.... before you went out to play ?
O H, ' don't play by the '' miskins '' ?
When going swimming ' don't go near the edge ' ? !! ::)
floss xxx
If you break your leg....don't come running to me :o
RK , love that one ! ;D
Did your Mum ever lick her finger and rub a bit of egg of your face .. yuc :P
Mind you No 1 son swears I did the same ! :-[
floss x
My mother used to say 'leave your homework' it is a lovely evening go and help your father in the garden and mow the lawn. She would be very pleased with me today if she could and Dad could see me at the allotment.
Every time we left her she would say 'Mind how you go' I say the same to my daughter. Always feel if I don't, I am tempting providence. How silly is that? :-[
what you doin in here with that axe aaaaarrrrrggghhhhh (silence)!
Quote from: Jeanbean on February 20, 2009, 19:34:20
Every time we left her she would say 'Mind how you go' I say the same to my daughter. Always feel if I don't, I am tempting providence. How silly is that? :-[
Not silly Jeanbean, I say the same to my girls and 'drive safely'.
From my mum it was 'be back at 9.30.' No wonder I left home at 18.
Oh Borlotti, wished my mum had told me to leave my homework, trouble was ---
she didn't say much at all --- except ' mind the fire '' , we had a paraifin heater in the hall
and it rerrified me in the end, mnd you , when she was at work my brother and I used to
make toast on it !! ::)
floss x
My mum always asked me if I'd put clean pants on because I might get run over. :o
Hmm, they wouldn't be clean after you got run over...........
Hmm, had the don't come running to me one. Can't think of any more!
Oh but the one thing I always remember her saying if I didn't eat my dinner (usually when she was on a vegetarian phase and thought everything could be made from lentils or peppers :-X :-X :-X ) was "there's starving children in Africa who'd be glad of that meal...."
scary thing is, I caught myself saying the same thing to my kids the other week!!!! :o :o
If your not in bed by midnight you had better come home.or was that me Dads saying ;)
Have you washed today?
AAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
And good riddance. ??? ;D ;D ;D
The last time I saw my Mum she was in a care home 100 miles away I took her the usual bottle of brandy, she liked it in her tea!! She said "Oh thank you, put it in my locker I don't want my room mate to see it" :).
Mine hardly knew I existed, so the answer is nowt. I've gown into a big boy since though, and got over it. :)
I lost my Mum very suddenly seven years ago to this very day, and our very last conversation was about how beautiful the snowdrops were looking :'(
my mum alway told me to behave myself when I went out to play, never made any difference ;D
You couldnt earn your keep if you where shoveling halfcrowns ;D ;D ;D
whatever, they may be ;D ;D
Quote from: honeybee on February 22, 2009, 16:00:23
I lost my Mum very suddenly seven years ago to this very day, and our very last conversation was about how beautiful the snowdrops were looking :'(
Thats nice Honeybee
When I read the title of this post I too thought about my Mum's very last words to me over the phone held by the hospital wards secretary (she couldn't find a nurse when I called)....she spent the entire call about 5 mins trying to say goodbye. The call ended when the lady holding the phone ran out of the room with it so she didn't cry in front of my Mum. She died 24 hours later.
"Don't play down by the river"... she always saw us, it was only later when we worked in the same mill we realised they could see us from the top floor... ::)
And like HoneyBee, I was called to Hospital and she was past talking... :'(
I will never forget the nurses at the Hospital when Mum was dying and she realised it. They would not remove her oxygen mask, rules are rules. Mum wanted to talk to me and my husband. I ranted a bit to the charge nurse and eventually they took it off for a few minutes and Mum had her say. As long as there is life, save it at all costs can go a bit far at times. :'(
It was changing the drip with me, they were acting busy because family were there, I told them to save the money, she died 5 mins later.... :'(
My mother is a feast of sayings and she still comes out with some classics, but my most memorable from when I was little and it was still safe to play out on the London streets with your mates until it was dark are 'don't keep showing your knickers to the boys'..............(not quite what you think, I use to do handstands a lot!) and 'don't go around trying to catch the other kids with dog presents' (a.k.a. a bit of dog poo on a stick!) I was such a good little girl....... ;D
One of my mothers best phrases was "Ive told you a million times don't exaggerate"
I was ony discussing mothers day with my brother earlier on today.
I am very lucky my mother lives about a hundred yards down the road but we do not live in each others pockets.
paddy
(feeling quite sentimental now)
Honeybee, that's lovely - my mother died during primrose time on Skye and we were both admiring them all the way across Scotland from the East coast for a lovely wedding at which she enjoyed herself tremendously then had a fatal stroke. I kept a bunch by her face in hospital when she was flown by helicopter to Inverness, decorated her coffin with piles of them, and handed some to the youngest grandchild to throw into the grave.
The problem in hospital was that they kept taking her oxygen mask OFF, and I did not want her gasping for breath in front of my 82 yr old very shocked father, so I kept putting it back on. She couldn't speak, she was unconscious. When she died, I could tell from the colour of her face that they had taken it off while I was out of the room, caring for my father.
She used to say "For goodness sake take your nose out of that book and get out into the fresh air!" Over and over again!
Here's a tanner, go to the saturday morning pictures.
When I got home they had moved ;)
'Be in by 10' was mums thing when I was in my mid teens, that and 'be good'. I never was!
Dad's I always remember, as soon as I could drive it was always, 'No drinking, not even one, never!'. He drummed it into me, and nope, never have.....hence I am always the passenger. :-X