Wedding. Parents try to plan marriages to friend with other lineages, however, deals is actually turned over going-betweens. Bride-pricing is repaid from the groom’s father together with latter’s descent friends and may also cover extended deals having repayments extending more many years; there’ll also be annually otherwise a couple of bride to be-solution.
A darker Domain name (Karen Pirie dos) by Val McDermid
Once the miners‘ struck out of 1984 pulled to your, the new miners in addition to their parents was in fact increasingly eager, counting on contributions from food out of sympathisers and you can get together timber to own strength. Several miners on the Fife village of Newton regarding Wemyss secretly left that morning and come up with its solution to Nottingham, where the pits got re also-unsealed, spent some time working from the guys who had been sensed traitors – scabs – because of the dudes of one’s Federal Relationship away from Mineworkers.