General Chat

over Will's mother's place


Edited in February 2013
I have been deleting threads that I had started, because I was told by GR that if I had fewer threads in "my threads" I should not experience so many errors when clicking on "my threads"; but when I come across such as this one, then I don't want to delete it
:-)

Ever heard that expression?

Very appropriate right now :-)

Good Morning Joy - here in Derbyshire we say 'o'er Bills mothers'. Saying much the same only different dialect, but deffinitely the same meaning.
By the way, not to bad here at the moment, but they have given out showers.
Julia in Derbyshire

Good morning, Julia. It was my OH that said it, and he is from Devon; so it is across the country then :-)

I'd better go to the shops before the rain starts.

Almost the same as you Julia.......my MIL used to say 'Its black o'er Bill's mother's'. That's here in Leicestershire.

Same as Julia - I come from Derbyshire originally - now live in Devon so now know the expression from here thanks to Joy's OH.
Remember when I once said this, my son, who was about 4 years old at the time said, "Does she live over there, Mummy?"

Steph

I haven't heard that in years! lol

Yes and also used in another context, as when someone takes a long time to explain something simple...going round Wills Mother's.

There you go :-)
And I'd not heard the saying before.

Hello Joy... the saying my parents always used so i also use it is "It's as black as your hat" i have also heard used Will's mother's place.

Oh and yes it is black as your hat here in east Kent. lol.

I haven't heard that saying before........

If my Mother was referring to the dark clouds she would say...

"Its as black as yer grandmothers cape" Lol

Sorry girls but.........it's been blue as a sailor's shirt here on the NE coast ...absolutely beautiful day! :O) x

my gran always said 'There's enough blue sky up there to make a sailor a pair of trousers'

going to make the trousers next TW ;O) x

"As black as your hat" - literally here
Liz in Sussex

yep, that was one of mum's expressions "down Will's muvver's" :-)) also, "black as yer hat", "enough blue to make a sailor's hankie" !!
xxxx

But....................who is Will?

I knew the
'There's enough blue sky up there to make a sailor a pair of trousers'
but not the others.

TW........Will was the first to die at the battle of the little Big Horn

There was a thread about this a couple of months ago. I looked into where it came from and it is apparently originated in the midlands. Bill refers to William Shakespeare and when it was cloudy and black over Stratford upon Avon, people in Birmigham used to say that it was "Black over Bill's mothers"

I have been deleting threads that I had started, because I was told by GR that if I had fewer threads in "my threads" I should not experience so many errors when clicking on "my threads"; but when I come across such as this one, then I don't want to delete it :-)