Big Birdie Skirt from Clothkits
Clothkits is back! Woohoo! I am dashing out the door to buy a sewing machine before I forget how dreadful I am at sewing.
I was a Clothkits Kid – and loved it.
Many years later, we were having a summer bevarage en-famille in a beer garden and wondered over to a car boot sale next door….
There we found mine and my sister’s Clothkits wardrobe for sale at a considerably marked-up price! My mother’s handiwork had stood the test of time.
See more at Seventies fad of kit clothes is born again and Is home made better than off the peg? and while we’re having an ethical bent see Chazza shops entries at CK’s Random Ruminations (Happy 30th CK).
Filed under: Bicknacre, Clothes, Family, Fashion
From my Dad… Posted because I went home for the weekend and because I wore my white stilettos on Friday night (honestly) and because I don’t forward these things on but it’s worth sharing.
alma chizzit - A request to find the cost of an item
amant - Quantity; sum total (“Thez a yuge amant of mud in Saffend”)
assband - Unable to leave the house because of illness, disability etc
awss - A four legged animal, on which money is won, or more likely lost (“That awss ya tipped cost me a fiver t’day”)
branna - More brown than on a previous occasion (“Ere, Trace, ya look branna today, ave you been on sunbed?”)
cort a panda - A rather large hamburger
Dan in the maff - Unhappy (“Wossmatta, Trace, ya look a bit Dan in the maff”)
eye-eels - Women’s shoes
Furrock - The location of Lakeside Shopping Centre
garrij - A building where a car is kept or repaired(Trace: “Oi, Darren, I fink the motah needs at go in the garrij cos it aint working proper”)
Ibeefa - Balaeric holiday island
lafarjik - Lacking in energy (“I feel all lafarjik“)
OI OI! - Traditional greeting. Often heard from the doorway of pubs or during banging dance tunes at clubs
paipa - The Sun, The Mirror or The Sport
reband - The period of recovery and emotional turmoil after rejection by a lover (“I couldn’t elp it, I wuz on the reband from Craig”)
Saffend - Essex coastal resort boasting the longest pleasure pier in the world. The place where the characters from TV’s, popular soap opera, Eastenders go on holiday
tan - The city of London , the big smoke
webbats - Querying the location something or someone is. (“Webbats is me dole card Trace? I’ve gotta sign on in arf hour”)
wonnid - 1. Desired, needed. 2. Wanted by the police
zaggerate - To suggest that something is bigger or better than it actually is. (“I told ya a fazzand times already”)
Filed under: Bicknacre, Essex, Family, Friends, Language
January 17, 2008 • 9:23 am
Writing about http://esales.roh.org.uk/christmas/video/nutcracker.aspx
Went to see this last night. So pretty! I am of course a Sugar Plum Fairy myself – have I ever told you the story?
I was, aged 6 or so, practicising before ballet class by ‘pirouetting’ down the hall. Unfortunately, I twirled down the hall and straight through the glass front door. And emerged, on the other side without a scratch.
Sadly I was forced to give up a promising career in ballet because I couldn’t reconcile the demands of weekly classes with the necessity of watching Grange Hill.
Filed under: Bicknacre, Children, Christmas, Family
Writing about web page http://www.bicknacre.net/
Bizarrely, the village in which I grew up is now online.
You too can learn that:
Opposite the Post Office you will see a lay-by with
a phone box in. On Thursday and Saturday evenings the fish and chip van
parks here!
Some residents add the town of Danbury to their postal addresses- probably because of the ‘posh’ status that goes with it!
There is a reliable bus service (Number 36) to Chelmsford and SWF that runs every half hour. You’re not going to get far by walking- as the pavement soon runs out!
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Filed under: Bicknacre, Essex
