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

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Jitty round here for a small passageway (though that was for a tree-lined passageway through a "naice" village estate - I don't know if the townies would use a different word for a more urban version).

I call my kids eejits when they've done something silly, but not bold when they're naughty.

Eejit I use too (lived in Dublin for a bit and it stuck!!)

Isn't it funny how you would never get away with 'idiot'?

I do silly sausage, lummock, numpty, daftie.

Numpty, silly sausage and daft apath figure in mine too!

Twitten if from the South

Ooh, I’m south and have never heard Twitten!

Muppet. King of the muppets. Numpty.

I call kids plonkers - it's soft enough.

Also a fan of numpty.

Two Xmases ago DD wrote a Xmas card to one of her friends in class and called her a ‘skither’ in it. Cards are placed in a pair of and then delivered. That day I got a phone call from her teacher that the girl who received it was very upset and said DD had called her a horrible word. We’ve told DD not to use Irish dialect at school.

*placed in a post box

How many people still have a week off?

I'm lying here dicking around on the internet and ordering a new stove top expresso pot and spending an age finding proper arabic coffee with cardamom. I'm acutely aware of all the stuff I was meant to get done over the holidays which I haven't done and well aware I should get up and make an effort but totally cba.

I'm back tomorrow and I think at this point lazing around, in very much for inside only but not quite pjs, is more needed than getting stuff done. I did have a glance at my targets for the year in term for my mid year review tomorrow but that's about it.

It's late enough for a gin isn't it?

Here's another one - is truanting skiving or wagging?

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Isn't it funny how you would never get away with 'idiot'?

I do silly sausage, lummock, numpty, daftie.

DD came home in Yr 1 and said ‘so and so got sent to Headteacher’s office for calling X the ‘s’ word’. I asked ‘so a kid said the rude word for poo and what was the consequence?’. DD replied ‘no, not that word. STUPID’.

Wagging. Swiftly clamped down on by the Wag Officer.

My old head of department’s wife was a ‘wag’ officer.

Have u had the hail honey? Sleet forecast for later.

Never heard of twitten in my life! Twit, twitty, pillock, plonker

I've still got a week. I've been and got ingredients for nice dinner but I can't be arsed.
Skiving here.

There seemed to be a flurry of something in between snow and hail an hour or so ago Jan.

In June 1994 me and my mate wagged to go and see Boyzone. I didn’t even like them.

She promised me 4 Diamond Whites though!

I have forgotten Glaswegian words for truancy . Bunking is local. Bunking off. Skiving means more dossing about.

It was skiving here - wagging was a 'towny' or common word

I still use ‘dossing’!

It took me a long time to realise no one knew what a skelf was or what I meant by ' where do you stay?'.

I have this feeling truanting was dogging but that's a bit unfortunate!

I am back tomorrow. In denial. DH has another week.