They cant call their house this?

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I have just been to visit my Aunt and Uncle, both early 80s, very quiet living couple.
They live in a culture de sac of other retired folks.
They have put up a sign on the gatepost at the end of their drive.
They proudly made it themselves.
The house is now named "Belle End"
Do I tell them??

I like words and word games, and I'm a bit bemused by this thread. B'day is presumably a homophone for bidet, and Ty Bach = tie-back (?).

So what. This is the equivalent of children inserting an 'I' on signs advertising rentals to covert TO LET into TOILET.

P.S. I'm pretty certain OP's aunt and uncle know, especially if the aunt used to run things in a branch of the WI.

You wouldn't assume a woman didn't know what a vulgar word meant because she was a long-term poster on mumsnet, would you?

Don't tell them

What on earth makes you think the WI is so straitlaced? The one I belong to has a core of octogenarian ladies with a plethora of filthy jokes and a good line in innuendo. All lovely people but reassuringly human and real. unlike this claptrap

Can I tell them? Please?

He is a lay minister in their local church and she is president of the WI

Yeah, they know what Belle End is and are having a laugh.
The WI are the worst.... my aunty has been going to WI for about 5 years now (she's 73) and she said she's learned so much since she started going and not just from the educational talks they have...
She's had her eyes opened she says (and she loves it).

@Howmanysleepsnow

A bidet (US: /bɪˈdeɪ/ ( listen) or UK: /ˈbiːdeɪ/) is a plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the genitalia, perineum, inner buttocks, and anus of the human body. It may be located next to the toilet in the toilet room.

I suspect the WI is live action mumsnet.

Assuming WI members don't swear is like those tiresome people who come on here and tell us they are shocked that a site for mums contains so many swearwords. The ones who tell us that mums shouldn't swear.

I wouldn't say anything - they might become local celebrities.

I wonder whether someone has mischievously suggested this name to them, knowing they would not realise the meaning.

I do remember a few years ago now when John Humphrys on the R4 Today programme didn't understand why the other presenters were sniggering at the thought of renaming of a football stand "The Bell End". I think the football club went with the name "The Colin Bell Stand eventually.

John Humphrys genuinely seemed to think that a bell end was something to do with camping (which it is)

@Scarbadas. 😂😂

If my mam was still alive, she'd be in her 80s and would most certainly know what it meant.

They know fine!

Tell us OP, do they grow any pampas grass?

We went to a house viewing some years back and it was on Bell End Lane, my mum couldn’t understand why we were laughing... she was about 65 then. There again my 34 year old rugby playing partner didn’t know what a pearl necklace was either 😮

Photo or it didn't happen!

Favourite Mumsnet thread of all time.

Snigger.. ..

That’s amazing

I am 75 and I know what it means.

They know what they have done.

I booked a BnB in Ireland once solely on the grounds that it was called Clochard, which means "tramp" in French. Apparently the owners were Clodagh and Gerard or something.

French adjectives are almost always after the noun, but beau / belle is an exception.

'Culture-de-sac' should absolutely be a word. I can see it in my mind's eye.

I see it as the place woodchip and anaglypta went to retire.

Cloch ard ('klukh-aurd') would mean high or tall rock in Irish. Probably not anything to do with Clodagh and Gerard.