I have three of the stone hotwater bottles, nothing like them. Eileen

sorry I missed the other one out, we where told it was sky blue pink with yellow dots on it. Eileen

we were told pigs bum and cabbage if we asked what was for tea. Eileen

You are going to be extremely unpopular with our List Administrator if you don't learn to Edit.... but I think "It were 'taters" means very cold! "Clock yer one" is a smack in the clock or face - how about "Knock yer clock round", anybody? As a mate used to tell me, "He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day - but he who fights an' stands his ground, gets his flippin' clock knocked round!" How about the expression "Bobbins" for terrible or rubbish, or "A bumpin' Weight" for a loom weight that is dragging on the deck, hence not doing its job? Ian > when i was a kid and it was time to go to bed she use to say 'right you up > the dancers' and if i didnt she's say 'move it or ill clock you one' One > strange one was 'ee i didnt sleep too well las night it were tatters'? any > ideas graham

Someone was asking (maybe Olive) why we call spider webs cobwebs. I have just finished reading about life in a medieval English village and it mentions that cob is an old word for spider. Veronica in Ontario, Homesick for all this lovely Lanky food.

when i was a kid and it was time to go to bed she use to say 'right you up the dancers' and if i didnt she's say 'move it or ill clock you one' One strange one was 'ee i didnt sleep too well las night it were tatters'? any ideas graham Ian Winterbottom <i.winterbottom@ntlworld.com> wrote:My mother in law used to call it "paralysed milk" and the pasteurised "Cow milk", where she thought the other stuff came from I never knew! Ian ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== The Lancaster Canal Trust: http://www.thelanky.co.uk/ Welcome to Bolton!: http://www.bolton.org.uk/ Liverpool City Council: http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/graphics_version/root/Home/index.asp ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Stop! *Please*. I'm homesick for good old Lanky food! :o(( My sister is coming over here in December for a holiday and she has asked me what I want her to bring! My list has now gone up by a couple of toilet rolls length! Pauline K ----- Original Message ----- From: <VictorOly@aol.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 6:54 AM Subject: [LANCSLIFE] Re: Champ and Colcannon Whoops!! > Sorry folks....the Irish crept in. Should have known if my Dad made it > it > was from the Irish. > > Champ - mashed potato, with finely chopped scallions (spring onions), a > hole > made in the middle with a knob of butter and milk. > > Colcannon - same as, but with finely chopped wilted or leftover cabbage. > > I can still remember one Mars Bar sliced up and shared between the > family, > everyone wanted the end bit with more chocolate, Horlicks or Ovaltine > before > bed and sneaking spoonfuls from the larder. Bread and butter sprinkled > with > hundreds and thousands. Sherbert Lemons, Parma Violets, Cherry Lips, > Coltsfoot Rock, Treacle Toffee that you had to break up with a hamer, > Peanut brittle, > Kayli and a hapenny Spanish, American Cream Soda, Lem Fizz, Black Jacks, > Fruit Salad, Sherbert Fountains, Mint Imperials. > > It's no wonder I have weight problems, what with my Mums Chips and Mayo, > Waffles, Belgian Chocolates and Beer added to the equation. > > I've just eaten and am still thinking of food:( > > GAY > > > Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire > www.members.aol.com/victoroly/genealogy.htm > www.members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm > www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm > www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk > > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Oldham:http://www.oldham.gov.uk/ > Institute of Family History: > http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/humanities/family/famintro.htm > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005

Hi Olive Trousers/pants are called 'striDes' in Oz, but even that term seems to be little used now. Male and female trousers are called pants, seemingly. Remember when women's trousers were called 'slacks'? Dating ourselves, aren't we? :o) Pauline K in Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "olive" <olive.cookson@btinternet.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:59 AM Subject: [LANCSLIFE] Food and sayings > Am really enjoying this. > Kate and Sidney, now that rings a bell, still do not like the Sidney bit. > Making a list for my family as they will probably have not heard of half > the > expressions that we can remember, or the food. > Never heard of tin lally butties, but have heard of condensed milk > butties. > Pants - keks, yes but I thought strikes came from Australia. > What is shaky milk, milk shake? > We used to say bobees for going to sleep > Narnie Sarnie - I give up on this one. > Champ and Colcannon - give up on this one too. > Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels are still going. > Little Hovis loaves - the tins came in a strip of maybe 4 or 6 and when > the > break was baked the > name was on the side of the little loaves. > lither - leather > wortch, bepowlert an' pown ???? > pobbies - warm milk and pieces of bread and a bit of sugar. > e'en, > neb - neb cap, or peaked cap > Preston pies - potato pies without meat. > Raw onion peeled and then sliced into thin slices and split up and then > put into dish of malt vinegar with a dash of sugar. > With so many words to use it does make you wonder why people are so stuck > on > the one swear word today. > Olive > > > > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > The Lancaster Canal Trust: http://www.thelanky.co.uk/ > Welcome to Bolton!: http://www.bolton.org.uk/ > Liverpool City Council: > http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/graphics_version/root/Home/index.asp > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005

On the subject of butter, did anybody ever get Canadian butter during, or just after the war? We must have had it because I remember my dad used to give me a crust with Canadian butter on it as an early morning 'filler' before breakfast. It was divine! I can still taste it. It had that now forbidden ingredient, salt, in it. Absolutely delicious. Pauline K in Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Winterbottom" <i.winterbottom@ntlworld.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] Sayings >> Why did Grandma used to say - get some best butter, what is butter that >> is not best? > Maggie-Ann, margarine. How about "tin-lally butties", condensed milk > sandwiches? > >> My son now says why do we say you drink out of a plastic glass. He >> thinks a glass is a glass, made of glass, his idea is a plastic >> receptacle. > > My grandsons look at me "gone out" when I say "Let me get my pants on", > meaning trousers. To them "pants" are underwear! When I was younger we > also called them "keks" or the more upmarket "strides". > Ian > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Please keep signature blocks to four lines or less. Do not include > surnames you're researching as that impedes the interactive search > process. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005

My mum always used to say, when we were out walking together, to 'put my leg in bed', meaning to link arms. Was this just one of mum's own sayings, or a Lancashire one? Pauline K in Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Winterbottom" <i.winterbottom@ntlworld.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] Sayings > "EE wot?" meant something like "Don't you agree?" By Crypers is "By > Cripes", a euphemism for ""by C****t", like "By Gum" is for "By G*d", I > don't want to offend anyone either! I come from near Rochdale too, and > worked on the Buses there for years! > Ian > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Contact the list admin with any problems, questions or concerns: > lancslife-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005

'What's for tea?' 'Three jumps at the cupboard door and a bite at the nob!' 'What colour is it going to be?' 'Sky blue pink with a yellow border!' So many memories.................. Pauline K in Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Winterbottom" <i.winterbottom@ntlworld.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] Sayings >> Put wood in t`hole > And "Put door on't' latch", lock the "snip" back so I don't get locked > out! >> A jump at t`door and a bite at t`latch - another one for what`s for tea > "Iffit an' sniffit" or "Three runs at cupboard door." >> Queen Anne front and Mary Ann back (house good at front, not so good at >> rear) > "Tha's geet more front nor Blackpool!" - You have a cheek! >> Corporation Pop and Adams Ale, said that on Sunday to my son, what was >> that, said he. Water said I. >> My Grandma was full of these sayings. > Been doin' that sin' Adam were a lad! > So were my grandparents! > Ian > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Lancashire OnLine: http://www.lancashire-online.co.uk/ > Virtual Encyclopedia of Manchester: > http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/index2.html > Dialect: http://www.nyt.co.uk/lancashire.htm > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005

<Anyone remember those big earthenware bottles the "Pop" man as hot water bottles when I was little, pre-Central Heating! We used to have those earthenware bottles shaped like a pig that mum used as hot water bottles, so they became 'piggies' and I *still* call hot water bottles, 'piggies'. My kids think it's hilarious! :o) Cheers Pauline K in Oz -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005

< She also used to drain off some of the gravy after stewing and before filling the casserole because she said it was better to have a "bit extra on the side".> My mum used 'scrag end of mutton' for her hot-pot and she used to give me a cup of the strained off gravy. She used to call it beef tea and said it was good for me! Whether or not it was 'good for me' and I loved it and I used to love getting the soggy part of the pastry which was full of gravy. I can't make a hot pot/tatty pie like my mum. :o( Thanks to all for the lovely memories. Pauline K in Oz PS. Anybody know why we northerners use the possessive 'our' for our siblings? The locals here find it hilarious, but don't understand it. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005

Thought I would give you all the answers - sorry I sent to Lancsgen in the first place. Senior Moment !! Lither - Lazy wortch - work bepowlent an' pown - battered and beaten pobbies - milk, broken bread, heated and sprinkled with sugar e'en - eyes neb - nose or peak on cap snek - door latch or the little knob that was on the Yale lock to either stop the key being turned or to keep the lock open. Busy today so won't be on until tonight. Have a good day all. Pauline in Darwen

Wonderful All my favourite food and now my favourite poem A'm o'ercum Pamela -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.21/96 - Release Date: 10/09/2005

Kathy Bowlin <mailto:kjbowlin@earthlink.net> wrote on Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:17 PM: | Hello, | | As an American cousin, whose ancestors came from Lancashire | in the 1860's, | I've lost all these wonderful links to the customs and foods of the | homeland. I'm wondering if there is someone on this list who | might have a | recipe for "meat and potato pie" that they would be willing | to share? I'd | like to try my hand at it, and see what I am missing. We have in the | family, a recipe passed from my great grandmother for a sweet pudding | of some sort, but it is written with things like "a handful" of | this or a"dash" | of that, and sometimes measurements that we can't figure out | in this day and | age. I don't own a copy of it, since it belongs to a cousin | who won't | share. Can anyone help me out? | | Kathy Bowlin | Missouri, USA | Kathy, Have a look at http://tinyurl.com/dd3jm -- Rodney HALL Heywood, Lancashire Suaviter sed fortiter Agreeably but powerfully ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ rmh@rmhh.co.uk http://rmhh.co.uk/ http://rmhh.org.uk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And just to add Barley Sugar, Jubbly`s, Lucky Bags and Flying Saucers. My son came home with a bag of Flying Saucers not long ago and left them in the kitchen .......... far too tempting so we decided to try one for old times sake. Ooops, we ate most of them! Maureen

As I have none of these to eat, no pies etc. either - well, I am off to bed. Probably dream of food, hope I do not wake up feeling very hungry. Olive

Goodness, I almost forgot about that... Nannie used to talk about Our Edith, a cousin of my mother's. I thought it was part of her name until Our Will came up in conversation. You all have me missing my grandmother something fierce, she was one of a kind. Told a good tale, too. Good people should live to be 200 or more years old.... Sally in TN, USA > Pauline K in Oz > PS. Anybody know why we northerners use the possessive 'our' for our > siblings? The locals here find it hilarious, but don't understand it.

Loved Canadian butter. It was so much better than American, but then I was used to "oleo," a term the younger listers probably would not recognize. -----Original Message----- From: Pauline Kirschner [mailto:pdk541@bigpond.net.au] Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 7:51 PM To: LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [LANCSLIFE] Best butter On the subject of butter, did anybody ever get Canadian butter during, or just after the war? We must have had it because I remember my dad used to give me a crust with Canadian butter on it as an early morning 'filler' before breakfast. It was divine! I can still taste it. It had that now forbidden ingredient, salt, in it. Absolutely delicious. Pauline K in Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Winterbottom" <i.winterbottom@ntlworld.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] Sayings >> Why did Grandma used to say - get some best butter, what is butter that >> is not best? > Maggie-Ann, margarine. How about "tin-lally butties", condensed milk > sandwiches? > >> My son now says why do we say you drink out of a plastic glass. He >> thinks a glass is a glass, made of glass, his idea is a plastic >> receptacle. > > My grandsons look at me "gone out" when I say "Let me get my pants on", > meaning trousers. To them "pants" are underwear! When I was younger we > also called them "keks" or the more upmarket "strides". > Ian > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Please keep signature blocks to four lines or less. Do not include > surnames you're researching as that impedes the interactive search > process. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 9/09/2005 ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== Lancashire OnLine: http://www.lancashire-online.co.uk/ Virtual Encyclopedia of Manchester: http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/index2.html Dialect: http://www.nyt.co.uk/lancashire.htm ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx