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Re: It was your job to do, when you was a kid.
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Originally Posted by cashman
it varied 1 week wash up after tea, our kid went co-op n corner shop fer messages, switch around week after, simple house rules- don't do= no spending money, brought mine up the same. wouldn't mind betting many do nowt these days fer there spence.  |
Oddly I'd never heard of 'messages' until I lived in Glasgow.
'I'm away for my messages in a wee while.'
Messages?
Are you a spy?
Anyone else in the area, besides Cashy who called shopping 'messages'?
I still think it's more Scottish than Lancastrian.
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