Imagine the broadest of Norfolkmen, giving life skills, teaching his rules and ways of thinking!
Mistaking the Paralympics for another, less accurate word, whilst looking at the TV guide, he proclaimed to his wife, "Doreen, the paraplegics are on the tele later". I didn't have it in me to correct him, after all for me his innocence was my bliss.
"What's for dinner Grandad?" I'd ask,
"If it's!" He replied.
"What's if it's Grandad?"
"If it's there you can eat it!"
It was usually there soon after, and I always ate it!
My impatience sometimes got the better of me and led me to ask,
"How long's dinner grandad?"
"About 6 inches, depending how I slice it!" ... Genius!
He'll tell you a 'dodoman' is a snail, a 'bishee barnabee' is a lady bird and a 'pishymere' is an ant.
My 91 year old great nanny has a few good'uns too!
"See George I didn't ought to go down the chapel today, cos your nanny's doing the flowers and I don't want to cause a confloption!"
Confloption?! I thought she'd made it up, and after the phone call I apologised to her in my own head, having looked it up... it was in fact a real word! It means a fuss! Good old Norfolk-isms, or not as I found!
Nanny Minnie, as we've called her forever (her name is Betty), told me once she wishes she was 70 again, not because she hates being 91 (honestly, you wouldn't know she was), but she wishes she was 70 because she could run down the road then, and she can't now! Mind you, she still does more than I do!
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