A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

lillibet_dripping

We also call sparrows 'spadgers'. And woodlice are 'cheesy-bobs'. Squirrels are 'squidgers'
When DS (now 17:eek:) was little a caterpillar was always called a 'pillycat' and the name has stuck forever in this family!!!

Mind you, this was the same little lad who, upon seeing a 2" long lizard basking on a rock in Greece, thought he had seen a crocodile

mardatha

My dad was broad Fife and he called sparrows "speugs" as in sp-yugs. Owls were hoolits, a thrush was a mavis.
We have a second day of nonstop horrible rain and the RV & I are considering a lovers suicide pact ..

Memory_Girl

Can I come and join you two???

Grey grey grey - Meh!!!! Feels like a Monday and it's a Friday.:mad:

Just drove back from Dundee - grey toon, grey water, grey sky, grey bridge - dreich! dreich! dreich!

MY favourite tea saying:

"Women are like tea-bags - you never know how strong they are until you drop them in hot water"

MG

BitterAndTwisted

maryb wrote: »

It was Oxfam where I got it. They have a really nice selection and I always look there - everywhere else seems to specialise in the frankly crude. Now I like a good double entendre as well as the next woman but most cards you see these days are just vulgar to my mind.

I'm with you on the crude maryb. I think it must be my age. The funniest card I received in a long while (well, it was to me, any road) was from my sister, who is only 15 months younger than me anc just loves to play up that I'm almost a decrepit pensioner while she's as sprightly and lithe as can be, the cheeky cow. The caption went along the lines of something like "When you get old you lose your mind. But what they don't tell you is that you won't miss it". I still have it here somewhere and keep meaning to have it framed. Along with the "I may be 50 but that just means I'm 18 with 32 years of experience"which I like almost equally

About the spruggies: if it's a northern term it's almost guaranteed to be of Norse origin. I'm going to look up what sparrows are in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish to satisfy my idle curiosity.

Have a good day everyone. For once it's not pelting down here. I'll accept overcast and grey if it's not wet, cold and blowy. How sad is that when it's supposed to be nice and warm and sunny? Still my lettuce garden and the flowering geraniums on the kitchen window-sill don't seem to care. I do wish those strawberry seeds would get going: three tiny seedlings is all I've got so far.

maryb

I had a great birthday card this year from DD2. I had always said she could have Facebook when she was 16 BUT she had to have me as a friend. Well I realised she had gone ahead and set up a Facebook account but omitted the other bit. So we sorted that one out pronto!

Anyway the card she got me was one of those black and white ones of a child pulling a horrified face and the caption was " It's the moment every child dreads - getting a friend request from your Mum on Facebook"

Bobbykins

la la la - happy song - I've just received a parcel from Scotland! Thanks Mardatha - they're gorgeous, so pretty and the whole house smells divine. I am in love with little meeces in gorgeous bags :D

It's grey and overcast here too. I've made an effort towards gardening, as in I've been down to "mi shed" and potted a few peas, daren't put them straight in the ground, my veg patch is like a bog just now.

That's as much like working as I feel today and I've got 4 new library books so going to cuddle up on the sofa with a cuppa and a Terry Pratchett and vegetate.

Byatt

On the subject of cards, I have been known to laugh hysterically at the funny ones, alone in shops and some are somewhat crude but in a very funny off the wall, cartoon way. Last time I bought a card I heard it being played, yes played at the other end of the card rack, so sidled up and had a look. It was the song "I'm so excited..." being sung by hyper guinea pig. Both me and the other customer couldn't resist, and I kept playing it till posted to my American friend.

ginnyknit

Thought I would get a new batch of gloop cooking, left it on very low heat and started watching a film :eek::eek: we now have a pan that looks like a volcano erupting but my cooker is very clean and the floor ... and the sink... and my slo cooker dish which was in the sink :rotfl: my hands are lovely and soft too.

Decided to bomb the garden with seeds due to the slugs and mice eating all my seedlings, I guess it may work. planted beetroot, kale,fennel and a tub of watercress. Potatoes and shallots are poking through so that something.

Mrs_Chip

Afternoon!

Grey and bleurgh! here - a nothing weather day with a hint of fug. Little birdy still trying to see off his non existent rival, but not quite so manic. Even with curtains closed he checked back every ten minutes or so, I could hear his scratty toes on the window frame :rotfl:

Sparrows were Spadgers to us in the south east. And squirrels are squiggles. oh and starlings are sparlings - all pretty much baby-talk I think!

I am going to have to stop feeding the fat balls, when we left our garden was like something from the Lord of the Rings - great black things swarming about the feeders - the jackdaws were coming down in huge numbers. We are going to have to find a way to feed the little birds that excludes the corvids, they are quite monstrous at times. I'm thinking about something like a puppy cage on legs with the feeder in the middle. A real nuisance as we love watching the birds on the feeder.

fuddle

Does anyone know when this dreadful cold, dreary weather is supposed to end? It's here for the weekend at least where I am. So fed up. I'm trying to not put the heating on but I've just had to at 4.30pm. I'll turn it off after baths.

Not only am I worrying about the gas charges but recently the tumble dryer has been going non-stop too. I yearn for the outside line! I did get the sheets dried out there a couple of days ago so musn't grumble.

Flip flops? What are they?! The children are still in their winter coats with fleece linings. They've only got 10 weeks till the summer holidays and I'm itching to get them in their summer cotton school unoform dresses.. I love a bit of gingham and daisy chain crowns.

Sigh* It's bliddy frozzen!