Good Morning Monday

Message to all our lovely Scottish members. What do you mean when you say Dreich, it comes up regularly and I am flummoxed ?

Hi Kate, dreich is a great word to describe the weather.
Wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these. Scottish weather at its most miserable!

We must be lucky, it’s 8C and lovely sunshine today! Trying to choose new wallpaper, then picking grandchildren up from school. Cleared a couple of drawers out too, keeping on track of one drawer or cupboard a day!

NanKate my late mother in law used dreich, among quite a wide range of lowland Scots words ( she was from Fife.) I woke up this morning feeling decidedly “peely-wally”, which is a great portmanteau word meaning “ a bit poorly, but making a bit of a fuss about it.” Perhaps I should add her sayings to the thread “things my mother said.”

Thanks Mary and Dora what wonderful expressive words. Yes a thread on local expressions would be good.

DoraMarr, peely wally where I come from, in the Glasgow area, has always meant, pale and sickly looking, and being quiet and not making a fuss.
It just shows how language and meanings vary in different reas.

Good afternoon from sunny Devon, rain overnight but fine by the time I went shopping this morning. Blood Test done ready for Annual Diabetes Review next week. Lazyish afternoon, just had Lunch, I'm going to enjoy my afternoon sitting indoors reading admiring the sunshine