No but my daughter has a cat that when you tell it no it has to start and argument with you. Never heard a cat that's so vocal.

One last story of when I was a kid. I was staying for the weekend with my Aunt and Uncle at what we called the farm which really only had the old farm house standing but was used in the summer months as a cottage in the country away from the city for Sunday family get togethers. 

I wasn't that old but old enough to be doing stupid things if my chains were off. 

It was a warm night outside and I went to use the outhouse and on my way back I noticed that the moths were all flying around the outside light which didn't have a cover, only the bare light bulb.

My mind went into attack mod and I got the fly swatter from inside the house and went back outside to knock a few off.

I found that even with the fly swatter and my arm extended that I couldn't quite reach them to get a good swing, so there was a small wooden railing around the back deck and I decided to get onto it to be able to have a better reach.

All was going well until I lost my balance on the narrow railing and fell off over the high side which was a 6 foot drop.

That's all I remember until I heard my uncle voice yelling to my aunt that wee Pete had just killed himself which woke me up. 

I had not only dropped the 6 feet but fell on a cement well tile open legged.

Now the guys here will appreciate more when I tell them that from the inside of one knee completely around to the inside of the other and all parts in between had turned not only blue purple but darn near black by next morning.

The tile like above had been left over after the family had dug a new well.

It took over a month for my body parts to turn back to their proper colours.

We've all got that stage in life where bruises take weeks to disappear.

As you get older you become thin skinned and you bruise much easier. 

Was a shock to say the least to look in the bathroom dressing mirror after a bath and see your bag and dong an angry dark purple. I've hated the colour purple ever since.

You've got to use your imagination Tom. Look into the mirror and say.... oil be back.

There are a lot of New Zealanders buried in the huge War Cemetery on Cannock Chase not far from where I live. It was a training camp in WW I, most of the NZ dead were victims of the flu epidemic over the winter 1918/19. All this way, never to see action but to die from flu. 

An event that seems so ridiculous today, public disquiet and a court case for wearing a hat that was too tall. Today you can get away with anything.

"Dogs barked and children shouted".  Would that our riots were so defined.

We want tales of elephants.

We want tales of elephants.

They were the first "tanks" of the day. If Pete was alive back then he would be on one. 

We want tales of elephants.

They were the first "tanks" of the day. If Pete was alive back then he would be on one. 

I can just see him with his bucket and spade now.

An entirely natural assumption.

Don't tell me you're one of the accursed!

If they had been Canadian troops Art they would have got a container and filled it with sand. Then they would pour some gas in and then light it. My father showed me one day at the old farm so that he could boil water for tea for us both.

Do you know how many ships and lives were lost just trying to get that ammo across the North Atlantic and your troops were just wasting it? Hearing this now maybe we shouldn't have bothered.

An event that seems so ridiculous today, public disquiet and a court case for wearing a hat that was too tall. Today you can get away with anything.

Not so Mark ask any of the women that have been beaten and put to death for not wearing there head dress perfectly in Iran.

We want tales of elephants.

They were the first "tanks" of the day. If Pete was alive back then he would be on one. 

Don't be silly, why would they want elephant tails in the first place?

Hey!

Make that two Hays.