Rings and bands...

Those pilgrim fathers took a number of things over with them. Now it's time to send them back perhaps.
Wedding band is a ceilidh band in my book though autocorrect is desperate for me to write ceiling band.
I wore a wedding ring at one time but it's too small now and anyway I don't wear rings.

Think so gillybob. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Witzend, I am another grumpy old hag who doesn't understand why a ring should become a band.

We had a rather good ceilidh band for DD's wedding, which was certainly not a cause for being grumpy.

I thought "wedding band" was American usage ,it was in use in England during the Civil war as the Puritans forbade the giving and receiving of a wedding band, so I assumed the Pilgrim Fathers took the expression with them, where British English replaced it at some point with "wedding ring".

All Americanisms creeping into English annoy me intensely, I may say.

So he couldn’t......you know ?

^so why did he sleep in a separate room?
I never knew^

Chewbacca's right - the clue's in the lyrics: "hoping soon that you'll walk back through that door and love me like you tried before"

Whoops. So sorry Agus. Hope you eventually slipped into the land of nod. It took me a while but the song is here again this morning. Hopefully after my swing fit class it will have changed to Jack the Knife. Have a lovely day all. X

^so why did he sleep in a separate room?
I never knew^

Reading between the lines Jalima I think there was a link between him (in this song) and that bloody woman in

“it should’ve been me”..........”ohhhhhh lord it should’ve been me”

And.... while we’re at it....... “why did the “preacher raise his hand?” Who was he about to smack?

Oh no?. I had been humming this tune for ages after my visit to this thread this morning. As the day went on, I mentally scrubbed it?

Now the ear worm is back !! And I so look forward to this lullaby at bedtime......NOT

I blame you Annapops ?

Because he wasn't up for it Jalima.

so why did he sleep in a separate room?
I never knew

"We kissed after taking vows, but that night on our honeymoon, we slept in separate rooms......" Wedding band! I shall never sleep tonight now. X

Band of Gold by Freda Payne was the first single I bought with my 'earned money'

Yes, it was, sodapop, but just a jokey term for a wedding ring too
Not that I ever took any notice of that!

I always thought that was a bangle worn on the upper arm Jalima1108 no longer fashionable now.

And mine Annapops - I shall be humming that now! (Who sang that?)

"All that's left is a band of gold........" Showing my age.

I refer to my wedding ring as "my badge of ownership". It took Mr absent a long time to work out who did the owning.

I've heard it termed 'a slave bangle'

Simply place Bandaid over mouth. Sorted!

Jane10 I am willing to try. I just need for my mouth to agree with my head when head says no!!!

Would a Bandaid do as a temporary measure GrannyGravy?

? Grannygravy

The only band I need after 8 weeks of limited mobility is a gastricband................

I think a wedding band is a group of really bad musicians who attempt to entertain people at wedding receptions.