Dear Juliana,
The ladies at Mannofield Church, Aberdeen, Scotland, plan to print and sell a book in aid of local charities within the next few months. The idea is to find or recall the passing wisdom of our Grandmothers, such as "You are never too old to learn." The title is to be "Grandma's Words of Wisdom."
Contributions from your readers would be appreciated and their work will be acknowledged in the book.
One of my contributions will be this self-explanatory poem;
Little duties still put off
Will end in never-done.
"Bye and bye, is soon enough,"
Has ruined many a one!
Another is; "Elbows off the table!" (A telling off for displaying the table manners of the lower classes!)
And, "Dinna bow the bass." (This being an old Scottish saying combining some Low German words. Literally it means "Do not kick over ["bow" pronounced "boo" and meaning "bend"] the corner of the mat [bass] or you or another could fall over it. Metaphorically, it means something like; "Do not do wicked things inside your own house."
Kind regards, Ron
Ronald_Caseby@email.msn.com
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