The family tree

Have you found anyone interesting in yours? I've just found the reason for my limp. Two great uncles were clog fighters

I doubt any member of my past family would have been as educated as me.

Haha educated & can't spell for peanuts !

Oh dear he does leave himself wide open for ridicule doesn't he.

another thread ruined

By you telling lies

There's a clear pattern

I agree, i-spy, its as if they're joined at the hip

I bet you feel like following in your great uncles’ footsteps, I-Spy.

Yes, please do and clean the site out.

They used to doo a lot of clog fighting in Scholes, and these clog fighters used to have jobs as horse handlers, because in those days, folk would own a horse, the same way that folk own cars now, so the equivalent a car mechanic today, would be a horse handler back then, so a problem was how to make a horse behave, nowadays they refer to making a horse behave and become compliant by 'breaking it in' now I don't know what they called the process back then, but the way they used to do it, was that these hard men would strip off naked, and then they would kick these horses up and down Scholes, and that is where clog fighting came from, two naked men, with only their clogs on, would hold each other's arms, and they would kick each other in the shins.

You've got to laugh...can I borrow some clogs Jo Anne.

Bet that was a pretty site TTS

Mind boggles

I think they were actually called 'horse kickers'

Sorry I-Spy, I only wore clogs as a little girl to try to get rid of my pigeon toe.

I was a bright spark

You were lucky, I-Spy. I remember Anne mentioning she always wanted irons on her clogs. (Nov’19)

we couldn't afford clogs.I just had the irons glued to my bare feet.

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I was a bright spark

Me too

My family tree goes way back. I'm a British/Irish/Black/Norseman from Dubai also with roots in Bethlehem. It's me birthday on the 25.

Shalom.