Reply to: I casted a clout : am I doomed?

[thunderlizard]

"and there's a car going along the B3352"

[thunderlizard]

Nuts In May

A Mike Leigh television play starring Roger Sloman as Keith and Alison Steadman as Candice-Marie. One of my guilty pleasures!

[DaveB]

Nuts in May - wasn't that a drama in the 70's with two of the most annoying characters on the planet in it? was it Candice Marie and ken or something - or has my brain turned into jelly tots again?

You mean this one?

[DaveB]

That lovely Catherine Zeta Jones person was in it...

You're thinking of the Darling Buds of May. And she was certainly budding out all over in that.

[Pogle]

My brother in lizardhood is right. It's not May the month, it's May the Hawthorn blossom.

Likewise, "Here we go gathering nuts in May" should probably be "Here we go gathering knots of may"

Nuts in May - wasn't that a drama in the 70's with two of the most annoying characters on the planet in it? was it Candice Marie and ken or something - or has my brain turned into jelly tots again?

[thunderlizard]

Hello me dearioes

My brother in lizardhood is right. It's not May the month, it's May the Hawthorn blossom.

Likewise, "Here we go gathering nuts in May" should probably be "Here we go gathering knots of may"

[EternalOptimist]

If I said it once, I said it a million times


nice beaver

[Pogle]

True.
It's changing, ever so slowly, for the better though.


anyway, you aint allowed to say bollocks, being a lady and religious and stuff.

[BrowneIssue]

I think cloutie means cloth.

And, for the benefit of the Southern wankas, in the context of the saying, a 'clout' is a vest.

PS where 'vest' can be a weskit.

[EternalOptimist]

Well that explains it, Liverpool is full of bollocks.

True.
It's changing, ever so slowly, for the better though.


anyway, you aint allowed to say bollocks, being a lady and religious and stuff.

[Pogle]

Well that explains it, Liverpool is full of bollocks.

[EternalOptimist]

Where exactly does/did your granddad wear his scarf?!

In Liverpool

[Pogle]

I liked my grandads expression,

In May, your scarf dont doff
lest your fckng balls freeze off

Where exactly does/did your granddad wear his scarf?!

[EternalOptimist]

I casted a clout : unfortunately forgot to check my calendar and realized it is still May.

Am I doomed?

I did the coast to coast walk about twenty five years ago. After trudging through the lakes from St Bees for a few days, we walked around a corner and saw,dead ahead, a 'Cloutie Tree'.

It was a massive oak festooned with beautiful coloured ribbons and scrap of cloth. Some had messages, one was from a Japanese lad who promised his dad that he would travel to England and put up a ribbon for the ancestors.

I think cloutie means cloth.

[EternalOptimist]

I liked my grandads expression,

In May, your scarf dont doff
lest your fckng balls freeze off