Jerry Wells

That was a humiliating moment.

Damn.

Poor old Shirley grandma.

Would have brought you closer together, wouldn't it?

It did bring us closer, but it was not good, I've got to say.

Luckily, I'd been in hospital for two weeks on morphine before that.

Right.

So there wasn't a lot of need.

Well, back in the day, you would have the jam on the table at breakfast, for example, in a pottle.

It would be moved from the jam container to a pottle, and then you would spoon it out with a teaspoon from the pottle onto your plate, and then you'd go plate onto toast.

Well, that was on the back of the great shoveling debate from 84.

And that was when my brother and I were caught shoveling just one too many times in 1984.

And my dad realized he had to shut this down quick.

Right.

So he came in with a nuclear option.

I think he'd been away somewhere and he'd come back and my mum had gone lax on the manners.

And he'd come back, and he was shocked at how far standards had slipped.

Was it a wrap on the knuckles?

I never used it.

It was just a threat.