The Swear Were Bloody

I think i was introduced to words by my parents, both of whom had a love of words. My father was a lawyeran old school lawyer, born in 19 hundred and ten. So he was virtually an edwardian. He loved telling stories about old school lawyers. And the play on words, i remember hearing this whenywas little boy and thinking, oit's so clever. I have to just interpolate something there, which is, you know, drunk as a lord. Ye. It used to be drunk as a blood. Bloods being kind of rowdy aristocrats in the eighteenth centuries who would go out and paint the town, read, sometimes literally. They were