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Trish Devon

Trish Devon Report 29 Jun 2012 15:51

Some brilliant old sayings on here,
I wonder what ones will be around in years to come.

There might be one that I can think of,my granddaughter when she has a sullen moment,I say to her,
"You will never get any wrinkles",
why's that she replies?
because you never smile,says me.lol!!!!!!!!!
Then she laughs.

Researching:
Webber,Strong. ( Watchet,Minehead,Somerset)Drake,(Plymouth Devon)

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 29 Jun 2012 15:56

I bet my Mum had no idea what The Wreck of the Hesperus was, I bet she never read the poem so it was probably a saying of her Mother's.

Nice, being compared to a shipwreck!!!

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Janet

Janet Report 29 Jun 2012 16:08

Yes AnninG it was a saying when I was a child, haven't heard it for years.-jl

Researching:
Mellors of Fulstone- Haighs of Fulstone- Haighs of Horbury -Fowlers of Sheffield -Ashton/Acomb of Keighley-Broadheads of Mearhouse-Nixons of Bradfield- Hopwood of Dewsbury and Elland-Procter/Proctors of Malham

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 29 Jun 2012 16:09

Good Garden Donuts Ann,!!! . I didn,t mean you. :-D

Researching:

MarionfromScotland

MarionfromScotland Report 29 Jun 2012 16:10

A face like a bulldog chewing a wasp.
Black as the earl of Hell's wastecoat...your dirty

SuffolkVera

SuffolkVera Report 29 Jun 2012 16:13

You're as black as Newgate's knocker was one of my Dad's

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 29 Jun 2012 16:26

My Dad - so thin has to stand twice in the same place to make a shadow!!

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Mauatthecoast

Mauatthecoast Report 29 Jun 2012 16:29


Does anyone else say " she looks like one a'clock half struck" :-S

Geordies do :-D

Researching:
In my own little world where everybody knows me... ..... best thing about happy memories is making them....

IfSixWasNine

IfSixWasNine Report 29 Jun 2012 16:29

When i was younger i would eat anything put in front of me . Never put a lb on in weight .My aunt used to say I was skinny with greed

MarionfromScotland

MarionfromScotland Report 29 Jun 2012 16:43

Has your belly ever thought your throat had been cut? lol

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 29 Jun 2012 17:13

If something worn didn't look quite right mum would say "it looks like a pimple on a haystack"

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 29 Jun 2012 17:16

when persistently asking where something was or have you seen my ?? mum would say" Its up in a nannies room behind the clock "

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 29 Jun 2012 17:23

My mum,s was " up in nannies room behind the wallpaper"

Researching:

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 29 Jun 2012 17:43

Yes, pimple on a haystack and in Nannie's room behind the clock, more of my Mum's.

On looking in or behind ears, 'Just checking to see if any potatoes are growing in there'.

On looking miserable, you've got a face like a wet kipper.


Complimentary my Mum wasn't she?

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 29 Jun 2012 17:49

Another one of mums sayings. if someone was on the thin side they looked like a rasher of wind

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 29 Jun 2012 18:04

Just remembered if somebody looked miserable over nothing. 'It's being so cheerful keeps me going.!'

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

GeordiePride

GeordiePride Report 29 Jun 2012 18:21

He looked as angry as a junk yard dog.

They threw the wrong bit away when he was born !!!!!!

BrendafromWales

BrendafromWales Report 29 Jun 2012 19:13

Ann....remember all yours.My gran used to say them.she had another...a bit rude.....it's as salty as Lots wife's a***.My dad said ,when I was a teenager and thought I was fat....you're as far through as a kipper.

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 Jun 2012 19:53

My dad had been in the navy so it was up the galley on a plate.

martynsue

martynsue Report 29 Jun 2012 19:56

when i was young my gradma used to say,your leg's are so thin i think they might snap,
then my brother's &sister used to call me wednesday leg's,wednesday they going to snap,
if she saw someone with bandy leg's she would say,he/she would never stop a pig in a ginnel,
a ginnel being a alleyway,

sue

Researching:
rudrum-norfok/mangan-ireland/sutton-norfolk/jones-oldham

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