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Sat 12 Dec 2008The proof is in the pudding
PUDDINGS PIES:IT WAS CHRISTMAS pudding which came close to causing my grandmother to expire from embarassment. She died when I was four - not as a direct result of the pudding episode - and by all accounts she was a bit of a harpie. She had a will of iron, which she shared with her distant relation Admiral Beatty who took no nonsense at the Battle of Jutland and whom she rather alarmingly resembled. She was a bit of a puritan to say the least, writes Tom Doorley.
One day she volunteered to do some shopping for my mother who was about to cook the Christmas puddings. And she was charged with the task of getting the annual pint bottle of Guinness.
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