katyjay

How about 'A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat, a finger of fudge is just enough until it's time to eat. Full of Cadbury's goodness and very small and neat, a finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat. Any fruit gums and fruit pastilles in tubes. There was a round caramel in tubes too, I loved them. Fruit gums lasted forever as they stuck to all your back teeth! Aniseed balls were a cheap buy, by the quarter. Same for mint imperials. Fry's Turkish Delight. Yuk, couldn't stand the stuff [neither could I stand soft centered chocs in a box] Fry's Peppermi

I forgot about bonfire toffee, my dad made it every Nov 5th, along with peanut brittle. Remember Mars bars were huge? I remember paying 3d for one. What about Caramac, I loved that one.

I don't know if this has been touched on before, but here goes. When I was a kid, I'd eat liquorice imps, spanish root, flying saucers, kali [you wet your finger and dipped it in] tuffy fags, 1d liqourice [pipe, shoelaces, catherine wheel, all lovely and soft] Anymore, anyone?.

That reminds me of 'if wit was s**t, you'd be constipated. Also, if he fell in a barrel load of s**t, he'd come out smelling of scent.

If you had something wrong with something and she didn't think anyone would see it, she'd say 'a blind man on a galloping hoss won't notice'

If you got caught picking your nose, she'd say 'quit unpacking your trunk'

How about 'all mouth and no trousers' and, 'if you don't behave, I'll seperate you from your breath'

A few more my mam said. All done up like a dog's dinner She'd got a face like the back of a tram smash Better than a smack round the chops with a wet kipper It's a bit parky outside She was as fat as a bacon pig He's gone there and back to see how far it is

I'd forgotten that one, Dodie.

And 'you little bleeder'

Caz, my mam said both those things too!

I can't remember my dad having any sayings, but he did call his nose his ookumsnifter. He also used to ask me to pull his finger! I thought it was so clever when he let one rip. [well we didn't have a telly then, so, easily entertained] He did use quite a few words picked up in India and Burma during the war. The newspaper was the coggage, to look was to take a dekko. Also he called rice pudding, chinese wedding cake.

Another saying she had when asked where something was 'Dahn nutter cutter, where they hoss-shoe pigs.

If you don't behave yoursen, I'll knock you into next week. If ever we couldn't find anything, and asked where it was, she'd say 'up my a*se, on top shelf.

Our rum stick a bum wasn't as dangerous as the school playing ground one. I remember that 1 person bent over and grabbed the fence, another ran up behind and jumped on their back [much like mounting a horse!] then someone else bent down behind, hanging on to the first person, and so on. I can't ever remember forming a pyramid. Who remembers conkers? Lethal little buggers, they were. We used to either soak, or boil them in vinegar to make that like concrete. I used to close my eyes when the lads tried to whack mine, as I knew my knuckles were in for it.

I remember them. 5 pastel coloured cubes. You used to throw so many up in the air, and pick up the rest from the ground and catch the lot. I had a diabalo as a kid, anyone remember those? And a yo-yo that I could never do tricks with.

In the winter, the locals lads would get a tin can, poke holes in it, put string through 2 at the top, then fill it with bits of paper and wood, light it and swing it round. We called it a winter warmer. We'd also get 2 cans, put 2 holes near the top, tie string in a loop, and walk on them, holding onto the string. I think there was also a game called Bulldog.

My mam also used the word Rammel, for anything junky. We'd also put the sneck down at night on the front door lock. My husband who came from the Carlton rd area, his mum never heard of sneck before. My parents came from Basford, maybe it was a word used there.

Yes, we played that too. Also played Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball. What time is it Mr. Wolf. Whip and top, around pancake day [chalk your design on the top]. Rump stick a bum, here I come. Leapfrog. Two balls up against a wall, always reciting a rhyme while you did this. Skipping rope. [again reciting a rhyme] Hedge hopping. Hide and seek. Spirit tapping.

Just look at the back of your neck, I could grow potatoes in that muck.

Every now and again, something happens to remind me of things my parents, especially my mam, used to say all the time. At the time, we never thought them peculiar, they were always there in conversation. For instance, if you were going out, she'd say 'Have you got your gasmask?' and you'd reply, yeah, I've got it on. I guess this harked back to the war years, but we kept it up for years afterwards. Any more sayings?

I worked at Raleigh from Jan 62 to July 67. I was in the Gradual Payments dept, in the computer room. I was a punch card operator there. My first 3 months were in the training school on Lenton Blvd, then down to Triumph Rd for the rest of the time. Anyone else work there? Kath

Back again. Ooo it were luvly. Flippin' 'ot and muggy, but it beat the snow we came back to. I'm still feeling the rock of the ship, I need to get me land legs back again.

Thanks Caz. I hope it's warmer too Mick. It's supposed to snow here either tonight or tomorrow, 12 inches they say. We are getting the ship in Houston and going down to Belize, via 3 ports in Mexico. So hopefully it will be much warmer down there. I can but hope. Kath

Just in case anyone asks me something and I don't answer, it's because I'll be gone from the 12-20th. I'm going to float on a boat for a bit. Be back in circulation on the 21st. TTFN Kath