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slopemaster

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

What part of Wolves are you from? We're in Newbridge, in between Tettenhall and Whitmore Reans.

Wednesfield, Ashmore Park Estate.
One set of grandparents lived in Bushbury, the other on Dudley Road.
I liked all the polished brass in those toilets!

slopemaster

gfplux wrote: »

hope that helps.

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it certainly does, thank you

slopemaster

droopsnout wrote: »

Yes ... Our little corner is forecast to be the hottest place in France tomorrow at 36C. Time to hide indoors - .

I spend much of July and August hiding indoors from the heat and tourists here in the southeast- though when I can, I get up at 6 and go for a walk before it gets hot.
You don't have Mistral over there do you? When it arrives here in summer its wonderfully cool, but at the moment we have a south wind like a fan-assisted oven yuk. I think semi-seriously about turning our cellar into a retreat from the heat. As it is, I'm in the attic, and its the hottest bit of the house!

seven-day-weekend

slopemaster wrote: »

Wednesfield, Ashmore Park Estate.
One set of grandparents lived in Bushbury, the other on Dudley Road.
I liked all the polished brass in those toilets!

Ashmore Park - the opposite end of the city to me, but my son's girlfriend is from Bellamy Lane, Wednesfield and my husband was brought up in Low Hill/Bushbury.

Bostin, ower kid!

seven-day-weekend

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Works on mine too, thanks!!

slopemaster

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Bostin, ower kid!

Have you read Meera Syall's book, 'Anita and Me'?
It's full of sayings like that.

seven-day-weekend

slopemaster wrote: »

Have you read Meers Syall's book, 'Anita and Me'?
It's full of sayings like that.

Oi ay reddit, ower kid, burr Oi know that there be a lorra spaych from Gornal innit.

(Black Country dialect lesson over otherwise no-one else will understand us!! It should say 'I haven't read it our kid, but I know that there's a lot of speech from Gornal in it'. Gornal is a Black Country dialect-speaking enclave near Dudley - and now Geography lesson over as well! )

Apparently Shakespeare would have spoken in something very similar to Gornal-ese.

slopemaster

Dad used to work in a solicitors affice in Cradely, where their clients included women nailmakers.
Grandad was a 'werkin mon' who used to tell Aynuck and Ayli stories'
I particularly liked

"Me mate's in the cut" (it was the 'mate' out of a sandwich...)
"There's a whale in the cut" (it was a bicycle 'whale'...)

and also maybe you know the ones with the punchlines
"Oi day say as I'd do it fust time" (throw Ayli across the cut)
and "Oi've brought yow a spunge to sup it up" (on being asked to bring the tea on a tray next time for some posh visitors)

Sorry, bit off topic...
Enoch and Eli represent the 'wise fool' who exists in lots of folk cultures though; I know there is one in Egypt, does Spain have the same I wonder ?

seven-day-weekend

(Cut = Canal).

I expect there are stories of this type in Spain, although I personally do not know what they are. There do seem to be a lot of horrible-looking witch-type effigies around (at least there are here in Andalucia) - I expect this is from some sort of folklore.

sandy2_2

For some reason witches represent good luck in andalucia and they`re given when someone moves into a new house
Sandy in Almeria