General Chat

Please add some of your old fashioned sayings or country recipes and folklore??

Like Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.

Does anyone know what this means??

Lets hear some or yours?

hi melanie,my nan used this saying all the time,it means dont take off your warm clothes until may is out.i suppose its good advise the weather we are getting,lol.

it's a bit parky!

put wood in toil

nowt as queer as folk

Great girls.

Now think of some more please.

E can't make a purse outa a sows ear!

frame ya sen


get yourself moving/sorted

Lisa my nan always said that to us younguns.

My grandfather used to say if asked about the weather.

If there's enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of trousers it will be fine later.

Gran thats a good one! And the other is smashing! Have'nt heard that one before.

if we were playing our music,this would be 70s! nan would say,he sounds like a gleed under the door! a gleed was a pice of coal from the old style open fires and it would make a scratching sound if caught under the door,lol.

Lisa

Never heard that one but it was quite right I suppose.

Julie

Like the second one. I shall have to remember that one for use at some other date.

Yorkshire Sayings

See all
Hear all
Say nowt
Eyt all
Sup all
Pay nowt
An' if tha does owt for nowt ,
Do it for thissen
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This an better may do
This an worse will never do



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'if tha can't say owt good about a body shut thi gob'

Just a few I remember

Regards
Jackie

Could,nt hit a barn door with a banjo,
lousy shot lol

Running with the fox,yet chasing with the hounds,
sitting on the fence lol

Believe every thing you see,
but only half of what you hear,
gossip lol

Too many cook spoil the broth.

Too many wines...spoil the cook lol.

People in glass houses should not throw stones.

Woe Be tide Ya, if I catch hold of ya,,,pmsl

Me Nan god bless her when I played her up lol

When the glass falls low,
Prepare for a blow,
When it rises high,
Let your kites fly.

Sue

If you see a magpie on it's own,to keep away bad luck you should say........
Good morning Mr Magpie give my regards to the wife & children.........then bow or cursey three times.

hi my mum used to chant
see a penny, pick it up
all that day you'll have good luck
chris x

my mum used to say to me

If you keep pulling that face if the wind changes direction it will stay like that.

well I could pull some orrible faces whey I was a kid.
maybe the wind did change

Feed a cold & starve a fever!

What goes round round comes round,

I could ate a hoss died with the riff ----hungry

up the wooden hills --- go to bed

Never a borrower or a lender be.