'What were they on about?' What Grandparents from Sheffield used to say.

[jane2008 15]

what's for dinner mam, a kick at cellar door and 3 runs round table also (bread and same) nowt on one side and same ont other

 

I'm sure I've posted this before but in our house it was 's**t wi sugar on and a run round table'

[grinder 10]

It'll put sum lead in the pencil .......

[beezerboy 12]

It'll put sum lead in the pencil .......

 

It,s one thing to have lead in your pencil,but it,s better when you,ve someone to write to.

[PeterR 10]

Don't thee "thee and thah me, thee and thah thi sen, and see ah thah likes it"

 

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Grandma would say of someone she didn't like, "He ought to be stiff, with a gun up his jeer"!

 

Hi trastrick and everyone. I made a tape recording of my grandma in conversation in 1958 when I was 14. Lots of theein and thowin and teckin and dooin etc. from her. I'm so glad I have this

Edited January 5, 2013 by PeterR

[grinder 10]

Cum in it's a shop...

[hillsbro 32]

Cum in it's a shop...

..an' put t'wood in t'oyl.

[grinder 10]

If av telled thi once av telled thi a undered times, Geyor slamin that dooer, if tha brakes glass it'll chop thee off at knees....

Edited January 7, 2013 by grinder

[dawn19run 10]

Tha't as black as fireback was what my nan used to say to me after a hard days playing around the steelworks,also 'Tha't a bigger liar than Tom pepper and he got chucked outta Hell for lying' I was indeed.

I was also given money to fetch 'T'special' which was the Star newspaper.

 

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Oh and 'Whats for tea nan?' 'Pigs arse and cabbage'

 

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Did anyone else's grandparents do a "peek-a-boo" type game with toddlers and babies, where they'd put something like a hanky or a flat-cap type hat on the baby's head, and they'd call out "Tattoes today!"

 

I remember my grandparents doing this to my younger cousins, and presume they must have done the same to me, when I was tiny.

 

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I've just remembered a quip my gran would make, at us grandkids, when we wanted her to play or rough-house with us, and she didn't feel up to it.

 

She'd say "Oooh, no, I've got a bone in my leg!"

I still say that today to my grandchildren,who look at each other and shrug....

[NANNY 10]

I told my daughter when she was off school she had screaming ab dabs and when teacher asked why she had been off school she said she had screaming ab dabs, It meant she was being a misery

[DUFFEMS 56]

Tha't as black as fireback was what my nan used to say to me after a hard days playing around the steelworks,also 'Tha't a bigger liar than Tom pepper and he got chucked outta Hell for lying' I was indeed.

I was also given money to fetch 'T'special' which was the Star newspaper.

 

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Oh and 'Whats for tea nan?' 'Pigs arse and cabbage'

 

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I still say that today to my grandchildren,who look at each other and shrug....

 

Talking of t'Special, my grandfather taught me a rhyme about it:

Weer's tha bin lad

Selling Specials

Who fo

Mi uncle Dick

What's hi gen thi

Oni a'penny

Skinny owd pig

He owt to dee

[grinder 10]

Ah, it were all coil fires so tha owney needed a little bin ?

 

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I gorrit Buckshee.....For free..

[haze08 10]

Great thread - some memories here - what a giggle!

 

I live in the Midlands now and my kids were in hysterics when I told them that in Sheffield a little child would know a horse as a 'poppo'.

 

We also used to have 'three kicks at cellar door and a run round t' table' for tea.

 

We would have something new 'when Nelson gets his eye back'

 

And if you were hot you'd be 'sweating cobs'.

 

Lizzie Dripping and Fanny Adams are familiar to me too.

 

It would be 'black o'er Bill's Mother's' when it went dark before rain - and when it did rain I would hear 'send it down Daisy'.

 

I remember breaking my foot years ago and telling my southern friend on the phone that I had a 'pot leg' (she called it a 'plarster carst') - or a 'pot on my leg' - she had no idea what I was talking about!

 

And if anyone had a miserable face my mum would ask if they'd been 'stood o'er a mirrer'

 

If they were mean with money they'd 'skin a fart fer't smell'

 

I could go on.....!!