General Chat

Bushy Mick,

Are you going to....?............?I can hardly wait.
Did you go to the football match. No, I saw it on telly.
Did you hear that? What is it? Its getting louder.

"Tha meks a good door"

"If brains were dynamite,tha wun't 'ave enough to blow thee 'at off"

"Put t wood int oil"

Hi Lorraine, I am going back further than you, I worked in Portsmouth, near the dockyard from 156 to 1961. Lived in Fareham from 1940 to 1968!!!

Hi Anne

you wouldnt recognise it now the dockyard is more a museum than a working dockyard now, my dad worked when he 1st left school in 1954 and there where thousands of workers now only a couple of hundered.

Fareham accents are totally different to portsmouth, they have more of a hampshire accent, where as portsmouth flatten their vowels. Where you born in Fareham?

Where does "eaves dropping" come from?

Apparently the saying comes from being able to stand under the protruding thatched eaves and listen to the conversation going on in the house.People would shelter under the eaves if it was raining.I just looked it up on google .

There seem to be a lot of us who live in or near Northampton.M duck is still very common here in `Kettering.I am not from these parts ,only been here since 1985.I am used to hearing "All right Bird" Plymouth!