My mother had two sayings (amongst others), one was when we wanted to know where something was. Mum would say it was up in Annie's room behind the clock. Now I have wondered if she was saying up in Nanny's room behind the clock.
Did anyone else have this saying?
The other was that you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die. I thought it meant a speck but I later learned it was an old imperial measure and quite substantial.
Both very well used sayings in my family. My grandmother was called Annie, but there was never anything behind her clock. Confused me to death when I was little
Are you from Durham by any chance?
Another couple I have thought of : -
"All behind like a cows tail" - when slow in getting anything done.
"This will never get the bairn a new coat" - when it was time to get on with it. (I always thought I was going to be the lucky recipient of the new coat, but it never seemed to happen
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Mo
