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to think my Dad is totally wrong to say...

122 replies

Convict224 · 27/11/2012 21:48

...he is going to Blanket Street at bedtime ?

It's Bedfordshire. Via the Wooden Hill.

Clearly.

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Cbh1978 · 27/11/2012 21:50

Eh? All very clear. :-)

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MammaTJ · 27/11/2012 21:50

Aw, that reminds me of my dear Grandad!!

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bruffin · 27/11/2012 21:51

No it's up the apple and pears to Bedfordshire.Wink

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CasperGutman · 27/11/2012 21:52

Takes me back. My gran would always say someone was "going up Wooden Hill to Blanket Fair".

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whois · 27/11/2012 21:52

It's Bedfordshire. Via the Wooden Hill

^ This

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Fakebook · 27/11/2012 21:53

No, it's going to sleep.

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juedanlil · 27/11/2012 21:53

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire Xx

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WorraLiberty · 27/11/2012 21:54

OMG I can't stop laughing at the fact this thread title is right about another, so the front page reads....

"to think my Dad is totally wrong to say..."

"Help, I've lost my mooncup!"

YANBU

No-one wants to hear that from their Dad Grin

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WorraLiberty · 27/11/2012 21:54

*above another

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MrsKwazii · 27/11/2012 21:55

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire is what I've always heard.

That and holidaying in Windowsill Bay Grin

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DrinkFeckArseGirls · 27/11/2012 21:56

Is it some fucking game no one knows a out apart from speshul few?

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PortBlacksandCheeseBoard · 27/11/2012 21:56

My Grandma used to say she'd been to 'ourgate' on her hols (i.e. nowhere)

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CunningPlan · 27/11/2012 21:59

It's Bedfordshire. As any fule know.

Where the hell is Blanket Street? Unles it's in Bedforshire?
Confused

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pointythings · 27/11/2012 22:01

Wooden hill. Bedfordshire. Every time. And I live in East Anglia, so I should know.

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SantasComingFace · 27/11/2012 22:03

If you ask my grandad where he's going he always says

'there and back to see how far it is'

I love funny old sayings Grin

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CheerMum · 27/11/2012 22:04

Another vote for up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire. My mum was pretty dodgy in the maternal stakes but this phrase brings warm memories.

Blanket street? But we have duvets!

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SantasComingFace · 27/11/2012 22:05

And 'shut the door it's coming through the window'

Grin

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grovel · 27/11/2012 22:06

Retired RAF officer neighbour says he is "going to climb to three feet and level out".

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PortBlacksandCheeseBoard · 27/11/2012 22:07

Also from DGrandma ... "i can't do that ... i've got a bone in my leg" Grin

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JeanLouiseFinch · 27/11/2012 22:07

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.

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Gooeyhead · 27/11/2012 22:10

I always say... Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, down sheet lane, to blanket fair!!!!! I really don't know where I heard it first, my parents say they've never said, I just started saying it one night as a child (must have heard it somewhere!!!) Smile

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CoolaSchmoola · 27/11/2012 22:13

Apples and Pears here - no Bedfordshire (or anywhere else).

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CoolaSchmoola · 27/11/2012 22:15

My Gran always used to say "Put t'wood in t'ole" - shut the door Grin.

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BitchyHen · 27/11/2012 22:21

My Grandad used to say "Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, you'll be asleep in two shakes of a lamb's tail"

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MikeLitoris · 27/11/2012 22:24

Its 'up the wooden hill to bedfordshire'

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