Genealogy Chat

Whats for Tea; run around the table till your fed up. Whens a door not a door when its ajar; Dont try and teach your granny to suck eggs; your a better door than a window; if your stood in front of something; Warm the cockles of my A** to lift skirt and warm yourself backwards in front of fire; Fur coat and no knickers;; all top show Full wind and watter P**s taker Babs;; you have me going now

So many happy memories. but now I miss my Gran...boo hoo. Some of her sayings: Walls Have Ears (just in case I was listening) Pigs might fly. If I said 'thats not fair' the reply was always nor is a black pudding. If I asked Where has my mum gone the reply was There and back to see how far or She's gone a shore to buy a loaf. If I asked what colour she would say Sky blue pink with a finny haddy border! Iv'e seen more meat on a butchers apron. The one I think everyone will remember is Children should be seen and not heard!! When words failed her she would fling her wet dish cloth and I learnt to duck at an early age.

Gosh Merry, Brings bck so many memories................... jennifer wow!

All round Jan's meadow. (Going the long way about something) 'Hasn't our cat got a long tail' (Some long-winded and pointless story) 'I've got a bone in me leg' (Excuse for not doing something) 'Up to high doh' (Hysterical)

If you were looking sulky or making a 'face' you'd be 'Stuck like that when the Wind Changes'!! Jay

Well I remember a good many of those so far but does anyone else remember hearing my favourate that my dad used. 'Where's me glasses, or I'll be running past meself 'The vision of that used to tickle me pink.

'She looks like Mutton dressed as Lamb' Any middleaged woman dressed in too young a style Jay

My mother in law came from the Yorkshire dales and when my kids started singing she would tell them they sounded like cows at a christening.I never found out what she meant My grandad used to tell me that if I didn't behave I would get a new nothing with my name written in gold and tied up with ribbon for Christmas Bren

When asking 'Whats for dinner tonight Mum',she would often say'Fried fillets of fresh air'

If you asked my grandma what she was making, whether it was sewing or knitting etc it was always 'a wigwam for a wowsers what not'. I still haven't got a clue what a wowsers what not is.

in and out like a dog at a fair.......... for dinner... a rasher of wind and a fried snowball.... a thin person... like a matchstick with the wood scraped off......

Anybody know why my Dad would bless my little cotton socks? At my friend's house we would have 'iffit' for tea - if it's there, you can have it Beth :)

Just remembered a couple of others - When I asked what was for dinner it was always 'eels feet and chickens lips' When I asked what my mother was making (she was a dressmaker) it was always 'a wimwam for gooses' bridles'!!!!

Lilly My nan had a variation on yours; ' Up in Annie's room under the sponge.' and She gave him a flea behind his ear. (a cuff on the head?)

Whenever we were leaving the house as a child and someone said'have you got everything' my dad would make the sign of the cross saying SPECTACLES TESTICLES WALLET AND WATCH relating to forehead, lower regions, pocket to pocket , and then for good measure say AMEN............ he stopped when us girls started saying too........MOE!

Just having a laugh reading these old saying, what about these ones my mum and dad use to say: When as a child I ask what was for tea. I was told 'Bread and pull it' .....meaning....wait and see/whatever in the cupboards. also: you are driving me round the bend'. when being a bit of a pain for whatever reason. When I couldn't find something. it was 'up in granny room behind the clock.' meaning how do I know.!! When something seem to take twice as long to do. it was 'why are you going all the way round to Wills mothers' (whoever Will was?) Then there was 'up the wooden hill to fairy land' going to bed.... and ......'I go to the foot of my stairs', meaning ' I can't believe that/surprise/shock......lol.....lol.... keep them coming, its bringing back lots of memories.......Lilly

and at the tea table Mabel, Mabel, good and able Get your elbow off the table!

My mum used to say when I was doing something I shouldn't and had been warned... 'I'll give it to you my lady!!' and to my brother when he was being cheeky 'Don't come the old tin man with me my boy!' I must still use that one as I caught my little granddaughter saying it the other day to her brother.

My mum has said the sayings about guts for garters. Don't care was a rhyme we chanted in the playground. My favourite ones come from my Norfolk grandfather, who died before I was born :-( - you need that as much as a frog needs a back pocket and - a fact is a lie and a half! nell

I remember most of the above, except in our family, extreme amazement was always expressed as 'Well! I'll go to Buxton!' My Granny had a particularly northern expression, well, I've never heard anyone else say it 'I were that thrawn, I strangled mesen w' a dishclout' which meant she had been terribly busy! 'A man on a galloping horse wont notice that.' And in OUR family, chincough of the knees signified that your skirt was so short, it was round your neck!!! 'What's for tea, Mam?' always brought the response 'Duck and roll' (Duck under the table and roll on the floor) 'A proper bugger's muddle' (I still use this expression myself) 'Hoity-toity, me fine bootee' was the signal that I was pushing it a bit with my airs and graces! Olde Crone