Ive given my kids various stories. Told my sons I was on a motor bike coming out of Skeg, it was late at night & throwing in down. There walking on the edge of a dark road was their Mother struggling with a bale of hay on her back..........I gave her a lift & we took it from there.
Our daughter..........Ive told her, I was on the beach in Skeg & her Mother was walking along flogging toffee apples, I called her over & grabbed a toffee apple off her, only for her to say, "that's not a bloody toffee apple".......& we took it from there.
Truth is, she was my mates Aunty visiting her sister here in Solihull........and yes, we really did take it from there.