My Father’s Sayings

My Dad, like most Dads, had a large stock of well worn sayings and phrases. I never questioned their wisdom or provenance until I was older and had started using some of them myself. Many of them were mangled Brynaman Welsh, I have spelt them as he said them.

“Who do you think I am, Carnera?”
Said whenever my mother put an over large portion of food in front of him. I later discovered he was referring to Primo Carnera a six…