Saturday 31 December 2011


New Year’s Reality Check
Another year, another chanceTo start our lives anew;
This time we’ll leap old barriersTo have a real breakthrough.
We’ll take one little stepAnd then we’ll take one more,Our unlimited potentialWe’ll totally explore.
We’ll show off all our talentsEveryone will be inspired;
(Whew! While I’m writing this,I’m getting very tired.)
We’ll give up all bad habits;We’ll read and learn a lot,All our goals will be accomplished,Sigh...or maybe not.
Oh well, Happy New Year anyway!
By Joanna Fuchs

Wednesday 28 December 2011

Birthday girl (well a bit late)

A year ago our sweet little Evie - Rose was born (She was 2 minutes old in the above picture)She now can walk and say cat,doggy,What is it?,daddy and can sign pig,rabbit and is learning many more to enable her to talk to her big brother.
Happy birthday Evie-rose Yvonne hope.x

Sad its all over

The candles were lit.
The table was set.
The madness began.









I hope your day was just how you wanted it to be.

Saturday 24 December 2011

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas

Wednesday 16 November 2011

M - Z

I remember my dad being sluffed.No matter how we try eldest daughter always insists she hasnt done owt.And i usually make a mullock of things!
Maister
Master



Middlin
Moderate



Miln
A mill



Milner
Originally the one who put the cloth in the milling stocks



Mongi
Idle


Mule
Spinning machine


Mullock
Mess or muddle



Muff
Make a small noise


Mungo
Old rags and woollen material, shredded to be rewoven


Nogs
L-shaped pieces of iron placed on the beam to hold the warp



Noils
Short fibres of wool removed by the combing machine


Noit
Business



Nope
To hit, especially on the head


Okker
To hesitate



Olis
Always


Oss
To stir; move, to begin



Owt
Anything


Paand
Pound (£1)



Perch
To examine cloth by putting it over a rod, pole or perch, in order to remove burls or motes



Pick
To throw the shuttle



Piggin
A lading can or small vessel



Poise
Kick



Porty woof
Forty threads



Pund
Pound (lb) weight


Rordin
A Riding; a third part



Rovin
In wool spinning where the filaments are drawn out to a greater length


Rush
A festival


Saig
Saw



Saigins
Sawdust



Sam
To pick up or gather



Scribble
To give the first rough carding to wool or cotton



Shauve
Slice (of bread)


Shiftless
Helpless



Shivvins
Small bits of wood in the wool or bits off the yarn (shavings)



Shoddy
Waste material thrown off by machines, used for low priced cloth



Skep or skip
A willow basket


Skitter
To hurry one's work


Sliver
A long carding of wool


Slub
To draw out cardings into greater length


Sluffed
Disappointed, distressed


Stamperds
The four posts supporting a loom


Stocks
Part of milling machinery


Strinkle
To scatter or sprinkle


Sumpoil
Place to which surplus liquids flow


Taew
To strive


Tail goit
Channel from the mill



Tenter
Frame for stretching cloth to dry on tenter hooks



Thoil
To bear; endure; not begrudge; spare



Throng
Busy



Thrum
The ends 0f the warp cut off from a piece of cloth



Thump
Local name for a feast or fair



Tig
To touch (as in childrens games)



Toit
To keep in toil; to keep in good order



Tuner
One who tunes or sets the looms for weaving


Ummer
Local word for Hell


Wanty
A girth for a pack horse



Wappy
Quick; a short cut



Wassock
Daft



Wind
To wind bobbins



Wim wam
An impulse or fancy


Winteredge
Winter hedge; clothes horse



Wit
Commonsense



Worsit
Worsted



Wom
Home


Yark
To jerk; pull or snatch


Huddersfield dialect part 2 F - L

I'm definitely a fettler and we kept a lot of junk in our koil oil!!As a teenager i laked about alot and now i find I'm fast most of the time.



Fadge
Bundles of cloth or wool in a pack sheet skewered with wooden pack pricks
Fast
Puzzled
Fearnaught
A wool mixing machine

Fent
A fag end of cloth, three-quarters of a yard beyond the length of a piece. Weavers used to claim this to clothe their children
Fettle
To clean or set something in order
Fettler
A machine cleaner

Flit
Move

Fold
A collection of houses standing in a yard
Frame
To set about a task effectively
Fruzzins
Hairs coming off the cloth when finished or from yarn when wound. Loose fluff, often under a bed
Gainest
Nearest

Gers
Grass

Gig
A kind of knife used to remove knots from the cloth

Goit
Channel cut to carry water to the mill
Ginnil
A narrow passage between buildings

Hank
Thread wound on a large cylinder. A hank of wool or cotton is 840 yards; 560 yards in worsted

Jacks
Part of a loom
Jerry
A finishing machine that removed rough surface of cloth
Jip
Pain, punishment

Joss
The master

Knock on
To get on with a job
Koil Oil
Coal place
Kop
Catch

Lake
To be idle
Leck or weet
To wet as in wetting the cloth with stale urine to bring out the grease
Leet
To meet with
Lig
Lie down

Lithairse
Dye house; lister=dyer
Lumb
Chimney

Lurry
A wagon

M - Z Tomorrow

A -D Old Huddersfield dialect







My youngest daughter has been doing some homework about Huddersfield (The town where we live ) she has to find out as much as possible about its past.She came across some old Huddersfield dialect,i thought i would share it with you.





Most will come from the old textile mills that Huddersfield was famous for but i still remember my dad using a lot of it and still use some myself today.





My eldest daughter seems to have the broadest Yorkshire accent and no matter how many times you tell her something is broken she will always say its brokken.We still have a bit of a do now and again all donned up as a child i was told not to chunter and even now we still walk the dog along the cut.










Addle
To earn


Agate
At work, occupied with


Akkle
To dress or tidy up


Avverbreead
Haverbread made from oatmeal when wheat flour was expensive


Baht


Without


Balk
A large beam or beam of scales for weighing


Bat
Stroke; 'He's not struck a bat' - he's not done a stroke


Betty
A guard placed in front of the fire to keep the ashes in


Billy
A machine for slubbing cardings


Botch
To do a job carelessly


Brass
Money


Brokken
Broken


Brussen

Burst (applied to sacks); lucky (applied to a person)


Buffet
A small stool


Bunt
A bundle (of cloth)


Burl
Pick small pieces of hair etc. from cloth


Buzzer
Mill whistle or siren
Caird
A card or comb for dressing wool


Cal
Gossip


Capt
Suprised


Causey
A pavement, footpath


Chunter
Grumble


Clammed
Cold; hungry, kept short of food


Clicks
Hooks for moving packs of wool


Cop
Yarn spun on a spindle


Cropper
Cloth dresser


Crozzil
Hard cinder found in furnaces


Cut
Canal


Din
Noise


Do
A commotion, a lively time


Dollypawed
Left-handed


Donned up
Dressed in ones best clothes


Druft
A drying wind


F - L to follow

Thursday 8 September 2011

Goodnight,God Bless

These last two week have been very hard,Ive lost my best friend,Grandma to my children and



a huge part of my life.

Saturday 23 July 2011

A place for Romeo

Remember my garden pond?My lovely relaxing,sit next to with a glass of wine and listen to the relaxing sound of running water pond The one the cats loved and the fish were very happy in.The one with the perfectly round conifer tree next to it.



Well it is no more,and that stump you can just see was the perfectly round tree!




We got back off holiday yesterday (Friday) and it looked like this.






This morning it looked like this.








You see no mater how much i loved my pond.I love this little chap much much more.As you can see he likes looking at the fish (which have all gone to live at my sons).But we needed somewhere for Romeo.Who? i hear you say.Romeo is the biggest frog you have ever seen.He returns each year along with a lot of other frogs and they will be looking for somewhere to spawn.

There are still some tadpoles and baby frogs left from the big pond so they have now gone into the little one.Still as dangerous but a lot easier to net for safety.











As the day went on i began to feel a bit better about things.To the left of the pond will be grassed.














And to the right filled with flowers and shrubs.

Then on to tackling the 8 foot drop over the wall.The pond was the only thing stopping Logan going near it.I guess a fence is in the pipeline.


















Thursday 2 June 2011

lost



No not the programme but my camera lead.The one you need to put pictures onto the laptop.

So i can't show you my finished hall,stairs and landing.I can't show you the funny pictures of the cats loving springwatch (they wait for it coming on every night).I can't show you the lovely new plants and shrubs i was given for the garden and you can't tell me what they are! and i can't show you the newt that surprised us all by sunbathing by the pond.

Back to the searching.


Tuesday 24 May 2011

Busy,Busy,Busy



We have had birthdays and birth days here.Bethany turned 18 and 2 days later became an aunt again for the third time. My son and daughter in law had their beautiful baby Jessica Elizabeth on Friday the 13th,weighing in at 6lb 4 oz.






The gardens going a bit wild although i managed to do something about the front at weekend,the back is looking jungle like.





























My eldest daughters baby's have all found new homes.Cheesecake was the last to go.














And my youngest has developed a design streak.




























And me,well i have all this to paint






















and this





















and all the way up there



















































and along there



























































And finally up there as well









The woodwork has finally been finished thank goodness and the carpet ordered so all we need to do now is go from green to coffee.


I'm sorry about the pictures i don't know why they get further and further apart as you scroll down.Ive tried everything.Any ideas?






















































Thursday 5 May 2011

sun,sand,sea and smiles

The journey there





Taking photos of everything!







some turned out quite good.









and some well mmm.




All the fun of the fair



















Makes my stomach turn.





But some things i can still cope with.




















And a long walk along the beech for fish and chips
















































Making new friends











































































































and having fun together



































































Then home to bed. bye bye wales