Yes - especially when Gill & Norm walk into the same pub in Queniborough that my wife and I were in & just sitting down to dinner in August 2010. My company provided auctioneering services to their building materials manufacturing business here in Western Australia! The world is getting smaller and smaller! Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John & Jan Marchant Sent: Saturday, 4 February 2012 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Victorian Letters 3 Absolutely! We've been here in Oz for nearly 47 years but that sort of talk never leaves our memories! Jan Marchant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gill Goddard" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [LEI] Victorian Letters 3 > Hi Brian, "Ay up me duck" and frit are very Leicester. We've been in > Australia 31 years and my Husband still talks like this. Gill. >