I was too busy bathing my feet after a visit to Eastwood to attend to the
debates, Judy. In case that first sentence causes puzzlement, not that would
ever be my intent, no, I haven't joined a strange cult which indulges in
rites of pedicure after entering the shrine (of D.H.Lawrence) but rather I
was suffering from the after effects of following around the winding pilgrim
trails of the nearby and vast Ikea store where someone was in search of
curtain rings.
I was, though, able to get a copy of a volume containing Lawrence's short
story 'Delilah and Mr Bircumshaw', which I haven't set eyes on in almost 40
years, from Eastwood's Public Library. I like visiting those old colliery
villages round there : people's eyes light up when they hear my surname, as
with the librarian today: 'I used to know an old gentleman with that name'.
People in much of the North Midlands used to say variants of 'nowt' too,
'naht' and the like. Although a relic, it still happens sometimes in speech,
language being a haunted house par excellence.
On 29 April 2010 23:30, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And petcmembers demand formal attire, Dave.
>
> Your "Nowt wrong with me spelling . . . " immediately reminded me of the
> sound of folk in the Yorkshire Dales that I've been hearing on episodes of
> BBC's *All Creatures Great and Small*, from the books by Alf Wight, a
> Glaswegian (pen-named James Herriot). Soon I'll be fortunate to be able
> to
> train up there and hear for myself! Would like esp to visit York, and the
> Minster.
>
> Re yuppification: As long as B'Ham still has narrowboat-navigable
> canals.....
>
> Oh, I now recall our trying to locate the architecturally impressive modern
> residential buildings that I'd seen on the cab ride to the B'Ham airport.
>
> Do you eschew each of tonight's debaters?
>
> I rather thought Gordon Brown won on all debate-worthy qualities. Nick
> Clegg may need to review the very old Nixon-Kennedy debate in which Nixon's
> effusive sweating glowed him right out of voters' thoughts. And Cameron,
> for all of his frightening conservatism, does seem able to remember and
> recite figures, despite his frustrating habit of not answering direct
> questions.
>
> Joodles
>
> On 29 April 2010 16:17, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Nowt wrong with me spelling, Joodles, me tie-pin however ...
> >
> > On 29 April 2010 13:08, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > At last, a serious researcher (if not speller).
> > >
> > > j oodles
> > >
> > > On 29 April 2010 01:17, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Jump-cut (jump cut):
> > > >
> > > > 1. An abbreviation of 'To Jump in the Cut': a method of suicide
> > practised
> > > > by
> > > > the Birmingham poor before the yuppification of the canalside areas.
> > > >
> > > > 2. Feelings of despair likely to result in such behavoiur
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > David Bircumshaw
> > > > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> > > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > > > The Animal Subsides
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > > > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > > > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
>
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David Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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