Plucky

[poliphilo]

The plumber is coming to rip the bathroom apart.

He is replacing the sink and the toilet and the radiator.

At times like this I remember I am British.

My ancestors coped with the Armada, with Boney and the Luftwaffe. I can cope with this.

Comments

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

Hehe, now in America, at my house, I'd probably be freaking out that there's no plumbing :-X

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was freaking out- but I kept it hidden.

The work's finished now and I can relax.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I would never have guessed that you were freaking out.

Well done.

Now it is my turn, but I don't think I will be half so brave and stoic. I'll need to leave the house for the day, I think.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm a Brit, you see. The stiff upper lip is our religion.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I had overlooked that British coolness under fire.

I don't have enough British blood: I'm Scotch-Irish. I think they must be a nervous lot, if I'm any indicator.

And broke. Probably get cheated by plumbers all the time.

We're also gullible, aren't we? Yes.

You're lucky.

But, hold: I have a drop or two of Cherokee running hotly through my veins.

Surely that should count for something when the going gets tough.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Scotch-Irish- ah, that makes you an imaginative Celt.

I'm English as far back as I know. Maybe there's some Hugenot French in there too, but that's only a guess.

My first wife had Cherokee blood, which means my children have it too. Gosh, we're practically related.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

My psychic (remember him?) said I had a Guide who looked just like Cochise standing beside me.

I've never been able to find a photograph of Cochise.

How about that?

I have a bit of British blood, too--my father's mother was a Little.

We're all related, I think, by now.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My first wife's maiden name was Coakley- which is, I think, an Irish name. She came from Elizabethtown Kentucky, which can't be all that far from where you live.

According to the palaeontologists we are all descended from an original Eve who lived in Africa a few million years ago. I like that idea. Even the most bigoted of white suprematists has African ancestors.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Why, yes! Elizabethton is right up the road!

We are all related. I'm convinced of it.