Is this a generation thing ?

I am fro mSheffield and have never heard the expression "Once in a Sheffield flood", so don't know where it comes from unless it has its origins in the great Sheffield flood of 1864. I'd like to know. GS had a friend round playing after school today and his mum came to call for him as they had to go out. "Put your shoepods on, C" she said to him. My mother used to say that to me when I was young and I was quite taken aback as I hadn't heard it for years.

Had a friend as a teenager originating from Scotland then Manchester used to say "like a piffy on a rock cake" thought it meant something quite small...my mums version was "like a pimple on a ducks arse"

What does it mean?

I say "piffy on a rock bun" and I was brought up in North Cheshire.

I am from Yorkshire and have never heard of the wood in the hole or piffy on a rock bun (eh?) although all adults used to say 'eee' a lot.

I'd never heard the saying 'piffy on a rock bun' or 'put t'wood in t'hole' until I met my MIL, although she wasn't from Yorkshire.

Definitely a generational thing, I remember it as well as green as cabbage looking.
One saying I remember but not many others do is 'once in a Sheffield flood' meaning not often. I don't know the origin of this apart from the obvious.

'Put the wood in the hole' was one of my Dad's favourites along with 'no sae green as ye're cabbage looking'. And he was born and bred in Fife.

My parents used to say it, along with, "put your leg in bed" for linking arms!

I would say generational ....I do say it ..." it's a bit parky in 'ere,put the wood in the 'ole"

Yep, born in a barn here. Never heard of wood in the hole.
Must admit, I initially assumed it was related to sex.

Great minds sunseeker ?

Generational I would think, along with born in a barn.

When I was growing up the phrase was usually accompanied by the question "were you born in a barn"

I frequently use this expression to DH with reference to cupboard doors which he usually leaves open. Have to say it has no effect whatsoever. We're from adjacent towns in Staffordshire so he does know what it means.

Strangely it's not something I've said for years. I don't know what made me come out with it
My children knew what it meant.

I'm a southerner and know it though seldom use it.

I'm a southerner and I know the expression, and have even been known to use it myself!

My mum and nan used to say this - LOUDLY!

I'm from Lancashire and I know it, my great aunt used to say, "put wood in th'ole". (Close the door).
I don't use it, haven't heard it for years.
Peter Kay uses these old phrases like, "put big light on" in his comedy routine.

It means 'close the door'.

I do not have the foggiest what it means either- I would also think about wood fires.