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And a Britvic, parents freezing to death in the dark in the garden, I was so content with crisps and a drink, being outside in the dark, a fish pond and string of fairy lights and family all together eeeh!

The DNA testing might help but it is linked with Ancestry. But I am sure you can do it without biu that wouldn't give you names just matches. You could contact The Long Lost Family TV site. They use DNA. I have old numbers probably defunct now. There is an Alive or Dead register, sounds...

Maybe it's what some people called the pub then. They seem(ed) to have different names to the pubs here. When I used to frequent them, we had lots of names. My local was The Stag. It's actual name is or was The Old Stag. The Town Wall Tavern bar where we met/meet has a tiny bar known as The...

Not seen it in colour. Did you have to sing I am H A P P Y too.?

oooooh! Yes she said too that and worse I cannot put here. As she said of other forthright women, 'er's John Bull, 'er dow baulk 'er fancy.

Nan, of a mouthy woman.......shut yer legs missis there's a draught. And mum trying to hide somewhere. Which is hard on a bus.

fun it, for found it

Arm a coddin, Virginia Brummie, I get the same. Or if I insist, 'What da you talk about now.?'

Joe Soap

Nan hated wearing tight clothes, she had some bloomers once in the 60s with tight legs very like the lycra shorts of today. She said 'I cor abear anythin tight, I like the wind to be blowin round the 'ouses, esoecially in me trowsiz

Grandad would say that and add Spaniel, to me.

In the song Goodbyee Nan would sing, "Though it's hard to part I know, I'll,,,,be......tittled ta death ta go" And in Stop Your Tickling Jock, she sang "stop yer tittle in tittle little little in, "

Robin gave me a present of a worm yesterday, I was touched. Does he think I am a big robin? We thought they might be nesting in the ivy by the window as twice before or they could be after spiders in it and in the jasmine and under the window frames as lots of the birds are, does that mean...

Nan used to get an attack of the agues too. The hot and cold shivers, my mate used to say the hotaches. Mum said the heebiejeebies but that was when she was scared.

Yow'll be the death 'o me. Nan wore a very long sleevless vest, tucked in, 'to keep me neck warm' she said with irony.

Plopped ham with chalk

I posted this before but.....'er fairse 'ud stop a clock. Mardy pants, and mardy britches. In the Cov playground I used to hear mardy @rse. At work titty la la. Apparantly means a bit of a wimp or a cry baby. I loved, spittin' feathers. and cussin' . If nan saw a sailor, 'the fleet's in!'

Posh ex colleague from Leek Wooton said "if my mum saw that she's have a blue fit.".

Nan would say, arm a coomin now, in a minit. Brummie auntie said back in half a bit, and mum, in half a tick.

The now, bit is interesting, I noted in Cumbria they ad 'now' to phrases, there you go now, My Dublin friend's mum when giving us our dinner would say now Bob, now Nico as she handed us the plates.