What is it with men? Some men, perhaps, but TOO MANY

'They must think we fell of a flitting' - where does that originate Iam64 - I like it!

My grannie wasn’t born in Bury but in Coventry. Aged about 11-12 she was put into service in the big house. She hated it and along with her younger sister got to Bury where an uncle put them up and got them work in the cotton mill.
She became a Bury lass. Another favourite was “well, I’ll go to the foot of our stairs”
My other gran was Manchester born but married and lived in Bury. Another mill worker and with the same great phrases

My mum used that expression too Iam, born and bred in Yorkshire.

Another one was ‘you know what thought did - followed a muck cart and thought it were a wedding’.

night owl / exactly on the response if we said ‘I think’ - you know what think did followed a muck cart and thought it were a wedding
So, we learned to “think on”

We had Yorkshire relatives / miners with mill work this side of the penines

The older I get the more I value those kind, hard working and it must be said, doting grandparents. One would buy our Easter rocks, the other shoes. Same with school uniforms. I confess to being a doting grannie following their example

Yes Iam, for me it was a response to ‘well I thought….’

Wonderful memories and people Iam, like you I think of them more and more.

We still go to the foot of our stairs in my house, Iam, and unsuitable behaviours are considered likely to be " the talk of the wash-house ".

Oh I’d forgotten that cracker, the talk of the wash house.
I remember early Coronation Street, which mum tried to stop us watching. She thought it was ‘common’ a very serious thing in her world view. She also worried that those in the south would think were all like that awful Elsie Tanner.
My two sisters and I still revert to ‘and think on Martha Longhurst” in the true Ena Sharples manner

Keeping the pot boiling is the Bishop of Liverpool who has resigned after misconduct allegations were made against him, one accuser being a female priest.

Sarnia yes, in my post yesterday afternoon I updated us on the bishop’s resignation

I will be 80 in April and am perfectly aware of this term and its meaning. I doubt my husband is. But if he were, he would never use it. No decent man would.

crazyH

Never liked the man - has a leery look about him

🤣 your comment make me Spit-out my Porridge crazyH

I’ve just had to look it up and must admit I found it revolting, why would a man risk his career, he must know it’s a horrible thing to say.