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Re: Greengages Pat
There are Greengages and Greengages Pat. The tree i planted twenty years ago is probably quite rare now it is one of the old type of plum, I wish you could taste it ,it blows ones head off. Sadly if we have heavy rain as they ripen, they split. Alright for jam so says Archie. I think the RC.s would shudder and the smaller religious communities.
But then if folk are having children named and not baptized in the country museum .
Once the women used to be as they called it Churched after bearing a child.
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C_C_T
on September 4, 2017 at 10:58 AM
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Thank you Annicita.
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C_C_T
on September 4, 2017 at 10:50 AM
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RPresta
Thank you RP. Of course language has more or less flattened out, but occasionaly
one can hear vague examples of real country examples of speech. The gipsies do not miss a trick, once years ago, many years now there was a large encampment about five minutes walk away from our bungalow. We did not mind them,it was the lino folk who came occasionally that all were wary of.
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C_C_T
on September 4, 2017 at 10:49 AM
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Re: RPresta
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C_C_T
on September 4, 2017 at 10:41 AM
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When the Cockney folk came down as London was bombed, they spoke almost in there own dialect. Of course years since things have changed. Even I do not sing about my old cock sparrow.
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C_C_T
on September 4, 2017 at 10:40 AM
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Re: FS
Times change FS. No one will put a slate on the church spire to receive a blessing.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 4, 2017 at 10:35 AM
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It looks like church is acting like a business, trying to come up with things to draw the crowds...It is interesting reading about different dialects.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 4, 2017 at 9:05 AM
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I love being able to read you and not need a translation. So many cockney people came to Australia over probably just over the first 200 years of European history, it is pretty deeply imbedded in our culture too.
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Kabu
on September 3, 2017 at 4:48 PM
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Thanks for the translations, 'cause I did need them. LOL. And it appears you are right about Oxford being good for the homeless. Here, well, they are here also. I loved your poem,especially the part about sweeping the floors with her eyes! Really good one.
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Sea_Gypsy
on September 3, 2017 at 2:24 PM
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Annicita
on September 3, 2017 at 2:10 PM
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No wonder I was confused a time or two.
I thought green gages were a kind of plums. Or was it pears? I remember mama mentioning them. It seems such a turnabout for a church to have a bar, but it might just up the numbers attending services if they'd do so around here. But I think the hardshell Baptists would have a problem with that, even if Jesus did make water into wine for the wedding feast.
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Pat_B
on September 3, 2017 at 11:08 AM
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