{"id":4420,"date":"2011-08-30T16:33:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T15:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/08\/30\/everyone-has-a-drunken-uncle-or-in-my-case-several\/"},"modified":"2012-12-06T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:05:08","slug":"everyone-has-a-drunken-uncle-or-in-my-case-several","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/08\/everyone-has-a-drunken-uncle-or-in-my-case-several\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone has a drunken uncle….or in my case several!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today the news is full of Obama\u2019s drunken Uncle being pulled over in his car and telling anyone who would listen, who is nephew is and that \u2018The Whitehouse would sort it out\u2019 Guffaw. What an absolute clinker. As I lay in bed grinning at the cringe making behaviour I began to ask myself hasn\u2019t everyone got a drunken uncle?<\/p>\n

I did. In fact courtesy of my wild Dad I had quite a few. His oldest muckers \u2013 not blood relatives \u2013 his dearest pals – his real family. There are a few still careering round the world causing mayhem but several, including my Dad\u00a0 are no longer with us but have left me with some of the funniest memories.<\/p>\n

Sandy was one of his bestest chums\u00a0 and a favourite bearded warrior. He\u00a0 was a wild bear of a man with a singing voice like Caruso and\u00a0 a laugh that would be picked up on a seismograph.<\/p>\n

When Dad and him got together it was a case of light blue touch paper and retire fast. They sat up late, talking, drinking and entertaining anyone else who could take the pace. They chased me down the high street at the Banchory show with\u00a0 police cones on their head when I was 16 and hormonal and embarrassed just being seen out in public let alone with adult boozers.\u00a0 It took me years to get over it. Teenwolfess.<\/p>\n

As I watch Teenwolf roll his eyes at me 6 times an hour I can only imagine what he would do if I was to revert to the behaviour of his Grandpa. Google Childline. Google Easyjet and get a one way ticket to anywhere fast. Hmmmn\u2026<\/p>\n

So Dad and Sandy were wingmen. From early days dressed in kilts hanging off balconies telling stories to anyone who would listen in France in the late 40\u2019s to wild rugby days in Scotland and at\u00a0 my Dad\u2019s 70th birthday party and beyond\u00a0 they just\u00a0 loved life and lived every minute of it to the fool no I mean to the full.<\/p>\n

Now I\u00a0 regard them\u00a0 as a template for life. Not as a terrible warning but a great example. No whispering, sensible, tight laced, upright, sssshhhhhhhhhhhh type behaviour. A celebration of\u00a0 wild laughing, banjo playing, joke telling, singing, larger than life, bad dancing, FUN. There is a lot of beige in the world. I try not to add to it. In their memory.<\/p>\n

Sandy\u2019s granddaughter stayed with me at the weekend. Her Mum and Dad are a delight but I didn\u2019t really know their daughter as she was brought up down South. The second I met her, the sparkle in the eyes, the quick wit and the zest for life made me realise that sad as it is these great old guys\u00a0 have moved on it gives great comfort to see the elixir of their spirit very definitely lives on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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