HERE are a couple of laughs from my grandson, Daniel, aged seven.

Recently, he and his twin sister, Lindsay, were visiting us and they enjoy freshly-cracked nuts. Watching me crack the sometimes almost-impossibly hard almond shells, Daniel said: "Grandad, them wood nuts are hard to crack, aren't they?"

When they visit us, our grandchildren always go to look at my beehives at the far end of the garden and recently when returning to the house, as they came through the doorway, we heard Daniel telling Lindsay in an authoritative voice: "Bees won't sting you if you don't oin 'em."

'Oin ' being a very old fashioned word, we wondered where he got that one from.

ALBERT MORRIS, Clement View, Nelson.

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