FLOAT LIKE a brushturkey, sting like a redback? There are many memories Sione Tuipulotu has of going round his Scottish granny’s house when he was growing up in Australia, but the backyard boxing with his brothers, that stands out. Gran was quite some character…
“Obviously my granny is full-Scottish,” Tuipulotu says. “We spent a lot of time in her house growing up, because Mum and Dad both worked. I’d love for anyone to get an interview with her! She’s not that great with technology and stuff like that, but she’s as Scottish as Scottish can get, and I’m really appreciative for having that time to grow up with her and have her influence on me, because not everyone gets to grow up with grandparents and I’m grateful for my granny.
“The funny thing is, we used to call her ‘Annie’ but her name is actually Jaqueline Thomson. But she’d instil these values in us.
“I can’t remember heaps of them off the top of my head, but sometimes I’d bring my mates from the neighbourhood over to my gran’s
