The Forty Fifth Republic - Can I get a hair appointment before the summer term starts?

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Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation. Do not sit on the chairs and do wear a mask

My dad grew us in ‘blood sandwiches’. Basically ketchup on bread.

*up on

No, rolls are what you put your sausages in for hot dogs 😆

Them’s barm cakes, motherrunner. Nowt else, just barms.

I have a slight Northern accent, DH has a Southern one. DS can say ‘path’ and ‘bath’ in either accent and not sound weird

Love a Northern accent. Sounds so homely!

They literally turn into a bun fight

🤦‍♀️ That was terrible.

Can we move onto discussing what these are called?

@noblegiraffe Pumps! And the DCs still have to wear them (although is not not like when I was at school and it was vests and pants).

Pumps obviously.

They're daps, noble
They live in your dap bag.

I have never heard of ‘daps’.

Sandshoes.

Plimsolls round here. Usually spelt plimsoles by anyone who emails about them...

Meant DC wear them with kit. Really need to out my glasses on!

I teacher voiced - not too loud, but so others could hear, and polite - two blokes in their 20s on the Tube in October (the last time I visited grandchildren at home). Their masks were hanging round their chins. One looked cross but his friend nudged him and said something, I like to think “just do what she says, mate”. They put their masks on properly.

PUT.

I give up.

It took me about 5 minutes to type that post. My spellchecker went into existential meltdown.

I didn't know you had even had a spellchecker, piggy. Assumed it had given up and switched off a long time ago

I moved around a lot as a kid and encountered daps, pumps and plimsolls. Can't remember which went with which area of the country though.

They are Pumps, noblegiraffe

We buy the pumps from Sainburys and they’re labelled as ‘plimsolls’ so wonder if that’s the official name. Still pumps though.

Plimsoll is a nautical term, isn’t it? So they are grippy, light deck shoes for sailors.

Y’pumps go in y’ pump bag. With your name hand embroidered on it by y’Mum.

Definitely plimsolls (which I would have misspelt if it hadn't already been written here).

Cobs to my black country relatives, rolls here in my world, baps to the relatives more Leicestershire way. I think west country are 'baps' as well?

Not sure where, 'you've got a cob on today' comes into this?

Ours were plimsoll bags! Pumps sounds Americanised to me.

I just heard a whiney voice in my head saying, 'please don't make me go back to school tomorrow'. So, please don't make me go back to school tomorrow! Can you write me a note?

Deffo plimsolls. And those were rolls back there.

I’m so glad others also use their teacher voice when out and about. I used it a lot in soft plays when it was school holidays and you have the bigger kids running riot whilst their parents ignored them. Other parents would say thank you - you’re right though they could have said something themselves but never seemed to...

I say ‘you’ve got a cob on’ when the kids are ‘mardy’.

In terms of regional foods my Black Country Nan (my other nan did live in the BC too but originated from Hampshire so was ‘posh’) always had sterilised milk. I’ve never seen it sold anywhere other than round here!