Born into a pack of ginger nuts…

I have just been chinwagging for the last hour about twins. 

I never knew that identical twins were created from the same egg which then divides into two.  I felt like a bit of a moron when I revealed that ignorant nugget of information about myself in the midst of the flow of conversation.  I don’t really know how I thought they were created.  I think it’s amazing now that I’ve been educated about it and I will be smiling to myself in my knowledge when I see a pair of them next. 

I wonder if my ignorance is due to the fact that I went to a convent school… 

The nuns never told us anything about the birds and the bees now that I think of it.  My parents never said a word about it either.  I just kinda found out myself ha!  – I would have preferred it that way anyway because I would have died of embarrassment… 

Anyway the conversation sort of went off in a tangent and we wound up talking about foxy haired people. 

I have been informed that they’re ‘dying out’. 

I come from a family of six fine foxy haired red blooded Irish creatures, complete with white eyebrows and freckles, the lot of them.  I was born with jet black hair then, slap bang in the middle of all the ginger nuts.  They called me the postmans daughter.  No one ever knew me as a Walsh, it was great, I could get away with murder. 

One day, waaaaaaaay back when Taytos were only 9p, I was walking down the road with the ginger nuts.  It was a beautiful Summers day, I remember it well and we heading to a pool in the rocks where we used to swim.  An american couple passed by in the car anyway, stopped suddenly, then quickly reversed.  All I heard was “aoh my god, look at their hair! – Oh wow! freckles too!!!”  as they jumped out with a camera.  They asked us all to sit up on the gate and pose for a picture.  I was asked to step aside out of the picture and that they’d take one of me on my own later, as she wanted to get a picture of the ginger nuts together. 

She proceeded to take a number of photos of all the foxy ones and then she jumped into her car and sped off!  [insert violin music here]…