The Bluestocking - where Spring has sprung and the grass is riz.

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Welcome all. Can the gerbils please ensure that all the Tunnocks products are safely stowed in the capacious larder, and perhaps the quokkas could be responsible for counting everyone onto the bus and back off at the new thread - many thanks!

To be fair, we're all stunning.

When I was a very young we used to visit my aunt.

There was a sign on the door of her loo/lavatory/wc/toilet/whatever which said “Yere t’is”.

(After I’d written ‘Yere’ the autocomplete offers on my iPad were ‘t’is’, (something else) and ‘Ramsbottom’) ??

That auto get-the-word-changed-quick feature has become awffy sneaky. I disabled autocorrect ages ago (I thought) but it has Ways. When I've finished writing my words, if I don't proofread the offering, there will be Changes. It's worse when I dictate using the microphone. It reliably mishears the first couple of words in a sentence, it takes words out that I wanted in, it capitalises words if I pause to draw breath before completing my sentence. As I am an unreformed pedant, this Does My 'Ead In.

"Yere tez" is the way my Suffolk-dwelling Grandad spoke, when he forgot the elocution lessons he'd had.

I've always liked accents and dialects.

That is beautiful!

The walrus and I spend two nights a week in our own spaces. He at his desk, in front of his many screens, doing computery things that are indistinguishable from his work gliding through the water, and me stuck in front of the TV watching crappy dramas prowling through the grasslands and savanna. It gives us breathing space and time for ourselves.

"Yere tez" is the way my Suffolk-dwelling Grandad spoke, when he forgot the elocution lessons he'd had.

My aunt lived all her life in Derbyshire. I imagine she’d bought the sign on holiday, but I don’t know where.

As MN is 25 years old they have listed 25 threads from Classics as a celebration.

I realise by reporting a comment that simply said "Anal sex" on a thread about Centre Parcs, I didn't get the joke. 😔

Anyway the thread is here for those who need a pick me up.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5302943-mnhq-aibu-to-share-25-of-our-all-time-favourite-classic-threads-to-mark-mumsnets-25th-birthday?page=1

Hot cross buns should be hot out of the oven. If you are unlucky enough to have stale ones I suppose you could toast them.

Back in the day it was reported that Terry Keane only drank Montrachet.

Bread and butter pudding made with HCBs is lush.

I've got lots to do today and can't waste my time crying with laughter over on Classics.

It is almost the weekend though....😁

I wondered why the shrew icecream thread had re-emerged.

I've just added our
Everyone scarper, the rozzers are coming | Mumsnet
to the Classics list😂

I completely agree!!! 🤣😂😃

It's nearly 10 and I've spent the whole morning re-reading it and finding some of my faves, e.g.

'whoop whoop it's the sound of the plaice',
'I'm not sure I want to be sprung by my briefs after being picked up by the fuzz.', 'I'll need to be back home for Christmas though, DH is forrin and can't be trusted to get things right. I'm afraid I'll need to dob a few of you in, in return for my freedom. Soz.'
and the kittens playing with the confiscated shoelaces😄

And then there were all those posts about animal sex...😦

That was a great, if at times very odd, thread. 😂

I noticed a few gems posted by your good self, Arabella.
And some from somebody with 'beetle' in their username, presumably 'of this parish'...?

Hello to Boily, hope you're well and will pop in to the Stocking sometime soon

Fond memories of the 'Scarper' thread.

The capybara want everyone to know that they're responsible for all carpentry and joinery (they assure me there's a difference) in the Bluestocking. So, credit for the tail holes in the furniture rightfully belongs to them. They do have gerbils as builder's mates to fetch and carry the smaller stuff. They also acknowledge that the work is made an absolute pleasure by the gerbils who bring them refreshments while they are on the job.

Someone on the HCB thread quoted me claiming the 'hot' was because of the spices in them. My eldest sprog sometimes, I swear, finds milk a little too spicy and she'll quite happily scarf down a buttered HCB.

I have misdirected everyone with regard to the origins of "yere 'tez". My Suffolk-dwelling grandad in fact hailed from Devon. I think he was escaping his past by living in a tiny thatched cottage in Suffolk with a fantastic collection of spiders in the attic and a very primitive outside toilet - I don't know the Suffolk version, but "yere 'tez" is a Devonshire expression.

I imagine your aunt went to Torquay or Paignton or Exmouth on her holidays. Very nice, too.

Great minds think alike, @ArabellaScott - I said exactly the same thing only the other day.

They do have gerbils as builder's mates to fetch and carry the smaller stuff.
So what you're saying, Cake, is that gerbils are gophers??

HCB are hot because of spices?
😂😂😂😂😂
Has that person ever had an actual, yunno, curry?

We eat serious curries at Stourton Hall*. My DC used to come out of school moaning about school curry and its complete lack of heft.

*I decided that 'Chez Stourton' was ahistorical, considering Edith's era.

One can use melted ice cream instead of custard. Lush.

The Suffolk for "yere 'tez" would be 'That is hare'.

Lots of local quirks. 'I am now going' rather than 'I am going now', and 'Couple or thray' not 'a few' or 'some' (can be more than 3).

I grew up in Norfolk and we had a saying "you'll get wrong" meaning you'll get into trouble.

Interestingly, Suffolk people didn't know what it meant, but my exDP from Darlington did! So I think it's origin must be Viking.

As in coming down the East Coast but not reaching Suffolk enough to penetrate.

The Hiberno-English for 'yere tez' and 'that is hare' is a somewhat obscure
'Now so'.

The Dublin expression 'Dere y'are' would appear to be the same, but in fact it is a greeting: 'Ah, dere y'are!' = hello

@inkymoose wrote: I imagine your aunt went to Torquay or Paignton or Exmouth on her holidays. Very nice, too.

I imagine she did. I remember my family and hers going on holiday for a week to Mullion Cove, near The Lizard.