Twirlies

Didn't know jobbies was Scottish - we say it in Norfolk with the same meaning.

Of course you will Mice. Just watch for the reaction if you say it to a Scot and have a giggle

Oh my goodness! I'll never be able to use that word again.

Mobiles???? Of course I meant, jobbies.

It's a Scottish word for poo Mice. . It reminded me of the time an English friend of ours saying he had a couple of mobiles to do in the garden. We couldn't help but laugh, as he did when we translated.

I thought maybe some of you would have recognised it if you had listened to Billy Connelly.

Micelf my cat does her 'jobbies' in the garden

Anyone trying to use a bus pass before 9.30 are told they are "toearly".

By non-animate I mean not alive. Some of them are still very animated.

But. face to face with someone, could you describe any of these non-animate twirlies to them without using your hands to demonstrate?

In sunny Natal in South Africa, the rotary dryers are called a "Windydry" and rightly so. In the summer, clothes dry in an hour, wind or no wind

You'll have to explain that foreign language Agus.

Around here it is someone trying to use a bus pass before 9am. As in too early.

mcem we call a rotary clothes line a 'whorly' rather than a 'twirly'
and a 'doufus' is what DD Dutch MiL calls a thingamajig or whatjamacallit

Round here they are the bus people as described by aka

Oh, oh, oh, it's a baton thrown by an Army band leader!

12Michael that sounds like a fun journey.

No, it has to be a gnarled, polished walking stick; a twirley.

Wasn't it a chocolate coated toffee bar?

Look away Scottish Grannies, Mice is talking 'jobbies'

Couldn't resist!

After deep and profound thought I have decided that its only definition is one of those metal jobbies that you use to mix drinks.

I'm with Aka on this one. Is definitely someone who tries to use their bus pass before the allotted time. "Sorry love, you're twirley

Kitty, I have been awake since 5.00am. That's my excuse

I call those drying doofers a 'whirlymagig*

A rotary clothes drier! It is in our family anyway.

I don't like the sound of someone who does for someone else!

So maybe "doofus" will do to describe someone who is done for!

<laughs at own joke>

A female in her twilight years and no longer a girl

The state of some of the brains on GN ;