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Jan. 11th, 2014 01:45 pmI will catch up, I swear. But in the meantime, have this.
My mother amazes me sometimes. My parents are classic right-on middle-class bohemians, from fairly posh backgrounds (maternal grandfather was a Tory politician, Dad went to boarding school then Cambridge) who put up Labour flags every election then left over the Iraq war and ID cards respectively.
You would expect an appropriate degree of middle-class guilt over the Empire; my maternal grandmother's father was the governor of a province in Sudan. I mean straight-up colonial overlord. But my mum is like... well. This came up because at lunch we were talking about some of our ancestors and those of Middle Sister's boyfriend.
MUM: do you know what my mum's father did?
LOKIFAN: ( Colonial overlord. )
My mother amazes me sometimes. My parents are classic right-on middle-class bohemians, from fairly posh backgrounds (maternal grandfather was a Tory politician, Dad went to boarding school then Cambridge) who put up Labour flags every election then left over the Iraq war and ID cards respectively.
You would expect an appropriate degree of middle-class guilt over the Empire; my maternal grandmother's father was the governor of a province in Sudan. I mean straight-up colonial overlord. But my mum is like... well. This came up because at lunch we were talking about some of our ancestors and those of Middle Sister's boyfriend.
MUM: do you know what my mum's father did?
LOKIFAN: ( Colonial overlord. )