Wot yer(your) Mam used to say!!
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 2:30 am
a) "Can you make a noise quietly"?
- a response to clonking about the house
b) "It's a lair to catch meddlers"
explanation relating to anything or anyone for which/whom a trap has been laid - even a question!
c) "If you want you don't get - if you don't ask you won't get - so wait until you are 'given"
- immediate response to me saying I want (rather than need) some chattel or other - my mother hated the wore 'want' it was akin to bad manners .... one should never 'want' - rather - one should 'like to have' something ... it was all about greed.
d) "if you want it you'll have to go out and earn it ... and don't forget when you've been paid - what you owe me"
- self evident!
e) "you can't expect me to buy you that ... go out and get yourself a little job before you go to school"
- this to a lad who had at any one time between the age of 12 and 15:- a) a early morning milk round in Scotland b) a paper round before (and on some day) after school c) a butchers message boy on Saturday mornings. Not forgetting the 'NE Scotland spud picking weeks' - departure from school curriculam for a couple of weeks each year (for which each of us volunteers were paid).
HMS Ganges ... a dawdle!!!
- a response to clonking about the house
b) "It's a lair to catch meddlers"
explanation relating to anything or anyone for which/whom a trap has been laid - even a question!
c) "If you want you don't get - if you don't ask you won't get - so wait until you are 'given"
- immediate response to me saying I want (rather than need) some chattel or other - my mother hated the wore 'want' it was akin to bad manners .... one should never 'want' - rather - one should 'like to have' something ... it was all about greed.
d) "if you want it you'll have to go out and earn it ... and don't forget when you've been paid - what you owe me"
- self evident!
e) "you can't expect me to buy you that ... go out and get yourself a little job before you go to school"
- this to a lad who had at any one time between the age of 12 and 15:- a) a early morning milk round in Scotland b) a paper round before (and on some day) after school c) a butchers message boy on Saturday mornings. Not forgetting the 'NE Scotland spud picking weeks' - departure from school curriculam for a couple of weeks each year (for which each of us volunteers were paid).
HMS Ganges ... a dawdle!!!
