Preparedness for when

thorsoak

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'll see you tarmac and creosote and raise you Jeyes Fluid, Do I win the sniffy poker today???

Lots of colloquial names for insects spiders are either Septimuses or Freds and woodlice in Kent are Pilly Bugs and in Gloucestershire Chuggy Pigs, any local names for things where you all dwell???

Woodlice are cheeselogs in Berkshire!

craigywv

thorsoak wrote: »

woodlice are cheeselogs in berkshire!

over here they are called clocks!

mardatha

Slaters here. YEUGH!

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Wow so many names, it's wonderful stuff, we should catalogue all out local names for things and let out children and grandchildren have a copy of the lists for posterity.

Smells are a very individual thing aren't they? I love the smell of a timber yard, I love that smell after the rain, the smell of freshly cut grass and drying hay when they turn it in the fields, the smell of the sea and pine woods and the heady smell of an apple store but I also like the smell in our mini barn as the wood is very aromatic, lovely stuff Oh and roast dinner cooking too!!! and Hops drying takes me back to being pre school and going hop picking with my mum!!!

ivyleaf

The smell of sand, cement and new bricks on a building site takes me straight back to being out for a walk with my Dad 55 years ago, walking past where they were building new houses opposite our flat.

And the smell of freshly-turned earth reminds me of watching him digging up the potatoes

DawnW

thorsoak wrote: »

Woodlice are cheeselogs in Berkshire!

Chucky pigs in Wiltshire

I grew up in Sussex, but don't remember them being called anything but woodlice there, disappointingly.... although one of my younger siblings misheard / misunderstood and called them 'widdle houses' for a while :rotfl:

DawnW

fuddle wrote: »

Old wooden bureau's. I did think my grandma had the only lovely smelling bureau until I recently opened a lady's to dust inside and wham, my grandma's bureau came on back to me. Lovely.

I have one Not fashionable at the moment, but I love it, and it is certainly useful. You can pick nice ones up for £50 or less at auction (depending on age, type of wood etc, the mid 20th century ones are cheaper). I recently upgraded to a fifty quid, 19th mahogany century one, and sold the 1930s one I had before. Cheaper than Ikea, and will outlast me

I love old furniture. I like to think of all the people who owned it before me, how they used it and what their houses were like

Living_proof

They are slaters in Scotland.

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Bathory wrote: »

Bedsit Bob - Yes that is the stall on Bury market

Do you also get your bleach and washing up liquid from there, in the 5 Litre containers?

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Frugalsod wrote: »

Spiders are definitely allowed.

Totally agree.

Not only are they amazing creatures, but they help to keep the flies down.

I have several spiders living under my computer desk.

One is huge (about 2" long) and, every now and again, it runs across the floor.