Mazed70
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@LindenLyn @jonkay01 @MichaelRosenYes My gran used to say this, “ I don’t boil cabbages twice”.
When I said it to my husband he also had no idea what I meant.
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@jonkay01 @MichaelRosenYes When referring to a statement not fully heard, it was common to say, ' I don't boil my cabbages twice'.
Only really knew this wasn't common after saying it to my now husband.
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The brilliant @MichaelRosenYes is collecting the weird and wonderful words that we use in our families. What are the things you say at home - which no one else understands? Michael will join us on #BBCBreakfast shortly

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@MichaelRosenYes My Grandad(Welsh) always used to greet me with the questions “How is your belly off for spots?” And “How is your knees and elbows? “#WoM
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Coming up on Word of Mouth: inherited words and phrases.
We want to hear the word or phrase you’ve inherited from someone, family or friend, for a special edition featuring your stories! Tell us the bit of language you’ve picked up and who, where and when it came from!
Use #WoM
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@MichaelRosenYes When someone is stretching something out/ making hard work of a task my gran used to say they were “Going round the Wrekin”.
This is local to Shropshire where Wrekin is a large hill.#WoM
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Custom KS2 arithmetic tests are here!
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Please watch and share if you find this useful.
Massive thanks to all the members that now support the site. It wouldn't be possible without you! mathsbot.com/membership
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There is a lot of noise around former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells after the serving Post Office minister called for her to hand back her CBE. If you want to read the full story about Vennells and her cronies, please start here:
postofficetrial.com/2021/04/vennel…
#PostOfficeScandal
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Paula Vennells, CEO of Post Office, given CBE 2019 "for services to the Post Office and to charity"
Alan Bates has refused an OBE while she retained hers. #MrBatesvsPostOffice
For years Labour @KevanJonesMP has been officially asking for her CBE to be withdrawn.
Here is his SECOND letter to the Honours Forfeiture Committee 👏🏼👏🏼
The award of a CBE to Paula Vennells, "a person who resided over the widest miscarriage of justice in English legal history, is utterly wrong and deeply insulting to those who suffered prosecutions during her tenure."
We await the reply from a Committee which needs to pull its finger out.
#MrBatesvsPostOffice #Horizon

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Would you take the stairs? 😊 twitter.com/buitengebieden…
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Here's our final song of 2023, about the deserving folk receiving #NewYearHonours & the contrast with the pathetic cronyism in @trussliz & @BorisJohnson appointees. It's to the tune "There Is Nothing Like A Dame" but called "Does Liz Truss Not Feel Ashamed?" 🎶Happy New Year!🥳🍾
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