Gallygirl's "A journey of 121,226.67 pounds begins with a single penny" diary

abouttimetoo

ahem_47 wrote: »

KC - were you on the pop when you were there? No point in claiming to be sober now

On the pop, hehe, not heard that expression for ages Mr GG :rotfl:

ahem_47

ATT - regional colloquialisms!! I remember the first time I heard a bread roll referred to as a barm cake - totally flummoxed.

KC - after writing what I did I had a right chuckle to myself as I recollected a joke fitting of the occasion (if you can forgive me!)

A boy asks his granny, "Have you seen my pills, they were labelled LSD?"

Granny replies, "forget the pills, son, have you seen the dragons in the kitchen?!"

Courtesy of Bigmo on another site I visit

scubaangel

ahem_47 wrote: »

ATT - regional colloquialisms!! I remember the first time I heard a bread roll referred to as a barm cake - totally flummoxed.

A rare post on here from me - barm cake/bread roll is easy try working where the locals call them tea cakes. I thought they were off their rockers the first few times people asked me for a bacon teacake for breakfast.

Doesn't help that we also sell actual teacakes which the locals refer to as toasted teacakes even if I serve it to them untoasted! :cool:

gallygirl

Anyone here used to get sent to get the 'messages'? :rotfl:.

Yes KC, I can confirm they are still there and it was an interesting story as I didn't know there used to be lions in the Tower :eek: and it's the origins of the 'three lions on my shirt, Jules Rimet's still gleaming' etc :T.

cazmanian_minx

My husband still goes for his mother's messages at times! And takes a piece to work for lunch.

gallygirl

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

My husband still goes for his mother's messages at times! And takes a piece to work for lunch.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:dance::dance::dance:Still doing the money shuffle, yeah, yeah :dance::dance::dance:

Have decided the Universe IS going to deliver eventually so have set up a spreadsheet :T. That'll be the end of that then :rotfl:.

Karmacat

ahem_47 wrote: »

KC - after writing what I did I had a right chuckle to myself as I recollected a joke fitting of the occasion (if you can forgive me!)

A boy asks his granny, "Have you seen my pills, they were labelled LSD?"

Granny replies, "forget the pills, son, have you seen the dragons in the kitchen?!"

:j I love it!

:dance::dance::dance:Still doing the money shuffle, yeah, yeah :dance::dance::dance:

Have decided the Universe IS going to deliver eventually so have set up a spreadsheet :T. That'll be the end of that then :rotfl:.

Yay! The universe only delivers when it knows that you *mean* it. Go you :j

teabody

gallygirl wrote: »

Anyone here used to get sent to get the 'messages'? :rotfl:.

Reminds me of my Granny! and yes I used to get sent for the messages! ...reminiscing now:)

abouttimetoo

Yes, I used to get sent for messages and still say going to do a message

Having worked away and all over for so long I've had many a 'barm cake/teacake' moment, I was brought up with the word bun and occasionally still say it when in foreign parts, with me then having to think of the local version, barm, cob etc or else cue much pointing!

Fish and chip shops are similar, I don't like extra batter but if I have to get it for someone else the word batter never seems to land well outside of my home area with scraps or bag of bits being the most common alternatives

Caz, great to see you bag round these parts and yes, I have friends who take a piece to work

Regards
ATT

gallygirl

Square sausage anyone? Or maybe an Empire biscuit