Bless Your Little Cotton Socks: Beyond the Quirky Sayings of My Eccentric Scottish Mum

In this delightful essay collection that reads like a memoir Diane Radford draws the reader into the enchanting world of her parents -- her mother Margery, and her long-suffering father Sidney. Margery had a way with words -- she was never lost for them. Recalling her mum's unique turns of phrase, Diane found herself beginning her own sentences with "as Margery would say," followed by one of her mother's pithy comments. She never realized how much her mother differed from other mothers unti...