Thank you Eric. I like the Vesporous though. And her Nutty Cayman (Tutankhamoun) , Megavissey, Arbroath (Amroth) Dalma. (Daimler). Chickerlings (Chitterlins). Gray pays an grawty puddin.
haha! It was you look like wreck of the Hesperus, I like your Nan's version best!richer in wisdom I think
I look like the wreck of the Vesporous (I think that was the wrong name but that's what Nan said)
or something the cat's dragged in.
Pulled through an 'edge backuds
Or the wild 'ooman o' Borneo
Well I have posted the following elsewhere, but....she said if she had a dress with an elasticated waist, aah look lark a bag o' sxxt tied up ugly. One of my great gran's said straight as a yard of pumpwater, Nan said the tidemark comment about women who wore 'muckup', an day wash their necks. As dull as ditchwater, .....If she passed a sailor, she would titter saying 'the fleet's in!'I t's nice to know I am not alone.haha! It was you look like wreck of the Hesperus, I like your Nan's version best!
It was from a poem by Henry Longfellow about a ship in a storm a sea.
My Dad used to say all of those and "so and so looks like a bag of muck tied in the middle"
and "straight up and down like a yard of ditchwater" & "did you see the tidemark around that 'un's neck?"
Such a rich language we had that is sadly disappearing