My dad always said "Can't stand cheeky kids when they reach middle age and still think they are 'Gods gift' the middle age spreads to the brain as well as the middle bits"
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My dad always said "Can't stand cheeky kids when they reach middle age and still think they are 'Gods gift' the middle age spreads to the brain as well as the middle bits"
You knew your father?
Well that is a suprise.
(Departs to find the ignore button, before the stalker becomes too obsessed again.)
I can't think of a situation in my whole life where I have come across a more objectionable individual.
I barely knew my father because he was killed in Burma when I was five years old.
He left me a legacy...."never accept the word or statement of a person who does'nt know which direction he/she is going"
I think if you look at the forums you will find that it is you who are stalking not me...........I have no intention of striking the ignore button as far as you are concerned, I want to see how many times in a very short period you will come out with a smart arsed comment a make yourself look a right prat. AGAIN
Would that be my friend your granny Lily
I still say to my eldest Daughter there's only two things I hate thats bad beer and cheeky kids and there is very little bad beer, oh by the way I'm of to her 40th birthday bash tonight
Yes it it was. Though she never thought of herself as ever being old, or foolish, even if she was a Conservative.
Lily was never old Rindi, she didn't have time to grow old she was to busy enjoying herself, I was very sorry when she died as I was in hospital at the time and couldn't go to the funeral. I used to sit on the next table in Ossy Con every Saturday night, and we always had a good laughYes it it was. Though she never thought of herself as ever being old, or foolish, even if she was a Conservative.
That's lovely, thank you.
Even though we'll probably never agree on politics, it was her thinking yourself, Peter, and Ken were 'nice lads', that I know you aren't all bad.
Do you know or remember Bernard Hargreaves who was the Steward of the Con Club?
He was also the Steward of the Straights club.
Are both clubs still going?
Bernard and Ivy were good friends of mine Roy, although they were only ever stand in stewards at the Con. I'm the logest serving member of Ossy Con, been member since I was 16 (young conservative, then full member at 18) although it is now known as Ossy Social club, but still retains its Con Club status, The Nash (Straights club) is still open but I haven't been in for years, my neighbour up stairs Jack Whatmore still goes in occasionally. The only other club still open in Ossy is the Stanhill club, although St. Marys church have a social club on Lock Street, near the Town Hall and there is Church cricket club as well
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Thanks for that. Bernard and I go back a long way...I knew him when his sister Esther and her husband Jim had the Old Mother Redcap, Bernard and Ivy then had the Crescent in Blackburn.....You will probably know Raymon Hacking who did the stocktaking at the Con? Raymon and I used to be at Thwaites in the middle seventies.
Yay know Raymond very well Roy, but havn't seen him for a while. I can remember when the Rovers won the Prem at Anfield and it showed Rovers the fans, Raymond was right in the middle of them. Its a few years now since Bernard died, you lose track of time, must be 4 or 5 years ago, we used to pull his leg, he kept getting gout, he was a real nice bloke and I used to like being in his company, a real charactor and sadly missed
My mum used to get her 'donkey stone' from the rag and bone man. He used to come down the street with his horse and cart, it was a lovely animal, very placid and well looked after.
He used to shout 'eeeee rag boneeeeoooooohhhh' and everybody used to go running outside to see what he had on offer.
It could have been a spinning top, a stick with a piece of string on it as a fishing rod!! this was in the heart of built up Patricroft in Eccles, not a river or brook anywyere for a few miles!, and for the girls you could get a feather on a piece of string hanging off a stick (dont know what they were).
You could get donkey stones all of which could be either bought or exchanged for your old clothes or bric-a-brac.
An old fashioned way of recycling!
He used to shout 'eeeee rag boneeeeoooooohhhh' and everybody used to go running outside to see what he had on offer.
It could have been a spinning top, a stick with a piece of string on it as a fishing rod!! this was in the heart of built up Patricroft in Eccles, not a river or brook anywyere for a few miles!, and for the girls you could get a feather on a piece of string hanging off a stick (dont know what they were).
You could get donkey stones all of which could be either bought or exchanged for your old clothes or bric-a-brac.
An old fashioned way of recycling!
My dad used that term often , but I never thought to ask about its origin - think it predates the POW camp at Stanhill
PS - found pow on the list here-
Lancashire Dialect Glossary
Lancashire Dialect Glossary
Just wondering, could it have something to do with the barbers Pole that used to be outside their shops. I can remember Jim Kershaw's shop, at the top of Monarch Street, Opposite the Civic Theatre, had one of these red and white striped poles outside, but you don't seem to see them anymore
The piece of string on a stick was the whip that went with the spinning top.(whip & top)
Had a look at the site, noticed a few that weren't quite how we used them round here.
Badger. - Butchers shop, there was one in Butchers Alley in Accrington, his old Badge Book is in the archives at Accrington Library.
Bantering. - pulling peoples leg.
Conked - as in th'engines conked out.
Powfagged - as in tired and worn out. IE Jiggered - Buggered .
Retlaw.