Brilliant Graham. Some of these had me falling about. I'd completely forgotten them. Could add EyergooinoopPally? (Are you going to the Palais?) Gerofforullskinyeralive (Go away or I won't be best pleased) Wezzmewinders? (Where are my glasses?) Re playground games : there were crazes. For a couple of weeks it would be skipping ; a sea of twirling ropes from one end to the other ("All in together girls; all out together girls...") while the boys played snobs and 'fag cards'. Then it was all change for 2-ball against the wall (onesies, twosies, threesies, dropsies etc) or The Big Ship Sails through the Ally Ally-Oo. And crates of little bottles with metal tops bulging over the frozen milk that took all of playtime to thaw? Anyone old enough to remember ragged piles of Dandy & Beano and plasticene (all colours in a muddy mix-up) pulled from the cupboard for wet playtime, the shock as the cane met the back of your hand, the effort to hold back tears of rage and pain, the churning in your stomach just before the whistle to start a race on sports day, or the smell of meths and carbolic in the church hall where they sent you - in those days on your own, mark you - to see the school dentist ? Not exclusive to Leicestershire, but fun to recall, I reckon. Did anyone see the whale (what was its name?) that parked up on a lorry in the city centre back in the 1950s or climb on the canon outside the Museum in New Walk? Jill -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Graham Jennings > .......Here’s a cracking site of Leicester sayings > www.angelfire.com/fl2/slang/ > Graham