MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Sorry no. Are you sitting comfortably? The local dialect term for a sow that is served by a boar is that it is 'brimmed'.

[chinatyke]

Never heard that term before. Now I can stop searching the Internet for "mating pigs" - I bet I get some lovely follow-up from the search engines!

[Stanley]

Have a look at THIS Google result. It was there all the time.....

[Tripps]

I couldn't bring it to mind, but I had a feeling I'd know it, when revealed.

I was right.

PS. If you believe in reincarnation - try to aim at returning as a thoroughbred stallion. I had the guided tour at The National Stud in Newmarket once. Hard to fault it really - best of everything and the pick of the country's fillies three times a day in the season.

[Stanley]

Dream on David, neither of us would qualify on breeding or stamina!

[chinatyke]

Have a look at THIS Google result. It was there all the time.....

Unfortunately Google is crippled here, I have to rely on Bing and that didn't come up with the right answer.
That was a good mystery subject.

[Stanley]

Thanks Graham. Now someone has to think of another!

[Tripps]

Try this - I don't expect anyone to get it, but I just like it - and on here it's on for posterity.

It's part of a work that's about 10ft square.

PS I now find it has been 'posteritised' already so I won't drag it out.

If Bob Bliss can memorialise, I can posteritise.

mosaic.JPG

[Stanley]

It has lost me already!

[Tizer]

Is it made from pieces of tile? It's a lovely bit of work.

[Tripps]

It's a lovely bit of work.

Agreed. I think they are wonderful, and they brighten up every visit to Addenbrookes Hospital.

Addenbrookes Mosaics

[Cathy]

They are beautiful Tripps

[Stanley]

I like the sources of the fragments, 'friendly builders' are one of them.



Wendy posted this pic of sheep sheltering under a wall. Occasionally you'll see an isolated piece of wall in the middle of an exposed field to give some shelter from the weather. What's the dialect name for them around here?

[Stanley]

If there is no response today I'll knock it on the head.

[chinatyke]

Was it called a fold?

[Tizer]

Bothy? Booth?

[Stanley]

Sorry no, what we are looking for is a dialect word for shelter. So instead of a 'shelter wall' it's a '* wall'.

[Stanley]

I shall come clean before noon.

[chinatyke]

Laithe? There are farms named things like Bent Laithe but I've no idea what the word laithe means.

[Gloria]

Stells?

[Wendyf]

Stells?

That's all I've been able to come up with Gloria.

[Gloria]

Stells?

That's all I've been able to come up with Gloria.

Never heard the word before.

[Wendyf]

Stells?

That's all I've been able to come up with Gloria.

Never heard the word before.

Nor me! I don't think it's the word Stanley is looking for though.

[Stanley]

I've never heard that one Gloria. Wendy is going to kick herself because I am sure she knows this. The word is beald. The wall in the centre of the field is a beald wall.
I've had a furtle, they spell it differently but here's the Collins definition....
" (bield ) Scottish and Northern England dialect
noun, 1. a shelter; house
verb 2. to shelter or take shelter
Word origin
Old English bieldo, byldo boldness (hence: refuge); related to Gothic balthei, Old English beald bold"
I don't understand how their etymology works but bield or beald, take your pick is the word.

[Wendyf]

Never heard it before Stanley!