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Y’pumps go in y’ pump bag. With your name hand embroidered on it by y’Mum.
I remember being taught chain stitch and doing it myself. It was rather wobbly and crap... but I reckon I can probably do chain stitch.

Thank God that Stikins were invented otherwise my kids would be buggered. Sometimes I’m tempted to slap one on them.

We were taught all the basic stitches and some fancier ones at primary school. Boys and girls. On close weave material, no 18 count Aida to help us in the 70s.
Very occasionally we do a DT project at my school that involves sewing. Over the last 7 years there I have only seen maximum 3 or 4 children (Yr5) able to hand sew. The majority have no clue where to begin.

I had to chain stitch my name onto my PE kit too. Why was that a thing?

That sounds like I expect them to be able to turn out samplers by Yr6
We make such a big deal out of fine motor skills, patience and planning, it just seems to be a shame a 10yr old can’t hold a needle the right way up.

Rolls, plimsolls and squash/cordial (before any Scots go on about diluting juice ). All, I believe, the "proper" words for things, according to the labels .

‘Diluting juice’????!!!!

I call fizzy drinks 'pop' and apparently that's not right.

Squash here. Oh and fizzy drinks were 'pop'.

And you could buy pop off of the milk floats and then get your deposits back when you returned the glass bottles.

I have a scar on my foot from when the milk man delivered the pop and I picked up the bottle (despite being told no) and promptly dropped it, it shattered and I cut my foot. Think my mum was more bothered that the pop bottle broke.

Plimsolls and bread buns. We do have diluting juice though, as DH is Scottish. I let him have that one.

I used to think the ‘dilute’ on the Vimto bottle was an adjective.
“Dilute to taste”
Ahhh, this Vimmy is simply wonderful, so absolutely dilute to taste!

Very funny noble ! It in fact bullies me about plimsolls and yet is so used to my egregious typos that it is completely accepting of them as sensible words.

I have never heard of diluting juice.

I didn't really grow up in a squash household, mind. We may ahve had Ribena lying about the place. My gran used to have condensed milk. Vom.

I have always thought people who say cordial are posh.

Having an American mother I always called any fizzy stuff soda. Got a bit confusing when I discovered Soda water. Soda Stream made perfect sense either way, I guess.

The round bread things are rolls. Morning Rolls if lovely crusty topped ones with flour sprinkled on.

Roll (but round here the locals would call it a batch), plimsolls (locals call them pumps) and squash.

What about this thing? I'm going with alley.

Lane.

That's a lane Harriet. As in "I'm playing out on the back lane mam"

I would say alley but the students would say ginnel.

Back alley. If it was from the street to the rear of the houses it would be a side alley or ginnel.

I’m with @Saucery on that. A Lane round here is a road that has no pavement.

Probably alley but I think some in my family would say passage. Cue back passage jokes.

Longtime lurker having to delurk for a language discussion! Bread buns and sandshoes (or pumps). I live down south know and am constantly confused by people using bins to describe sweet cakes.

I got so confused in Wales when people used to say they would get home from one town to another 'over the lanes'. I was surprised when we got into cars and drove some distance over what looked like pretty much main roads.