Define "Twinge"

From Facebook Archives

20 November 2022 at 21:21

I'm sitting knitting, quietly watching a recording of 

The Saint when Fester comes in, trouserless.   

He grins winsomely and coyly flaps the legs of his boxers at me saying "Clean on today."

“Good … Why's that?”

"Well I had a ... twinge of some sort."

So like the home life etc.

Sorry! Pardon! What?

Beware the links in the comments link to some very RUDE THINGS

From Facebook Archives

18 November 2022 at 15:09

I'm at LDNE knit'n'natter session and one of the staff has brought in her grandson's bichon puppy to meet the ladies, who make a huge fuss of him.

Then the CEO comes in and says "We're going to have a Dog & Cake session.   

So many of the staff have puppies and our service users love seeing them.   

Think Cat Cafe but with puppies.  There'll be tea and cake and we'll charge £3 or something."

Which would have been all well and good only I misheard the "and" as "ing" and was in fits of giggles in a corner.

And, of course, I had to explain why I was laughing.

Then one of the ladies asked what the word meant and I chickened out with 

"Oh it's very rude."

Some things our ladies need to not know.

This was after I'd walked in and one of the staff said, in a complimentary way, 

"Oh, you look just like Vera."

To be fair I was aiming more for Miss Marple.

Miss Doozer  https://g.co/kgs/ad3sTg  GOOGLE.COM  Dogging  Dogging

Bentonbag  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u4hAxi5b6o  YOUTUBE.COM  "You Went Dogging?!" | Peter Kay

Cold Cure

From Facebook Archives

17 November 2014 at 09:57

Full of lurgie.

Sneezing myself inside out, full of snot, sore throat, cough, runny eyes, achy shoulders and running hot and cold.

Mr Mull  You take care - get them all to wait on you (as if).

Bazoukiboy  The thought of being looked after by the boys... 😃

Miss Fiddle  Look after yourself and try and get the others to....

Mrs Treasurer  Missed you at the 'photo shoot' this morning*. Hope you are feeling better soon.x

Bess Cavalier  Look after yourself. You need to be well again by Friday!

Bentonbag:-

Mrs Treasurer - I was really looking forward to it but didn't think it would be fair to risk giving this to any of the kids, or adults for that matter.\

Bess  - I'm stuffing myself full of clementines and drinking gallons of herb tea with honey.

And if that doesn't work I'm going for Granma's raw onion sandwich cure.

Mrs Lasagne  Oh horrible get well soon Ben xxx

FifoD  Another cure is to have an onion half beside where you sleep.. To absorb the germs as you breath x

KA Will NOT see you at The Mayors listening event for carers tomorrow, I hope!!! stay where it's warm and get better soon.x

🧅🧅🧅

*The PTA had raised enough funds for Woodlawn school to take delivery of a new Sunshine Coach.

Translations

From Facebook Archive

16 November 2021 at 09:22

I'm afraid anticipation of the cold got the better of me and I stayed in and knitted last night, rather than go to the WI (which would have involved wrapping up warm in a room with all the windows open).   

Also Only Connect is one of the few tv programmes Fester and I watch together.

Today's pre-farm plan is to empty/harvest one of the potato bins.  Ferretfingers loves scrabbling around looking for them.  We had four and got a stone out of the biggest.  This is #2 so there will probably be less.

Mrs Jeremy  I love watching Only Connect as well. You might have seen our younger son appearing with his team, The Steelers, in previous episodes this series.

Bentonbag We undoubtedly did, but didn't notice the connection.

Drummerman  If rastaman came from Barnsley the accent might be thicker: we came across the Frumptarn Guggenband at a folk festival- they explained the first part of the name as “Are you from Barnsley?”.

Mrs Leftfoot  Wow Drummerman you're the only other people we know who have mentioned seeing them.  We saw them both years at Towersey.

Drummerman  Saw them at Derby Folk Festival twice.

Woolerwoman  I love Only Connect - I sit rapt in wonder every week.

Bentonbag  When she was a WAAF my mother once had to decode a message from one of the other storekeepers, a Yorkshireman, about something which had been delivered but nobody could find.  The note read "Put int anger whalt mornin."  After interrogating him they discovered it meant "Placed in the hangar until the morning."

Drummerman  Apparently Aberdeen is known in some quarters as “Furry Boots Town”: “Furry boots are ye frae?”.

 

Familiar Face And Accent

From Facebook Archives

14 November 2019 at 20:00

Did any other Llandeilo/Tregib people see Britain's Lost Masterpieces on BBC4 last night?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/britains-lost-masterpieces-series-4…

Half way through a Prof William Jones pops up talking about the history of Cardiff.

I was in a cottage on the Cragside estate near Rothbury in Northumberland with Pearl and other female friends.

We didn’t have the telly on much (talking preferred) but last night we did watch BBC Four Britain’s Lost Masterpieces.   

I saw a familiar face and said “I’m sure I went to school with him!”

Got home and was half way through telling Fester when he came out with 

“Oh yes, I remember that bloke.  I remember thinking ‘my goodness that’s a heck of a Carmarthenshire accent, I’ve heard a lot of that recently...’” 

(we went home at half term)

So I googled him.

There can’t have been two William Jones from Llandeilo that looked so similar.

Now I know how people felt when they saw me on  The Weakest Link.