Need to stop being mardy crow!

dalrymple23

What in the name of heavens does "mardy crow" mean?

Sulky, petulant!

Narnia I only just saw your post. So you already had the kick up your backside . I take DH means darling husband. Your birthday may not have gone the way you wanted but at least you have your husband.
I spent my 46th crying most of the day as my husband died 2 months before.

Sending hugs, I totally understand and it hurts xxx

I’m also not totally sure what the problem is….but then I don’t really celebrate birthdays. Perhaps try to let it all go and move on…there are surely more important things to worry about, with respect.

Goodness, all that bother for birthdays. A card, a phone call, are fine for me. I do usually receive presents but flowers, extra special chocolates, a postal cream tea even and I am more than happy that I've been remembered. You need a bit of a rethink about birthdays.

Maybe plan your day yourself next year?
...and then tell the family your plans!

This, every time 👍🏻

Dalrymple it’s a lovely old expression a ‘mardy cow’ is a moody, moany person

Thanks all appreciate all the replies, as i said I'm over it now, moved on.
I just needed a mardy moment.
Not sure why some member decided that i needed to be messaged privately to be told she's no idea what I'm on about!!
Some people should just scroll on!

Glad you're feeling better Narnia . We all have our 'mardy' moments and there's nothing wrong with that .

Nice that you came back to update us about how you're feeling now.

Oh! I was just having a little scroll of Gransnet & saw this topic & immediately thought that MrIlovedogs22 had highjacked my account! Good to know that I'm not the last surviving Mardy Cow!
There's hope for our future! David Attenborough will be pleased.
Unless my DH decides to finally cull me .😉

Oh did he say Mardy Cow or Moody Crow???
I never reads things properly!
I'm actually a silly Cow!

Cows aren't silly! Crows might well be.

BlueBelle

Dalrymple it’s a lovely old expression a ‘mardy cow’ is a moody, moany person

I guessed it meant that, but it was only a guess!😄

Sadgrandma

Narnia
I get where you are coming from. After all the fuss made of your DH for his special birthday you, quite naturally expected a bit of a surprise for yours too so you were disappointed, I think I would have been as well. Do I assume that you played a big part in the organisation of your DH’s surprise? Unfortunately men are not good at such things and, as you’d already had a holiday perhaps your DH and family thought you’d be happy with that. Also sI assume that, as you’d all already been away, your DD and DS probably couldn’t afford or had time for another break. I ‘m sure none of them would have deliberately wanted to upset you. Therefore, try and put it out of your mind and move on. As other GN’s have said some people get nothing for their birthdays and spend them alone so try to focus on what you did have.

We all know that it’s not that men aren’t good at this sort of thing. They just can’t be bothered and know there will be no comeback.

I'm a bit confused by your post,sorry.. Sounds like a lovely time. What actually is the upset?

Mojack26

I'm a bit confused by your post,sorry.. Sounds like a lovely time. What actually is the upset?

Oh dear!

nanna8

I haven’t heard the word ‘Mardy ’ for years and years since I lived in the UK so thanks for the blast from the past Narnia! Hope you are feeling better now.

Well, I keep wondering if it's meant to be mardy cow not crow.
I've heard the term mardy cow (never used it) but never mardy crow!

It's a Midlands term dalrymple23
Any sign of whingeing or moaning and my mother would tell me not to be mardy.

I used to say to my DC "I can't stand mardy children, especially if they're my own!"

Glad you're not mardy any more, Narnia!

It was used to describe a grizzly baby - mardy baby- when I lived in Lancashire. That was in the 1960s.

My mother was a Yorkshire woman, living in Lancashire and mardy was a word used by her.

Used in Merseyside as well.

Mardy is also used in the East Midlands.

Narnia

Thanks all appreciate all the replies, as i said I'm over it now, moved on.
I just needed a mardy moment.
Not sure why some member decided that i needed to be messaged privately to be told she's no idea what I'm on about!!
Some people should just scroll on!

Good to hear, glad you're back on form! We all have our moments 🥰 . I've been a right mardy crow too this week & it was also my birthday🙈 must be something in the air 😉🤣 .. belated HB to you

I’m a widow with no children. For my Birthday, I’ll get a card from my sister (whom I visit each Christmas - a four and a half hour train journey), and a couple of Cousins (one of whom lives in the USA).
So - I have invited two friends from Church to Afternoon Tea at a local Restaurant (I’ll pay). They are good people, and I’m pretty sure that I’ll get two extra Birthday cards this year (though that’s not why I invited them!)