General Chat

Barbara, Your a dirty pig (or maybe black pig) did a poop in the house Uch a vie (sp) well used by my gran And mochyn di Cachi (poop) My favorite saying if my children were complaining about something I asked them to do 'my way or the highway'. Why Mum, 'because I say so, that's why' Joy.

Just remembered some more! When someone left the door open - 'Were you born in a field with the gate open?' When someone said something that surprised her- 'Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!' 'Will 'e 'eck as like!' 'Daft as a brush' or 'daft as a balm cake'. And I remember when I was working with a Jamacan nurse, I said something about the changes being brought in by a new Sister, and I quoted that one about 'a new broom sweeps clean'. She turned to me with a wink and finished it off with 'But an old broom knows all the corners'.! I'll always remember that one - us oldies DO have a value! Bx

Whenever we lost or lose something my mum always say's 'if I find it I'll throw it ya' esp if it's something important that we really need/needed and are getting stress about it. We use to cringe in case she did find it coz most of the time it was our school shoes or something heavy!

My mum used to say 'you'll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute' Ann x

My least favourite thing as a child was being dragged along to pay last respects to the deceased . Mother and her cronnies would stand around the coffin and say ' he's looking well isn't he ' ???? or ' he's not like himself ' ??? makes no sense does it !!!! Kathy

Another saying back then was when we pulled a face ' If the wind changed you will stay like that ' Made no difference to me anyway I always looked as though I was born inside out Colin :):)

Joy- I like 'my way, or the highway'! When the kids were little and being unco-operative, we'd say 'We can do this the easy way, or the hard way!' It usually worked! Bx

what part of NO do you not understand, the N or the O. I sound like a right stroppy mother. When I heard a child screeching at her mother the other day in the supermarket 'I need a cake', I felt like getting down to her level and saying to her, Mummy, I would really like a cake, could I have one please. Children are so spoiled today, the parent just put up with her screeching over and over, instead of correcting her. Joy