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- 27 Jul 2020, 07:44
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16936
- Views: 2157756
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
The reaction, on the BBC, about removing Spain from the 'air corridor'. This isn't a political issue, the government were criticised for reacting too slowly with a lockdown, they're now criticised for acting too quickhat's how I see it) in introducing 14 days quarantine for holiday makers returning...
- 30 Jan 2020, 09:15
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12933
- Views: 1487698
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Apropos announcements about reopening railway lines. Skipton-Colne got a mention as well. For the majority of the line reconstruction to Skipton it just takes money. but the most contentious point will be crossing Vivery Way in Colne. The line itself could be replaced at minimum cost but this would...
- 30 Jan 2020, 08:58
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 695246
- 22 Oct 2019, 07:47
- Forum: Looking For Someone
- Topic: Trying to find my grandfather John Willie Crabtree
- Replies: 87
- Views: 43494
Re: Trying to find my grandfather John Willie Crabtree
Hello Stanley and thanks for the photo to Gavino.
It looks like Penflewitch's grandad or possibly great grandad. She forwarded the photo to me.
As you can see I'm still around but a bit slow on the uptake.
A big Hi to everyone on the site.
cloggy.
It looks like Penflewitch's grandad or possibly great grandad. She forwarded the photo to me.
As you can see I'm still around but a bit slow on the uptake.
A big Hi to everyone on the site.
cloggy.
- 28 Jan 2019, 09:25
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6887
Re: HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
Particularly important to me, still have family survivors of kindertransport. And family members whose parents didn't manage to escape the Soviet persecution that never seems to be mentioned.
Thank you for your posts on this subject.
cloggy
Thank you for your posts on this subject.
cloggy
- 13 Jul 2018, 08:04
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7781
- Views: 977161
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
A blood test t GP saihat can predict more accurately how long you may have live. Link. . I'm not too sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing unless you can do do something to cling onto your perch a bit longer. Had to laugh when I saw this. Just had blood and urine tests. GP said when read...
- 15 Feb 2018, 10:02
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Happy Birthday Stanley
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8889
Re: Happy Birthday Stanley
Belated Birthday Greetings Stanley. My only excuse is I didn't know you were so young.
- 13 Feb 2018, 08:46
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: GROWING OLD!
- Replies: 119
- Views: 48075
- 13 Feb 2018, 08:42
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 695246
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Hello again Cloggy, nice to hear from you again. "Yan, Tan, Tether, Mether, Pimp, Sether, Heather, Hother, Dother, Dick". My dad used it on occasion, no real association with farming but his dad my grandfather had. He was a true dalesman, (Dent). Farmer, horseman, carter, we even have him...
- 13 Feb 2018, 08:36
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 695246
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
I hope you both saw that northern sheep farmer on the TV who demonstrated the sheep counting. When he got to 20 he took a pebble out of his pocket and said "After 20 we use technology". :smile: Ni, I haven't seen that. Many Nordic and Germanic languages don't have words for numbers over 2...
- 12 Feb 2018, 10:50
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: GROWING OLD!
- Replies: 119
- Views: 48075
Re: GROWING OLD!
[quote=Wendyf post_id=113713 time=1518341816 user_id=73] Hello Cloggy, good to hear from you again. Did you manage a trip to this area last year? Hello Wendy, I managed a very frustrating trip mid July 2017. It was supposed to be a respite trip, but ended up visiting Lancaster and Blackpool heart un...
- 11 Feb 2018, 09:32
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: GROWING OLD!
- Replies: 119
- Views: 48075
Re: GROWING OLD!
'Age cannot wither, nor custom stale, her infinite variety' as I look at my 86 year old Alzheimer stricken dear wife, sorting out her bag with its precious bits and bobs, and giving the bedroom floor its almost permanent sweep up. I knew old age had struck me recently when a brother asked 'have you ...
- 11 Feb 2018, 09:15
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 695246
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Greetings to all. Just logged in for the first time in a while, and found this thread very interesting. Languages and dialects are fascinating, and I find that in my dotage I am gradually going back to using a lot of dialect words from my youth, when I worked with my dad at Higher Reedly. This broug...
- 12 Jul 2017, 06:33
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 21267
- Views: 2092044
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
P.S. also meet ups with cousins discovered thanks to this site.
- 12 Jul 2017, 06:30
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 21267
- Views: 2092044
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Hello everybody, today I shall be mainly busy as usual with Mrs.C; but also starting to think about packing for my trip to UK next week. Since we've been experiencing 30+ temperatures for the last several weeks, and the countryside all around us is being rapidly destroyed by bush fires, looking forw...
- 17 May 2017, 07:31
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 21267
- Views: 2092044
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Are you visiting Earby & Kelbrook Cloggy? I just remembered helping a lady with her family history recently who mentioned, just before she left the library, that she was married to a Garlick and had an old presentation watch in her possession given to someone for 50 years service in the calico ...
- 12 May 2017, 07:49
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 21267
- Views: 2092044
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Lovely to hear from you Cloggy! I hope all goes well for your trip..... Do you re ly want to visit a country in chaos? Will they let you back into Italy? Stanley, I will just be travelling from one basket case country to another it seems. Whether or not Italy let me back in will probably depend on ...
- 03 May 2017, 08:30
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 21267
- Views: 2092044
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Interesting medical experiences with the EU card,all sounds familiar. Since Italy is a nation of hypochondriacs, here in our Southern Italian village, we have a choice of 4 GPs in one joint surgery. You just walk in and join the queue for the GP you wish to see. If you are on a regular prescription ...
- 14 Feb 2017, 09:08
- Forum: Looking For Someone
- Topic: Harrisons, Spencers, and Garlicks of Earby.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 30065
Re: Harrisons, Spencers, and Garlicks of Earby.
Never thought I'd be so grateful to technology and t'internet, and boards such as this. Here I am in my dotage and splendid Italian isolaton, surrounded by friends and cousins I've never met in the flesh. Also starting to receive snail mail letters from both Dinsdales/Spencers/Crabtrees. Viva oneguy...
- 17 Jan 2017, 08:38
- Forum: Looking For Someone
- Topic: Harrisons, Spencers, and Garlicks of Earby.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 30065
Re: Harrisons, Spencers, and Garlicks of Earby.
Thank you eVerYBody on oneguyfrombarlick. I keep trying to send this thank you, but my computer seems a bit temeprmental. Hope this one makes it. Wonderful site, wonderful peopple, especially Stanley and Wendy.Must make the effort to visit more often.
kind regards to all, cloggy
kind regards to all, cloggy
- 11 Sep 2016, 07:26
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 695246
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Technology has become the death of English
- 03 Sep 2016, 08:01
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: The Referendum.
- Replies: 330
- Views: 85856
Re: The Referendum.
I wonder if Bruff is in Italy yet for his holiday. I'm looking forward to hearing about his experiences there. I read that Brits visiting museums and other tourist sites in Italy are already being regarded as non-EU and charged a much higher rate for entry. When they complain and point out that we'...
- 27 Aug 2016, 08:04
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: The Referendum.
- Replies: 330
- Views: 85856
Re: The Referendum.
One of the big problems of course is the UK public's interpretation of 'freedom of movement'. There is indeed freedom of movement within the EU; but that is not 'freedom to stay'. Every where else there are mechanisms in place to ensure that after the 90 day 'freedom' period has expired; you can sho...
- 03 Aug 2016, 07:25
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 695246
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Isn't it just a question of savoury or sweet?Tizer wrote:I saw a discussion in the newspaper recently about the difference between a pie and a tart. There was debate about which should have a top and/or a bottom, and whether there were regional differences.
best rgds,
cloggy
- 28 Jul 2016, 16:43
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 695246
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Thanks Wendy, fascinating article. And thanks other posters, glad I wasn't imagining things.
best regards,
cloggy
best regards,
cloggy