My Grandmother's Houses Key Quotations Flashcards

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She is on the second floor of tenement

From her front room window you see the cemetery

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Her bedroom is my favourite

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At night I climb

over all the newspaper parcels to get to bed

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What does she want with anything modern,

a shiny new pin?

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The sideboard solid as a coffin

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The new house is called a high rise

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She makes endless pots of vegetable soup

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8
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finally she gets to like the hot running water

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My parents do not believe. It is down to her

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10
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until the next time God grabs me in Glasgow with Gran

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even at 70 she cleans peoples houses

for ten bob

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Room’s leading off like an octopus’s arms

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the posh one

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14
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I see her

like the hunchback of Notre Dame

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Sit up straight

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16
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From her living-room you see the ambulances,

screaming their way to the Royal Infirmary

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