Brian's Bits

By Kanyl

Fyulls an Bairns?

       Another "Motherism".  
For the, possibly, uninitiated; I grew up in a household where "Granny" was referred to, and addressed as, "Mother".
       Rightly, or wrongly, my rationale is thus - her parents were literally Victorians; born in the mid to late 1800s. Consequently Mam probably addressed them as "Mother" and "Father" as opposed to Mam & Dad; so we followed suit calling "Gran" Mother.
       I may have used this before "Fyulls an Bairns should nivver see a job hawf finished."  This "job" caught my Eye.  I beheld a cluster of green-tipped cream-coloured flowers.  I, obviously, recognised them and zoomed in for a smell.  THEN I saw the Label proclaiming them as "White Pearl".
      T B H; personally I preferred the "Hawf- finished" version. 

Another motherism; I'll probably never employ:-
       "This, an better, might dyu, this an warse nivver will." 
not to mention "This'll nut pay t'old body her ninepence."   
Much more of this and my "Spill Chucker" is SURE to have a mental breakdown.   ;¬)


BOTH taken today - but believe it or not you're looking at a composite of two photos; I'll not go into the why. 

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