Thanks smudgeNever accept the 3rd light ( Army superstition )
Never cast a clout till May is out.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
Ship shape & Bristol fashion.
Don`t spoil the ship for a hayporth of tar.
Still use thatI'll go to the foot of our stairs, (Don't believe it) Paul
i know one thing for sure,our Maurice, when this crisis is over,i will never go there the weather is crappier there than here.....We've been right in the middle of an horrendous thunderstorm all morning and it's been abbsolutely tipping it down. It reminded me of my grandmother's saying - It's enough to give you the pip.
We never did find out what the pip actually was.
Maurice
it is nice here our Maurice. i am going to work on my garden in a while. removing loads of small volcanic rock pieces.in the patch i have rotavatedThanks, Pete. We need the rain with millions of olive trees on the island, but this heavy stuff most goes down the storm drains and straight out to sea. We need the steady drizzle - but it would still give me the pip!
Maurice
It gives me he willies! Where does that come from or the heeby geebies or the lurgyi know one thing for sure,our Maurice, when this crisis is over,i will never go there the weather is crappier there than here.....
give you the pip..
.It derives from the poultry disease known as “the pip.” The Oxford English Dictionary and Green's Dictionary of Slang reveal having or getting the pip was used to mean feeling depressed or out of sorts starting in the 1830s, and “giving [someone] the pip,” meaning to annoy or irritate, in 1896
glad to hear it our Maurice.Paul,
Until last year you could guarantee that no rain fall between June & Seotember, but things they are a-changing. I never have been a beach person, even during the 40 years I lived in Bournemouth - don't care for sand or hordes of people. So I was always up in the mountains, and my son-in-law's place is 2000 feet up and his father has land on the Katherou Plateau, so they were the places to go when you'd had enough of the heat. I stopped driving just over a year ago, so don't get up there as often as I would like. At least the rain has stopped now so I no longer have the pip!
Maurice
Didn't Sooty sprinkle foo foo dust?When anyone was a bit under the weather my dad used to say "You need a foo foo pill."
I never gave it much thought until recently then looked the origins, turns out it is, or was, opium back in the distant past.
You've lost your falurem?Paul,
Until last year you could guarantee that no rain fall between June & Seotember, but things they are a-changing. I never have been a beach person, even during the 40 years I lived in Bournemouth - don't care for sand or hordes of people. So I was always up in the mountains, and my son-in-law's place is 2000 feet up and his father has land on the Katherou Plateau, so they were the places to go when you'd had enough of the heat. I stopped driving just over a year ago, so don't get up there as often as I would like. At least the rain has stopped now so I no longer have the pip!
Maurice
At school they 'made us' sing, Lilli Bolero Bullen A La, what on earth was that all about.You've lost your falurem?
I am recalling the old Irish ballad, Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man.
"He's lost his falurem he's got no dingduram aaah"
Not saying you have lost that though!
At school the boys had to sing in a boys only class so it was dire. With tatty old song books defaced to make rude words from the originals. We all though Lillu Bulero quite daft, I still don't know what it means. Like Polly Wolly Doodle. And later The Farmer's Wife, with a rife aful ah, diddyful ah, fa l a la la la diddy fye ay?Lilli Bolero Bullen A La ... now thats a blast from the past. Another one we were forced to sing was "No John".
Maurice, i had a 3 week holiday in Crete & i have to say it`s the windiest place i`ve ever been. Bloody hot too.Paul,
Until last year you could guarantee that no rain fall between June & Seotember, but things they are a-changing. I never have been a beach person, even during the 40 years I lived in Bournemouth - don't care for sand or hordes of people. So I was always up in the mountains, and my son-in-law's place is 2000 feet up and his father has land on the Katherou Plateau, so they were the places to go when you'd had enough of the heat. I stopped driving just over a year ago, so don't get up there as often as I would like. At least the rain has stopped now so I no longer have the pip!
Maurice
The tune to which Custers 7th Cavalry always rode to, also the march of at least one British regiment and of course more famously a tune used to introduce a programme on the radio during the war and I think BBC World service.Lilli Bolero Bullen A La ... now thats a blast from the past. Another one we were forced to sing was "No John".