'...the way us talk in Coxall'
Bean - drunk. As 'is got is beans in'
Naming of fingers; Right hand Little Wink Penny Wink Longbone Lickpot Harry Gobbleall Left hand Tom Thumbkin Will Wilkin Long Gracious Best Bodkin Litlle Diddymite Roddy Miller
From my Grandfather Jack Smith of Great Tey who had it from his Grandfather, my Gt Gt Grandfather Walter Smith (now we are back to the early 1800's). There are a few other "ditties" that the old chap (Jack) used to have. If we were spreading some manure over a field. That was done by hand with a dung fork This was in the 60's and he was deadly accurate with a lump of muck He could drop a forkful on to your back from 20 yards "Sling shit high Sling shit low, The harder you sling it the further it go ! Roddy Miller
"He's no diddle-o" which means 'He's no fool' My Grandfather used to say it - Tracey Davies
I am pretty sure I have seen this somewhere but I was taught it in an Essex dialect Oi goes t'church on Sunday, to hear old parson shout, Oi slips me farthing in the bag, an Oi sneaks a tanner out The Sounds of Increase - The lowering of a cow in milk, The din of a smithy, The swish of a plough, The bawl of a lusty babe. Roddy Miller
Willingale Doe and Willingale Spain, Bulvan and Bobbingworth and Colne Engaine, Wenden Lofts Beaumont cum Moze Bung Row,Gestingthorpe Ugley and Fingeringhoe, Helions Bumpstead and Mountnessing, Bottle End Tollshunt D'arcy and Messing, Islands of Canvey Foulness and Potten Standon Massey and Belcham Otten Ingrave and Inworth and Keddington Shallow Bowels Ulting and Kelvedon Margaret Roothing and Manningtree The bolder you sound them the better they be Mind you the old pronunciation of Gestingthorpe was "Gustup". Roddy Miller
Naming of fingers; Right hand Little Wink Penny Wink Longbone Lickpot Harry Gobbleall Left hand Tom Thumbkin Will Wilkin Long Gracious Best Bodkin Litlle Diddymite Roddy Miller
From my Grandfather Jack Smith of Great Tey who had it from his Grandfather, my Gt Gt Grandfather Walter Smith (now we are back to the early 1800's). There are a few other "ditties" that the old chap (Jack) used to have. If we were spreading some manure over a field. That was done by hand with a dung fork This was in the 60's and he was deadly accurate with a lump of muck He could drop a forkful on to your back from 20 yards "Sling shit high Sling shit low, The harder you sling it the further it go ! Roddy Miller
"He's no diddle-o" which means 'He's no fool' My Grandfather used to say it - Tracey Davies
I am pretty sure I have seen this somewhere but I was taught it in an Essex dialect Oi goes t'church on Sunday, to hear old parson shout, Oi slips me farthing in the bag, an Oi sneaks a tanner out The Sounds of Increase - The lowering of a cow in milk, The din of a smithy, The swish of a plough, The bawl of a lusty babe. Roddy Miller
Willingale Doe and Willingale Spain, Bulvan and Bobbingworth and Colne Engaine, Wenden Lofts Beaumont cum Moze Bung Row,Gestingthorpe Ugley and Fingeringhoe, Helions Bumpstead and Mountnessing, Bottle End Tollshunt D'arcy and Messing, Islands of Canvey Foulness and Potten Standon Massey and Belcham Otten Ingrave and Inworth and Keddington Shallow Bowels Ulting and Kelvedon Margaret Roothing and Manningtree The bolder you sound them the better they be Mind you the old pronunciation of Gestingthorpe was "Gustup". Roddy Miller