One Shouldn't Laugh ..... But ....!

Anyone who thinks Genealogy ('Tracing Ye Family Tree') is for dried up old fossils who want to sit in musty Records Offices all day looking for links to aristocracy is completely off planet. Believe me. I know about this. Because, I've been up to my eyeballs in this stuff for years now. It's completely compelling and ye just never know where it'll take ye, or what it'll teach ye next.

And I've just been on a quick tour of the Workhouse's. Grimmest fucking places one could imagine, outside of the Nazi Camps, believe me. And, before ye shrug, sniff and consider such places nothing to do with you? I wouldn't be so smarmy till ye've dug into ye own family history! Only a couple of generations back, things could be a hell of a lot different than today.

Anyway, I've not come here to berate ye. I'm not in that mood. No. My little trip round the hell holes of yesteryear did leave me in tears, in fact. But, suffice to say; It also left my rubber key board running with spat out Stout! I spat the Stout out just before I collapsed into a helpless mess of uncontrollable laughter!

I was looking for some people whose surname began with " Bu... ", see? So, there I am, cruising down these long, alphabetical lists of Inmates names. Concentrating on the later B's, but constantly aware of the categorisations these places put people into. The ones making me start to snigger were; " Idiot ", " Imbecile " and " Lunatic "!

I mean, for fuck sake; It's not bad enough that ye've ended up in there. Now some cunt is arbitrarily labelling ye a fucking " Idiot "! (Ahh, christ! Here I go again! Laughing so hard I can barely see the key board My stomach hurts with it!)

So, there I am, laughing myself into a frenzy about all that ~ yeah; I started tipping the glass a trifle early today. So hot, and it's a sunday ~ when my eye slips off the bottom of the B's and I somehow find myself looking at " Jacob Curtis. Born in Poole. Job; Blacksmith. Condition; Blind!

Sorry. That just did it! Thought of a Blind Blacksmith? How come he wasn't listed as " Lunatic ", or at least " A Complete Fucking Idiot! " as well?!

Oh dear! Now I Must pee!