And mine did, over his shoulder he was Cov born and bred and his great grandparents, maybe its a Midland thing. He also said shoot.. fire... bung! Before he did something like going out. My Cov gran used to say hair teetch and medicinal before she went to bedWhen it was time for bed dad used to carry me on his back up the stairs saying "Up The Wooden Hill To Bedfordshire".
My mum's Blackcountry grandads and her dad called her mo wench. Nan called grandad my chap when referring to him. I worked with a Dudley lad who called me chap.Hi Grandmaster
I have always known the above as Wench,thats what I used to be called
Cheers Jemina
Saw an advert last week, The Wench with the Wrench. It wasn't black country though it was in Herefordshire.My mum's Blackcountry grandads and her dad called her mo wench. Nan called grandad my chap when referring to him. I worked with a Dudley lad who called me chap.
My mother said she was going to have pikelets for tea. We use to sit in front of my nans fire toasting them on a fork. The packet in which they were bought the other day pronounced crumpets. So a round flatish thing with lots of holes in the top to me is a pikelet so what do the rest of you Brummies call them.
My mother said she was going to have pikelets for tea. We use to sit in front of my nans fire toasting them on a fork. The packet in which they were bought the other day pronounced crumpets. So a round flatish thing with lots of holes in the top to me is a pikelet so what do the rest of you Brummies call them.
I believe it was called a POITELETTE?
TedB
i was watching an episode of come dine with me set in brum and one person guest said i'm so hungry i could eat a scabby horse. i haven't heard that for a long time
Hi, I've heard about the scabby horse (pronounced 'oss) Can't remember if it was Mom and Dad or my ex who was from the Black Country. Anne
another was "its as black as dicks hatbandI had to educate these southerners about pikelets as well. They thought they were small fish. Are they?
Reminds me I've got some pikelets in the freezer. Just the thing for tea----dripping with butter.
A Black Country expression 'it's a bit black over Bill's mothers'.
Another one for someone who went a long way round or spent ages explaining something ' he's gone all round the Wrekin'.
Janet
Hi Podgery, I always thought that a scabby 'oss was probably the most disgusting thing you could think of to eat, so you had to be pretty hungry to consider it. AnneHi Anne one of my uncles who lived in Westbrom used to say that but i can't tell you what it meant.
Bob's yer uncle and Fanny's a rude word."Bobs yer uncle" Came to my feeble mind one day when showing my Granson how to do something John Crump OldBrit Parker,Co USA
Dad said clodhoppers too. Titfer for hat (tit for tat) gamp or umbergamp for his brolly, gran said passion killers for her bloomers which made my teacher laugh. Nan said of a windy day, it's blowin' round the 'ouses and blowin up me trowsers. She had a riddle too, what goes up a spout down and down a spowt up = an umbrella. If someone was pregnant she would says er's up the spout.One of my father's favourite sayings was "put yer bat on it" - referring to creepy crawlies like woodlice of black beetles, meaning to stamp on it. Although actually born in Upper Landywood, Great Wyrley, he was brought up in Ladywood. And his name for his working boots were 'clodhoppers'.
Maurice