Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 28 June 2020

  • It’s looking a bit black over Bill’s mother’s

    It’s looking a bit black over Bill’s mother’s

    An East Midlands expression that came back to me on Potter’s Ridge, a small hill that has Highcliffe Nab on its northwestern end. A few moments later the first drops of rain arrived. And don’t ask who Bill was, ’cause I never found out. On strange phrases, I learnt a new word today – ‘quockerwodger’…