NO IT ISN'T, KIRSTY!

Love Kirsty/Kirstie, she's the reason my kitchen is fitted out with drawers instead of cupboards. Life changing! (Okay perhaps a tad dramatic but it did make a huge difference.) She can say anything she likes about pudding, I'll share it with her.

sarahellenwhitney Me too ?

And me ?

Isn't Bedales rather non-conformist, nurturing individuality and initiative?

Does that include re-writing the old sayings and proverbs?

Well it seems her parents wasted a lot of money then if people feel she had no edukashun!

She attended Bedales one of the more expensive boarding schools!

oh fick as too short planks innit. daftie........

80% proof alcohol could kill off any bugs!

Prove, originally meant 'to test' (from the Old French - oooh posh! ) just as we 'prove' bread, to make sure the yeast is good.
Pudding was a mixture of meat, fruit and spices, a bit like a sausage and sometimes the meat was off.

Ooh, I had you down as a secret tippler of 80% proof brandy

Jalimal108 Cheers! I actually don’t drink!

Don't listen to the smug woman she just annoys me

and craftergran
Yours is more what I'm used to

80% proof, never heard the like - goes off muttering …….

GreenGran

80% proof

There's rather a lot of dumbing down going on, presumably to keep up wiv da yoof, innit?

Sorry craftergran. I just noticed that you got there before me, but with a little less proof!

The proof is in the Christmas pudding. A nice tot of 80% proof brandy!
Have you noticed how comical the word 'proof' seems after you have read/said it a few times?

Cos they have not had no edukashun Ave they !

There are an increasing number of TV presenters who can’t/ won’t speak properly

Sheilasue I remember hearing someone say "that's like bolting the stable door after the horse has..... er...." She then burst out laughing when she realised what she'd done.

maybe the proof is in HER pudding - 40% proof whisky or something

The pin!! Aha I didn't know that. It makes more sense than penny.
Thanks for the gems on here.
I find I come out with proverbs and sayings more often as I get older and turn into my mother grandmother
We host international visitors and ask them if they have similar sayings in their own languages. They often do.

I get annoyed when I see 'it' s a doggy dog world'. Why can't people get it right?

'Money is the root of all evil'. Sorry, couldn't resist.

I shout at newsreaders for spouting rubbish. What is the world coming to when even the beeb can't speak proper English like wat I do?

I do say both SueDoku although I know that the original is 'pin'.