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Sorry have just watched Casablanca again .BOGGART not BOGART.
Look what happened to Alice when she saw the white rabbit.
Humphrey Bogart, excellent what a good laugh to start the day off.
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Please take Bogie seriously.Casablanca was the greatest movie ever made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See you're a junkie now.
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Please take Bogie seriously.Casablanca was the greatest movie ever made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See you're a junkie now.
Aha, and so are you I see, are we anorakS
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Can't remember what a clough is but it is a well known Lanky surname.
I quote from Malcolm Bull's Trivia Trail:
Clough
[Pronounced: cluff] and derived from the same roots as cleave and cleft. Used in place names, such as Dean Clough and Colden Clough, this is a local word for a stream and for a steep, narrow valley down which the stream rushes, and comes from the Anglo-Saxon for a valley
I don't know about respect for Humphrey Bogart - my Grandma always used to call him "Humpty Go-cart"! I wonder is his surname derived from boggart? I suspect the man himself would have said his name was a shortened version of Beauregard or well-looked-upon!
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Have really got fixated wit boggarts.They really were around in large numbers weren't they.Have hunted through my books and found one by Kathleen Eyre ,"Lancashire Ghosts" a mine of information about the critters among other things like supernatural skulls and ghostly apparitions.She also wrote Lancashire Witches and Lancashire Legends 1979.
Evidently boggart or bogies[ as in Humpty] were also called knockers or skrikers and explained why my dad kept telling me to stop skriking or I'll give thee summat t'skrike about.
Wish I could remember a lot of the Lanky dialect.Sometimes sayings slip out from the subconscious even decades later.I seem to think that at schools like Balshaws the dialect was worked out of you by lots of repetition of vowel sounds in the so called "speak proper" way.Like Seven silver swans swimming in the Severn.ETC
Anyway for those of you who watch Monarch of the Glen on Tele the estate is Glenbogle-another boggart home!
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Thanks Wiganer for the definition of Clough.Sounds like an interesting book on trivia.Nevertheless so called trivia can be very enlightening.I am learning such a lot from this forum but begin to feel homesick.
So sad .Oh dear.Never mind.
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I am learning such a lot from this forum but begin to feel homesick.
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I can send you some pictures of our wet summer, that might rid you of any homesickness [img]martinsig.gif[/img]
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I am learning such a lot from this forum but begin to feel homesick.
So sad .Oh dear.Never mind.[img]martinsig.gif[/img]
I can send you some pictures of our wet summer, that might rid you of any homesickness [img]martinsig.gif[/img]
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Yes, cheer up, Lady G! An old school mate of mine visited from the US at the beginning of June and brought me some special BBQ sauce. We haven't had a single day since when it's been even half decent to get the barbie out. The weeds are high in my garden cos it's been too darned cold to get out and weed (yes, I am a wimp - any excuse not to weed! LOL!). The last time we were able to sit out in the garden was the day before we saw you and Hayley, Martin - Jubilee weekend. 2 weeks ago several places in Lancashire were flooded when 2 inches of rain fell in AN HOUR!!! So don't be homesick, Lady G - home is soggy enough without anyone shedding tears over it!
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I had a go at fixing the link for you Linda [img]martinsig.gif[/img]
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