General Chat

All I was saying, as a ginger (pronounced to rhyme with singer with a hard g) myself, was that there was little need to give individual teapots to group of women, the youngest of whom is 63.

YES stop picking on us Gingers and I have two lovely ginger grandsons :-( :-(

Two at the teapot, ginger twins. You have just made me think of my late mum.

Perhaps it originated from a pop at the Celts ;-) :-D :-D :-D

http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/origins_of_red_hair.shtml

I'm a blonde, but we have many shades of red hair in our family including ginger, as did my Illustrious namesake Jemima Nicholas (Jemima Fawr) :-D


btw.... doesn't the young girl, in the painting on the link, have fantastic hair! :-)
well, I think so anyway... I'm a Celt :-D :-D

I was one but not a twin.

Stop picking on us gingers !!! :-)

Never heard of the red head/ginger ones.

Some ‘superstitions’ are sensible, other’s just weird.

It’s unlucky to
- walk under a ladder (something might fall on you)
- open an umbrella indoors ( you might knock something over)
- Put shoes on a table (the soles could be dirty)

Why waste salt throwing it over your shoulder into ‘the devil’s eye’ or ‘Touch wood’ to ward off misfortune.

They’re only lucky or unlucky if you believe in them.

It brought bad luck to any home if a redhead was the first to wish the occupants 'A Happy New Year'.

Ah .... The superstition was known just over the border in Hampshire too.

My mother and her friends would take care that only one poured tea, if they were gathered for an informal chat.

Following on from RMS's thread about superstition. OH and I took the pensioners group which has now dwindled to seven ladies, all in their eighties, out for lunch yesterday. We are the babies of the group in our sixties.

After lunch we ordered tea because we know how to let our hair down and it came in individual pots, one each. I was only thinking that one big pot would have been quite suitable for our group because the danger of any one of us giving birth to ginger twins is extremely minimal.

For those who have not had the benefit of a sophisticated Sussex upbringing, if two of you pour from the same tea-pot, one is sure to give birth to ginger twins. Tried and tested I am sure but, of course, nobody has risked it for many years.