Single hen

[keyhole kate]

Thanks Rona

I have been going to Wells for about 20 years and there isent a week goes by where idiots take no notice of the warning signs (tide flows very very fast) the flood siren sounds alerting you to start back NOW but they ignore it carry on with the kids & dogs etc and have to be rescued by the inshore there have been many drownings there even though my youngest is 15 and swims like a fish she knows it is more than her lives worth to swim or be on the far side of the channel without her dad. It makes me cross I think the RNLI should charge them for the call out perhaps they would be more sensible.

 

Flora Fauna Merryweather Valerie

Maisie

Princess Aurora Maleficent (Due to be adopted) 3rd week in Aug

Living the life of Riley in a

Tetley and Beaney, The black cat sisters.

[Gamebird]

What about tablet, lees macaroon bars, penny caramels. a square loaf and of course there's no black pudding quite like what they make in scotland.

Now you're talking

 

I was born and brought up in Clarkston and Newton Mearns (south of Glasgow). My father was from Paisley and mother from Essex. She didn't go down too well with the Scottish relations. They thought my Dad was a traitor for marrying her

 

I loved macaroon bars and my friend's mum made the best tablet ever.

 

My grandfather used to buy me a poke of sweeties every week from the corner shop.

 

Not sure if it's a Scottish thing but I used to love Mars Bar sandwiches

 

Amazingly, I'm not fat and don't have a heart problem

[keyhole kate]

Hi Gamebird

My ma was a bus clippie and used to work out of Newton Mearns but garage

my Da worked for GLW corporation Water Board they both originally came from possilpark we lived in pollokshaws and later in Shawlands where I went to Shawlands Academy I still keep in touch with some school through friends reunited As for tablet my friend from kirkaldy's sister makes it I am going to ak for the recipe Like you I am not fat and have no heart problems yet I seem to have everything elso drooping,dropping off or falling apart though I was told it is an age thing by my GP when I got was fine he nearly fell off his chair

 

 

Flora Fauna Merryweather Valerie

Maisie

Princess Aurora Maleficent (Due to be adopted) 3rd week in Aug

Living the life of Riley in a

Tetley and Beaney, The black cat sisters.

[Rona]

I was born and brought up in Clarkston

I was born in Clarkston too (58 Randolph Drive) but moved to Argyll when I was a few months old and stayed there until I left home at 17.

 

Both my parents were English

[clootie]

Hello Gamebird, my outlaws still live in Carmunnock!

 

A poke of sweeties........... hee hee. It was treacle toffees the size of old pennies I used to get treated to by a great aunt who had whiskers! She smelled of clean ironing and used to give me a "beardie" when she hugged me! No wonder all my teeth fell out. Well all except one at the front!

 

Did anyone ever go out for the messages on a Saturday morning with their mum and dad?

[Rona]

We used to do the messages for the old people in the village before we went to school. One old boy would get us to get his cigarettes, so of course no one bothered if we went into the village shop to buy 10 capstan - don't know if you can still get them but they were very strong and untipped. They cost 2/6d for 10 and there was about 4 of us could pool our pocket money and pennies earned from doing messages and go and sit down by the burn and puff away :vom: . Then we went to secondary school and could get a pack of 5 tipped ciggies for 1/2d no questions asked. Shocking really to think that it was so easy to get them then.

[Gamebird]

I was born and brought up in Clarkston

I was born in Clarkston too (58 Randolph Drive) but moved to Argyll when I was a few months old and stayed there until I left home at 17.

 

Both my parents were English

 

I was born in the drive next to yours - 47 Monteith Drive. I lived there from 1955 to 1961. There were hardly any cars about then and we used to play in the street which was quite steep. We used to go-cart down the hill and hope for the best we could stop. My sister has scars on her knees to prove we couldn't Happy days

[keyhole kate]

This made me laugh out loud and the cat nearly had a wilkie

[clootie]

I'm laughing at your go-cart Gamebird! My brother made me go on the back behind all his friends facing the opposite direction so that my legs would do all the pushing from the back. We couldn't stop either!

[Gamebird]

Did anyone ever go out for the messages on a Saturday morning with their mum and dad?

When I first moved to England and I talked about going for 'messages' everybody thought I was mad and couldn't undertand what I was talking about

 

I'd say "I've got a skelf in my finger" and I would get the same strange look. As far as they were concerned I came from a foreign land and spoke a foreign language.

 

That was a long time ago and I've now learnt to speak English

[clootie]

Did anyone ever go out for the messages on a Saturday morning with their mum and dad?

When I first moved to England and I talked about going for 'messages' everybody thought I was mad and couldn't undertand what I was talking about

 

I'd say "I've got a skelf in my finger" and I would get the same strange look. As far as they were concerned I came from a foreign land and spoke a foreign language.

 

That was a long time ago and I've now learnt to speak English

 

Hows about Jim McColl and George Baron aka The Beechgrove Gardeners who used to say "I'm just going down the garden to finish a wee jobby" !!

[Louise]

Oh yes a wee jobby

 

I used to say that all the time when I moved to England mind you once it was explained what an English jobby was I stopped

 

I still go for messages even now

 

I struggled with my piece at lunchtime though took me a while to shake that habit

[Gamebird]

I'm laughing at your go-cart Gamebird! My brother made me go on the back behind all his friends facing the opposite direction so that my legs would do all the pushing from the back. We couldn't stop either!

Yep (or "Aye" as I used to say in those days) that sounds familiar

[clootie]

I must get on with the ironing - this forum is so addictive but I'll tune in again later !! (5 minutes later!!)

[Gamebird]

Oh yes a wee jobby

That made me laugh I'd forgotten that one.

 

My Gran used to say "Haud yer wheesht" (I looked up how to spell it!!) if we were getting too roudy and referred to a stupid person as "wee bit glakit"

 

I'm having a lovely walk down memory lane

[keyhole kate]

My OH used to sit there amogst us totally bemused he told me much later he couldnt understand a word we were saying and thought it was gaelic

My Ma once asked him to get her a snib when giong to town he had to confess he had no Idea what she wanted Mind you he is just as bad originally from a village in Suffolk ( I can feel another thread coming) he used to say that so and so was morish which I used to swear he had made up but I have since other people use it

 

I still forget and if we have company and I answer the phone to my brother mum before she passed I imediately and without thinking slip into the old comfortabe scots accent it was only when I saw the jaw drapping look on peoples faces I remember they have no idea of my double accented life

 

I have a wicked sense of humour when asked at a job intereviw once if I spoke any other languages quick as a flash I said scottish I was gobsmacked when the interviewer actually wrote it down

[clootie]

I'm fluent!

 

Oh, the ironing.................

[Louise]

My accent changes too depending on who I talk to

 

I say wheesht to the cats all the time

[keyhole kate]

Oh yes a wee jobby or better stil a big jobby

 

My kids still go into fits of laughter if they here that one

"Haud yer wheesht" was my gran and ma's favourite too

I still use the term glakit handy really very few peiople know what your talking about so you can get away with it pretty freely he he

 

One of my Ma's favourites if she was talking about someone s"Ooops, word censored!"by was her **** bottom would be up in the air if her nose would let her

 

I use that one quite often myself if not in unknown company of course

otherwise if she were a bar of chocolate shed lick herself to death

 

perhaps we could organise a caledonian eglu meet it would be a riot

[Louise]

We had one in Edinburgh a couple of years ago and me and Chookiehen were the only people from North of the border

 

If ever you are in the area

[Rona]

I used to sing Ally bally Bee (sp?) to my grandchildren when they were little, I'm sure they thought I was singing foreign.

 

Ally bally, ally bally bee

Sittin' oan yer granny's knee

Greetin' fur a wee bawbee

tae buy mair Coulter's candy.

 

Puir wee (child's name) wis awfu thin

Jist some baines tied up wi' skin

But noo she's go' a double chin

Frae eatin' Coulter's candy.

 

Ally bally, all bally bee etc....

 

That's all I know. Does anybody know any more verses?

[keyhole kate]

The way things are growing you could well find a lot more interesterd in chicken keeping your way

 

Now thats not a bad idea I could combine some Glasgow retail therapy, square sausage fruit pudding etc at the same time I live close to London Ltn so like hopping on the bus for me I have even been know just to go for the day. I have rels in Livingston so could also impose myself He he or perhaps some of us could come up en masse and book in a weekend near you somewhere

 

Flora Fauna Merryweather Valerie

Maisie

Princess Aurora Maleficent (Due to be adopted) 3rd week in Aug

Living the life of Riley in a

Tetley and Beaney, The black cat sisters.

[keyhole kate]

I know it from being a child but couldnt recite the words

 

my ma used to sing to me & my kids :

Murder murder polis three stairs up

the wuman in the first hoose hit

me wa a cup ma heeds all swollen

ma lips aw cut

murder murder polis three stairs up

 

Another was

Oh yi can shove yer granny af a bus

Oh yah can shove yer granny af a bus

yi can shove yer daddies mammy

but no yer mammies mammy

yi can shove yer granny af a bus :

 

I Have no idea as with alot of sayings and slang

if these were well know on just in our family

 

Certainly would be a good book mmmh now theres a thought

of course this would mean having to undergo severe forum

withrawl

[clootie]

See what you've started Kate with your post!

 

Oor Wullie, Your Wullie, A'body's Wullie! No, it's not rude - just in case the moderator's ready to step in !! heh heh

 

I was a fan of Hen Broon myself !!

[Guest]

I used to sing Ally bally Bee (sp?) to my grandchildren when they were little, I'm sure they thought I was singing foreign.

 

Ally bally, ally bally bee

Sittin' oan yer granny's knee

Greetin' fur a wee bawbee

tae buy mair Coulter's candy.

 

Puir wee (child's name) wis awfu thin

Jist some baines tied up wi' skin

But noo she's go' a double chin

Frae eatin' Coulter's candy.

 

Ally bally, all bally bee etc....

 

That's all I know. Does anybody know any more verses?

 

 

Sing it to Squidger all the time!

 

Ally, bally, ally bally bee,

Sittin' on yer mammy's knee

Greetin' for anither bawbee,

Tae buy mair Coulter's candy.

 

Ally. bally, ally, bally bee,

When you grow up you'll go to sea,

Makin' pennies for your daddy and me,

Tae buy mair Coulter's Candy.

 

Mammy gie me ma thrifty doon

Here's auld Coulter comin' roon

Wi' a basket on his croon

Selling Coulter's Candy.

 

Little Annie's greetin' tae

Sae whit can puir wee Mammy dae

But gie them a penny atween them twae

Tae buy mair Coulter's Candy.

 

Poor wee Jeannie's lookin' affa thin,

A rickle o' banes covered ower wi' skin,

Noo she's gettin' a double chin

Wi' sookin' Coulter's Candy.