We're not tight, we're careful due to a history of proud people of limited means
Come up for a visit at hogmanay and you'll find we can be distressingly generous!
(Anyone who's "done" hogmanay as a guest/visitor to a small highland/NE fishing village will explain the tightrope of tactical drinking and good manners that are required if you wish to survive even as far as the bells...
) of course you could just be ignorant and refuse an offered drink... but then you'd learn what "black affronted" really means! (and not be invited back
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Do it right though and you get a standing invitation, and that is a thing to be guarded and cherished
I'm sure Bill and Andy will concur
I really must go back up to Cullen in a few years once the liver damage subsides...
Now the antipodeans... well I wouldn't be the one to cast aspersions, but.....
