Words from a past generation

When I asked my Mum to play when I was little, she would say "I can't I've got a bone in my leg!". My Nan always used to say "Up the wooden hill" when we went upstairs to bed.

Gordon Bennett
Groovy
Fab

Blimey O'Riley
Flippin 'eck
I still go 'to the pictures' too
I 'tape' a TV programme

Sorry Bella I missed your Blimey O'Riley.

Swot
Snog
Smooch
Close dance
Cripes
Kirk
Wireless
Jumper (as opposed to sweater)
Anorak
Bonnet
Bonkers

Foxglove

My granny used to say she had a bone in her leg too

Feelingmyage

Bonnet is a lovely word, so are jumper and frock

Jumper/jersey/" Change the record"

Various assorted proverbs and similes.

I also call the TV 'the box' and the local paper as 'the rag'.
Then there is 'Tat tar for now' and 'Tatty bye' (Ken Dodd?)
'Filthy Luker' for money. No doubt lots more as I often get strange looks!

Jeepers

KatyK my partner always says he is going to 'tape' a programme! I say it is digital, no tape involved

I say

Tarrah
Blimey
Gordon Bennett
Flippin eck

I always say I’m pootling off when I leave my daughters after a visit.

Perhaps this is a farming reference:
"I'm going to go strap on the feed bag" meaning go to lunch.

Also chesterfield - usually couch or sofa now.
Chest of drawers - now called dresser

I have acouple of old Sunday school prize books that 2 elderly aunts gave me years ago, they date from 1911. In one, someone says "Oh Wilfred, you are a brick!" Meaning of course that they were pleased with what he`d done, but how many of today`s youngsters would know the expression?

Hold your horses
God love old Ireland.
The flicks ( cinema)
Pint of milk
Weight in lbs and ounces

Bob's your uncle (Fanny's your aunt and your granny's in the RAF!)

Couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding
Humdinger ( as in...that’s a humdinger!)

My daughter and some of the neighbouring children were mad on the Famous Five and picked up all sorts of odd words, I can still hear my daughter yelling at her friend, For goodness sake, use your loaf boy!

I certainly still say gosh and blimey/crikey. I didn’t know jumper was old fashioned. I’ve heard young people say it. I wouldn’t dream of saying sweater, such an ugly word.

Loo? That’s still in general use as far as I’m concerned. What’s the modern version? Toilet is just for shops and stations.

I still say bloke. I think I know it’s old-fashioned, but I can’t think of a modern equivalent unless it’s guy, and I don’t use Americanisms.

Baths instead of swimming pool. An elderly neighbour asked me one day if I still went to the baths for a swim. In the days when you could go there for a bath if you didn't have a bathroom. My dad told me he could remember going, but there were no plugs, and you had to jam your heel over the plug hole.

I've recently moved house and I've acquired a cupboard under the stairs which, when I was a child, was always known as "The Glory Hole". A couple of days after moving into my new house, I asked my DS to put the vacuum cleaner in the glory hole. He stopped dead in his tracks and asked me to repeat what I'd said, with a look of this on his face. Then he explained, in a rather embarrassed way, that "the glory hole isn't what you think it is these days Mum". I couldn't get him to explain any further but apparently, I'm not to say it in public!

Grandma70s - if not a bloke, what about a "chap"? Not that it's at all modern, but my GSs understand quite a lot of their Grannie's vocabulary these days. (Not the whole kit and kaboodle, though!)

I wondered whether to mention chap. My father used to refer jokingly to chaps and chapesses.

I've learned something new then Chewbacca that's how I refer to the cupboard under the stairs, better keep quiet now.

Will you frame -meaning will you do it properly
Jolly hockey sticks - from my comics and books
I'll go to the foot of our stairs - indicates surprise

Gordon Bennett
We still tape things too Nannyjan
I still do the Hoovering, even though I haven't owned a Hoover for years (Dyson, Shark etc)