Author Topic: for all Geordies out there! (Read 21442 times)

Dusty · « **Reply #20 on:** October 15, 2003, 21:38:53 »

Hello to you all. I am a Geordie born and bred. I live West Denton. My allotment is in Newburn but as it has become dangerous (I put a post on earlier about my dangerous allotment) I am looking to move to another site. It is lovely to hear from people from this region. Perhaps we can keep the thread going so we know what each other is up to.

busy_lizzie · « **Reply #21 on:** October 16, 2003, 02:06:49 »

:) Hello Dusty, I remember your posting and the terrible time that you had had on your allotment. Hope you get a better site soon and one where you feel safer. I think you have done the right thing to start again and I am sure when you get your new allotment it will be great. It is good to know that so many "Geordies" are out there. Would love to keep in touch with them all too. :D Best Wishes, busy_lizzie

MagpieDi · « **Reply #22 on:** October 16, 2003, 19:31:38 »

Welcome aboard Dusty!
Which heading is your posting under? I'd really like to read it.
I'm an exiled Geordie, living in Yorkshire, but born in Wallsend and spent my school days in Stockton-on Tees.
( far too long ago to remember ! :( ;D)
Makes me feel "at home" corresponding on this thread...so please keep it going everyone!! :)

MagpieDi · « **Reply #23 on:** October 21, 2003, 17:04:31 »

Hi Everyone
Have found your posting Dusty..what an awful experience. Wish you luck in finding a new lottie.
This dry autumn has been brilliant for collecting seeds. :) Have just been gathering fennel seeds, bronze and green, and was wondering whether to sow immediately or save till spring. I'm sure I've read somewhere that they like a cold spell to aid germination.
Has the frost/sleet arrived yet up on that freezing North East coast!!?? 8)

jethro · « **Reply #24 on:** October 21, 2003, 18:36:24 »

Hi Magpie Di, has it reached us yet? has it left here yet?
This morning i had to scrape ice off the windscreen with a credit card, got sick so used dynamite ;D done the trick though got rid of the ice, the windscreen and the car :o me standing there black as a crow ( but warm) clothes in tatters thinking should i have really done that? :o.

Legless how near to Stanley did you live? as you say there is only lotties up here, but it keeps me from going mad (too late i hear you cry), and keeps me from the wife who likes nothing better than finding me jobs to do in the house :-/. She hates to see me comfortable, >:( but i love her to bits.

Beebusby · « **Reply #25 on:** October 21, 2003, 19:55:39 »

Hi all,
I hate all this cold wet horrible weather - one of my gloves blew away on the allotment on sunday - :P
got really anoyed about that.
lovelly hail stones yesterday :-/
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

busy_lizzie · « **Reply #26 on:** October 21, 2003, 21:30:11 »

Hi, Haven't been to the allotment for a few days, but my husband hurried up there today as he is building a wall for a new greenhouse, and wondered whether it would still be up. Can't get used to this weather, and feeling cold again, after the brilliant summer. Seems to have suddenly changed. We do need the rain, though but hailstones ??? ??? At least we haven't got snow yet like our Scottish friends. Have transplanted all of my lottie strawberries to my home garden, so hope they survive this weather. Keep warm all you Geordies :D :D busy_lizzie

tim · « **Reply #27 on:** October 22, 2003, 21:35:53 »

We were trying today to establish the true origin of the term.

"Derived from 'George' - the name of George Stephenson's lamp - a miner - a collier vessel - a guinea, after the figure of St George on the coin" - any other offers? - Tim

busy_lizzie · « **Reply #28 on:** October 23, 2003, 00:42:13 »

Hi Tim, I have always been led to believe that "Geordies" were so named because of their allegiance to King George during the Jacobite rising in the 1700, and also that to be a true "Geordie" you had to reside near the banks of the River Tyne.

I don't know if my fellow "Geordies", would concur with that? My Mother would have said to you "Thanks for askin Hinny, your'e a Canny Lad"! busy_lizzie

MagpieDi · « **Reply #29 on:** October 23, 2003, 01:02:03 »

Hi Tim
Busy Lizzie has just beaten me to it!!! :) Just gone to all the bother of copying and pasting the same info from website!!! Altho am now stuck !! not sure how to paste the relevant paragraph from Word to here!!! Maybe you could advise Tim please! ;)

Ceri · « **Reply #30 on:** October 23, 2003, 11:19:49 »

Beebusy, whereabouts in North Shields are you - I was working in Park Terrace on Friday and Sunday (opposite Tom Swan) and there was a little patch of lotties there that looked well tended (I could see over the fence as I was up on a scaffold - note to self - get a Sunday hobby instead! it was cold and horrid)

tim · « **Reply #31 on:** October 23, 2003, 12:11:54 »

for bl -
not me! - but many suggestions on the 'other' board.
Eg - 'highlight the text - right click it - click copy - go to destination - put cursor where you want it - right click - click paste' - Just as you do when transferring the URL of a photo. Good luck!

MD - that's a new one! - Tim

MagpieDi · « **Reply #32 on:** October 23, 2003, 17:05:17 »

Hi Tim..Here goes :)

The word "Geordie" is said to date from the early 18th century, when Newcastle people declared support for the English kings George I and II, in opposition to the rest of the population of Northumberland, who supported the Scottish Jacobite rebellions. Although the name is localised to the Newcastle area, the dialect here merges gradually into the Northumbrian and Scottish dialects to the north and to a lesser extent into Durham and Yorkshire varieties to the south.

Wow!! That was easy peasy!!
Tim.......apologies for "picking your brains" re computer tips!!! Isn't it great when something works smoothly for once??!! Many thanks!

tim · « **Reply #33 on:** October 23, 2003, 19:44:42 »

thanks for that - yes, easy - even tried it myself and it worked!! - Tim

tim · « **Reply #34 on:** October 23, 2003, 20:01:52 »

- sudden thought - can I be an honorary Geordie? - we covered Newcastle during the night raids of the winter of 1942, flying from Acklington.

And oh! for those wonderful Northumberland beaches - where the only other folk were a man and his dog!! Even only a few years ago. - Tim

Ceri · « **Reply #35 on:** October 23, 2003, 21:33:46 »

Absolutely Tim, if legless and I count as Geordies - you only have to have drunk a bottle of dog to quality (Newcastle Brown Ale to the southerners - never call it Newkey Brown - you'll be laughed out of the pub). Apparently Carlin Peas are known as Geordie Peas because once when Newcastle was under seige (history is not my strong point so don't know when), the French sailed a barge of Carlins silently into newcastle in the dead of night and saved the starving geordies - apparently there is a tradition called Carlin Sunday to celebrate this - never found a real Geordie who knew this fascinating(!) bit of local history though...

tim · « **Reply #36 on:** October 23, 2003, 22:05:47 »

- thanks - we used to put a gin in the brown - can't remember what that was called (except crass stupidity) - no wonder. But couldn't chuck a good dart without it!! - Tim

Dusty · « **Reply #37 on:** October 23, 2003, 22:31:51 »

Hi all just saying a quick hello - have been too busy with a sickly fish and having our loft converted/decorating to be on the boards much lately.

I still do not have a new allotment - I know there is no work really to be done during the winter and that when it comes around to paying fees will be when the secretaries find out what is available but I was really hoping to have a new lottie so I could start to make my plans about what to do next year. I still have to get my garden tools etc from my lottie to spruce up over the winter in readiness for the spring but find I do not really want to go up - silly really but I loved the place so much at one time and now am a little nervous of even going in the gate. Never mind I will definitely make an effort to go up next week with the car and get all my stuff out.

Hope you are all keeping healthy with your gardening and did you all enjoy the thunder storm last night and the hailstones this afternoon?

MagpieDi · « **Reply #38 on:** October 23, 2003, 23:36:21 »

Hi
Well Cerig....you've found one now!!! ;D re Carlin peas, 'fraid I'm old enough to remember that special Sunday!!! yucky peas tho'!!
Welcome aboard Tim!! My dear old dad was an officer in the Royal Navy and met my mum ( now 85! ) when his ship docked in Newcastle!!! He was a Cornishman from a long line of sailors!
How could we Geordies turn you away ...expert extraordinaire!!! ;D ;)

busy_lizzie · « **Reply #39 on:** October 24, 2003, 01:46:29 »

Yes Tim, you can definitely be an honorary "Geordie", but you would have to start growing huge, whopping leeks, ;) and join a Leek Club at the local Pub, and you would have a secret recipe for feeding them. The old favourite being "Newcastle Brown Ale", but you have to drink it first. :o

I remember "Carlin Sunday", and those horrible peas, when I was a little girl. :P

The weather was very dramatic yesterday, couldn't believe the thunder and lightening, the gales, and the hailstones. However all was calm and sunny today :D busy_lizzie

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Author Topic: for all Geordies out there! (Read 21442 times)

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