a bit 'Julia child' about uncle bobby, too...but it is more difficult to put my finger upon it..."ambi" replies BI ONLINE...