bacigalupo,?
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All changed to houses now, and no I can't remember the name I do remember her making extra large pink meringue's with loads of fresh cream in them. Do you remember the girl who became a top class archer from around there.I remember Jack Thornton. I used to live just around the corner on Queen St.. What was the name of that bakery kitty corner to Jack's shop? They made damn fine pies
No ... doesn't ring a bell. I moved out of Queen St. after my parents divorced and stayed with my grandad on Rishton Rd. I think I was five at the time.
Well you've introduced me to a new expression there Eric. Never heard "kitty corner" before, had to look it up.I remember Jack Thornton. I used to live just around the corner on Queen St.. What was the name of that bakery kitty corner to Jack's shop? They made damn fine pies
PS I see my very erudite and obvious post above has been deleted. No surprises there then. But thanks for the like anyway - I still got that!
You should have gone with "Richard cranium"
Sometimes North American expressions slip into my posts ... Just habit ... "Kitty corner" is quite a normal way of giving directions over here ... a lot simpler than saying "on the other side of the street at a diagonal across the intersection" (pronounced "innersection", of course
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Funny that we don't use it in UK as it's supposed to derive from Middle English...You should have gone with "Richard cranium"
Sometimes North American expressions slip into my posts ... Just habit ... "Kitty corner" is quite a normal way of giving directions over here ... a lot simpler than saying "on the other side of the street at a diagonal across the intersection" (pronounced "innersection", of course
Catty-corner, kitty-corner - Grammarist
As for Mr RC alias Mr DH - well it was after midnight and I'm a bit high on steroids...
Barbara Feilding I think..she ran with Accy Roadrunners in her later years.
When I lived in Hassy Barbara's Aunt lived next door, when I moved back to Ossy she used to come in the Stop and Rest, she once brought her bow and a target into the lounge to let us have a go. In fact there were quite a few Foxhill Bowmen drank in the Stop in those days
That's the girl.
Just been corrected by the current Mrs P.
Val Robinson OBE ran with Accy RR (mentioned on these forums)
Barbara Feilding is a golfist.
That goes wi the territory "D" or it does in our house.Just been corrected by the current Mrs P.
Was a barbers of that name, can't remember where in accy, as i never used it.
Bottom of Warner Street, Cashy.
He cut my hair on the morning of my wedding, 4th June 1966
Trouble was, I hadn't told anyone that I was going for a haircut, & the in-laws thought I'd absconded!!
(No mobiles back then!)
Ah musta seen it when i used to go to Bodens fer me dinner.
That takes the forum round and back again C...didn't one of the Bodens (Bowdens?) go out with Carol Duckett? Pete or Phil? Mog do you know?
Can't remember D, if so money would be on pete,? someone told me awhile ago he lives in far east now,Thailand in mountains i think they said.