... 1,411 Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 My mum would say kids who'd have um ,her obviously she had 6. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,283 Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Without backtracking on this thread - "lamb dressed up as mutton" was a favourite of my mam. Also - "wot if y get runnover"? in reference to dirty or torn underwear. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Yer not greedy - you just like a lot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 My paternel grandmother to my mother "Andrew(me) likrs soup because he dosn't have to chew it" Almost certainly true. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted November 7, 2014 Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 If someone understood something, 'The penny's dropped', reference I think to when viewing ended on the old 'What The Butler Saw' machines. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted November 8, 2014 Report Share Posted November 8, 2014 Just remembered another one which has probably been mentioned elsewhere. When surprised - 'My Giddy Aunt'! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 8, 2014 Report Share Posted November 8, 2014 You've got eyes bigger that your belly.? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 All those words, Caz, were in our house too. Also my mum would call your head, your juff, like shift your juff. It was like living in another country, in our house! If she had a cold and a constantly running nose, she'd yell 'rot the snot' And also 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse between 2 breadvans' Or I cud eat n'oss hoofs n'all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 Mi mam used ta say yerrent got the sense yawa born wi My mum and gran always said this to the girls before they went out at night " keep yer hand on yer hapeny" Has anyone posted this one yet ? " you'll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute" My dad used say to my sister if she was going out in a short skirt " your'e not gooin owt dressed up like a dogs dinner" My Gran used to send me to corner shop for things and she would say "teller to purrit on book" which she paid at weekend. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,283 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 I don't know if this is pure Nottingham speak but when eating a doorstep I was asked "eya gorra bad and"? I assumed it was because the doorstep made my hand look bandaged. Anyone else heard this one? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
richonmc1 8 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 Have we had this one ? My grandfather's excuse for not having a kick about was that he'd got a bone in his leg. And I really believed it was an ailment ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 They use 'me duck' all along the Trent Valley . From Crewe, through Stoke, Rugely ,Burton etc .It's one of the only things I say to folk round here and they understand what I mean Hi Beefsteak, I have heard it used in Manchester too which got me thinking???? Manchester,Crewe,Stoke,Burton and Nottingham this would be a route taken by the Fellows Morton & Clayton narrow boats bringing tar oil along the Trent and Mersey Canal to Nottingham, the boat people would have seen loads of ducks on the way. Who knows someone might have seen a duck and said "ayup mi duck" and it stuck as a greeting. Another saying you often hear is "tar very much" meaning thank you, but it could have been used when the boatman got his measure chitty after loading up with tar. I'm sure some history buff will put me in mi place but it meks ya scratch yer ed dunnit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 jackie bells was a rough pub in netherfield, see elsewhere Mick, Jackie Bells was only rough if you wanted it to be, they used to do tremendous beef and dripping cobs back in the days when I worked in Bournes Mill. It was also a Notts County stronghold. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Always hoped I'd got a rich relative somewhere. Blankets ??? Don't think we had those. Just an old eiderdown with our coats piled on top. And no central heating or double glazing -- or even gas & electricity. (And had to be careful where you put your feet when you got out of bed. Especially if the guzzunder hadn't been pushed fully under under the bed! Hi teebee, brings back memories of my early childhood living at mi nana's, I would never pee in the guzzunder so I had to walk down three flights of stairs and down the yard to the lavvy sometimes in the snow. Like you there was no electricity but they had gas and it was waste of time trying to light the gas mantles to see where you were going cos they took an age to brighten up. When it was bathtime nana would say "come on mucky pup lets avya in tin", tin meaning tin bath in front of the range and she used to heat the water by dropping flat irons into the tin which were heated on the fire. There were as many as four flat irons on the fire at any time ready to be dropped in (the prototype of the modern day combi boiler). I often would moan out "nana the waters cowd" and she would say "oppen yer legs" and drop a red hot iron into the bath, the water would bubble up and my legs would be kicking like a strangled duck "your not moaning its cowd now arya". Health and Safety eh!!. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Now that the tone of this thread has already been lowered a bit, perhaps I can now add that we kids were sometimes told to soak our feet in the guzzunder, po, poe, pot or whatever . Not filled with water either!! Supposedly a good old country remedy for the chilblains on our feet caused by the lack of heating in our cottage (was probably frostbite if truth were known). Yes, there were days when frost had to be chipped off the inside of the bedroom windows, and there was also no water available from the tap (single) for the same reason. But we did have some bedtime comfort in the form of the cast iron oven shelves, hot from the kitchen range, wrapped in a towel and placed at the bottom of the bed. Or a housebrick that had been heated the same way. (Should this be in a new thread - drifted off the topic a bit ??) teebee it's not a supposed remedy it's tried and tested as I have stated in another forum, as a teenager I suffered badly with athletes foot and no matter what remedy I tried it never cleared up. On a visit to my doctor he said you can try all the medicine on offer but the best cure is to pee in a bucket and soak your feet in it, you are taking the p*ss I thought but in desperation I tried it. After about two weeks there was no sign of the disease and I have not had an infection to this day, my wife says that I am the only man she has ever known not to have smelly feet perhaps the ammonia seals up the sweat glands in your feet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 When they yelled you and they used your middle name too...then you knew it was trouble. In our house your proper name meant trouble as in my case "Ray" meant she wanted you, but "Raymond" meant you didn't want her to want you. "Raymond, gerrin ere this minute" meant you wanted to take an age to get in there. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Miserable look on the face - "You'll stay that way if the wind changes"! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Eating a sweet last week which was quite sour and my cousin said I'll bet that made your tabs flap Dodie, my wifes family originate from Norfolk and on a visit there we went blackberry picking, when I put one in the bowl that was a little unripe her cousin said "moint put them'as in as they fair moik yer arse touch your elbows" meaning they are a little sour boy. All I know is, a pair of crows were trying to build a nest in the trees at the back of our house in November !! (I kid you not!), but it kept getting blown away so eventually they gave up , I've got a Cock and Hen Blackbird doing similar now!! Valentines day (Only 35 days away) is the day that birds are supposed to mate for the Spring Can someone send me a bird round on Valentines day then, oh I am naughty! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lotuskid 9 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 What's for tea? Bread and pullit, the more you pull it the more you get. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 I wonder who Jack Robinson was? Same with Gordon Bennett, I still say this, and folks say, who was he? I haven't a clue. I think Gordon Bennet was an eccentric American who was famed for doing silly things. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 I have heard that my real Dad told my mum to take the clothes pegs out her mouth when she was hanging out the washing,otherwise the kid would be born with a hare-lip. ( My mum was pregnant at the time) Another one was: I hope your underpants are clean, just in case you got knocked down by a bus. I did consider not wearing any, at least I would not have got knocked down by a bus if they were a little soiled lol Mi nan used to use that one Thomas, If I got run down by a bus the last thing I would think was are mi clouts clean? and lets be honest your clouts would get soiled just before the bus hit you anyway lol. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 I don't know if this is pure Nottingham speak but when eating a doorstep I was asked "eya gorra bad and"? I assumed it was because the doorstep made my hand look bandaged. Anyone else heard this one? Too right Pevril always had a bandage on mi hand Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 The discipline was always handed out by mam as dad used to work away a lot and when she was about to clout me she would say "this'll hurt me more than it'll hurt you" Ok mam save us both the pain why don't ya. As a teenager I gave her some lip in front of mi mates ooooh! big mistake, wham straight round the lug hole and when mi muckers laughed they got one too. Your not allowed to chastise kids now but they are allowed to go round abusing people often physically and get away with it, who brought that rule in?. If my mam was here today she would give em all a good tabholing. Bless her. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raybo 28 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Mi mam used to be a school dinner lady and when she came home she would say the same thing every time "put kettle on Ray I'm Gaggin" I would always ignore her, she only had to say one word "Raymond" I put the kettle on. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 pweew 'fine bleddy game'...................Dad used to say when owt went wrong. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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