Hello Jean - I'm just catching up with this thread. My sister and were always whistling and my Mom used to say "A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither good to God nor men!" Just slightly different to what your Aunt Nell used to say. Judy
Hi Dad always used to say"Dont go by him, he has got his a&&&se in his hand! when we moved to Burton, theyNan and my great aunts used to say "well dog bite me" if surprised by something, no idea where it came from!
Sue
Pikelets! LOved em.full of oles for the best Danish butter to run through, YUMMY! John Crump OldBrit Parker. Co USAMy 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.
https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=29133&highlight=callPikelets! LOved em.full of oles for the best Danish butter to run through, YUMMY! John Crump OldBrit Parker. Co USA
I remember my father using the term "Nutty slack" to refer to a person, I know it is a term for coal.
But what would it refer to for a person?
All the best Peter
The real meaning is coal dust with a few small lumps in, often used to 'bank' a fire up overnight as it burned slow and would stil be alight in the morning (VERY useful on a freezing winter's day!). As a rhyming slang word it could stand for 'Black', but more likely was the 'nutty' as in a bit crazy, and 'slack' as useless, i.e. someone of low intellegence who wasn't really capable of doing a good job.
I can remember standing at the fire place with the "Draw tin" in me hand trying to get the fire go.
reg we never had a draw tin..used to use the sports argus or the evening mail to draw the fire..more often than not it caught fire and put us in a right old flap..lol...happy days