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True though isn't it, a Magpie was an exotic bird where I lived then...

 

hiya grinder as i've said before on another site that reit theer when i wu lickle when i heard the sparrers chirpin i thort it were time to gu an see me grammar she lived ont maner, the birds would sing every day up theer not weer we lived tha cudn't hear out fut factories bangin an clankin it reit did the eard in.

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And the soil in the garden was so sad nothing would grow there except some scraggy grass tufts.

mind you when I say garden I use the term loosely....

It was a part of the yard where they played football or cricket depending, and the asphalt had worn through..

For years I thought of it as our garden and me dad had planted those Dandelions...

 

Oh ah, a saying,

"Where there's muck there's money"......

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Can any of you older posters remember this.."goin for a walk round lump"...i said it the other day and my grandson said "what"!!!!!...:)

 

Is it just a Sheffield saying?

 

It's definitely northern, but I don't think it's just Sheffield. My Grandmother was from Chesterfield and she used to say it too.

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Back in the 30s and 40s at 'scoil' a favorit saying was 'save us t' core', that was to anyone who was lucky to have an apple. Then you'd hang about waiting for the kid with the apple to finish it, and he'd be obliged to get through the thing as quickly as possible. We were desparate for sustenance back then.

 

If it was a pear - they would say 'thiz no cores on pears'

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What was it you had to say to get first choice ,was it Dabbs ?

I remember if you were playing games and you had to stop for some reason it was cross your fingers and shout "Kings"

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If it was a pear - they would say 'thiz no cores on pears'

 

Them pears were as hard as 'ousebricks. We wunt wait forrem to ripen!

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Jollop

 

..as in..

 

We're still waiting for thi mother, she's not gorr her jollop on yet!

 

It's only a scratch just stick some jollop on it!

Edited by Frankie Rage

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Jollop

 

..as in..

 

We're still waiting for thi mother, she's not gorr her jollop on yet!

 

It's only a scratch just stick some jollop on it!

 

Another was "Dollop" as in "She put this great dollop of cabbage on my plate "

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No Grinder - it was "first dibbs" not dabbs. At least it was in our 'ouse.

 

Grannypat

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read it in english-yorkshire dictionara :D

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No Grinder - it was "first dibbs" not dabbs. At least it was in our 'ouse.

 

Grannypat

 

That's the feller grannypat, no wonder I never won one...:hihi:

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It's true, we were out on the streets playing from dawn 'til dusk, Sunday night was bath night... the rest of the week it was just a quick wipe around. And clean pants on after bath night, every week...:P

 

My mum used to sit me on the draining board in the kitchen and wash my hands, face and knees. I hated it when she got the tops of my long white socks wet and I had to go out with them soggy....

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