This site is for the Mark & Naomi Iliff family. For Mark’s work persona go to Talespinner
A day that’s raining stair-rods (cats & dogs, the devil & pitchforks, bullfrogs or your own regional expression to taste)
Mum always attributed this euphemism to Dad’s Irish family, though she seems to have been the only one to have heard it
Mum – 1940s?
Pauline Iliff (Dixon) – mother of Mark, JM, G & Bel