Great great grandma was a Roman

[StealthPolarBear]

We're visiting a Roman Fort tomorrow. My dad has just mentioned that his grandma used to live on the road it's on, before it was excavated.
The kids are bound to go back to school telling everyone great great grandma was a roman, right?
More importantly, will the family connections get me cheap parking? I can park in great grandma's drive, right?

Oh come on someone must be impressed by my family connections? I'll decimate the lot of you!

I thought you meant an ancient roman and got a bit confused. Don’t you have any other relations that are foreign/have lived abroad?

Gave just made myself even more confused. You’re not in Rome? Just next to a Roman fort? In Britain?

If your family originates from the western world, it's almost certainly true!

Kudos for correct use of ‘decimate’.

OP is being lighthearted because great gran used to live on a street where some roman ruins are (before they were excavated). The children now believe GG was roman.

I'll decimate the lot of you!

Only one in ten of us surely?

Maybe you'd have more luck with parking a chariot in granny's drive than a car?

Did GGranny live on Watling Street Stealth?

I opened this thread thinking you meant to type Romany!

DD1 once asked mil if she remembered the Fire of London. Loudly, at a wedding with lots of people to hear.

And do you witchend?!
No apparently or was called Fort Street. I assume that wasn't a coincidence!

When dd was quite young she'd just been learning about evolution at school. She asked lots of questions about it and ended with "so who, in our family, used to be a monkey?"
I really wanted to answer "well, you know your great grandad, well, his aunty, she ahem had a tail"
:o

Are you going to Arbeia by any chance? A big chunk of it was under houses and a school and no body knew for ages...

Yep :o

No she would decimate nine in ten of us!

One in ten surely
But you'll all be in the line

My great something uncle found a very famous roman horde whilst messing about in the river back in the 18th century. It's now in the British museum, pretty sure it belongs to me !

Wow! My (mythical) free parking spot is looking less impressive

Went to see it - it's the Ribchester horde - hung about the display case for a while saying 'it's mine that', nobody took me on !

'Hoard' even

Mil was part of the dig in vindolanda in the 70s and found a shoe. When she told us we were hugely impressed and looking forward to seeing our 'family shoe' on display. We were disappointed to see it was on display in a giant perspex box along with hundreds of others :o

Oh I bet Arbeia will be a really interesting trip, I remember a Mary Beard programme with her hopping around the site....how closely the cavalry lived with their horses....vast granaries etc etc. Have a super day Stealth!