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

[Convict224]

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

It's Bedfordshire. Via the Wooden Hill.

Clearly.

Eh? All very clear. :-)

Aw, that reminds me of my dear Grandad!!

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

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

It's Bedfordshire. Via the Wooden Hill

^ This

No, it's going to sleep.

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire Xx

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

*above another

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

That and holidaying in Windowsill Bay

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

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

It's Bedfordshire. As any fule know.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.

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!!!)

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

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

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

Its 'up the wooden hill to bedfordshire'