@023mjc wrote:
As a teenager my mum would tell me "you can walk into any ballroom, but you don't have to dance". Another favourite of hers was "if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas".
In other words, behave yourself.
Dogs and fleas was one of my mum's too, mjc: mainly when she disapproved of school friends who she considered "tarty"
Dad's - you can't hunt with the hare and with the hounds. (And, strangely, for a man with no previous known religious convictions: only one Man was perfect and He was crucified) So - you can't have it bothways (and we all make mistakes)
