good morning, think I will keep this short today for obvious reasons
The shoogly peg phrase is used in this house, it's usually a warning of danger to come, eg it's hanging on a shoogly peg
DD I am so sorry about your weather, your life is so busy I don't know how you manage to even think about opening the garden
Joyce, Lesley Bushman Fairy and I are all north of the border and there are certain to be more. We do have a lot of different sayings. This morning I am "fair scunnered" at the weeding still needing done.
my right hand is killing me this morning after weeding yesterday.
hope this reads OK
have a good day, safe journey Dove
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Morning all. I'll be giving myself a bit of a shoogle soon before it gets too hot out there! That'll be the Ulster Scot coming out in me! I think of shoogle more as a shake and if I had a door like that it would probably be coggly.
I've mentioned somewhere before that I work closely with a Scot, an Irish and a French person. We have discussed the vagaries and similarities of our language at length. It's fascinating. When I say footerin about I mean tinkering and I assumed it had it's roots somewhere in the Irish. Turns out not! When the French guy says his version it means something quite different!!! (just looked it up to see how rude it was and had to delete my typing)!!!!! Roughly speaking it means "to do" in both languages.
Yes i can confirm shoogly is very much a scottish word and seems fairly widely used all over. Topbird the west coast is superb but the midges are murder. However i holiday on the east coast at the moment and have had great weather over the past few years. heading off up to the Black Isle again in October.
Has anyone been following the saga of B3's Avon jollop? Skin so soft midge and insect repellent as used by B3, Fairy Girl's walking buddies and the entire British Army! Works a treat.
HAHA read over that before I posted and had written FG's walking biddies....sorry FG
You lot stole scunnered from us. We tend to be more scundered though because we're fancy!
Morning all, afternoon Pat, hope you enjoy your visit to town
Sorry I've been AWOL for a few days folks, I've been having a sneak peek but have been rushed off my feet, very stressed with work and hosting guests for a week! Must confess that I've taken a day off work today just for some time to myself on my own! SHUSH! TELL NO ONE!
Thinking of a name change to Shoogly womble!
Chicky, really sorry to hear about your Dads Ill health, good he has you and your sisters to rally round him.
Lovely to see two new friendly faces here! Welcome Poppyred and Sunshine smiler! great names both of you! I don't have a big garden, there's all sorts of gardens here, I live in rented accommodation and salvage most of what I use, still learning and relatively new to gardening but everyone on here has been incredibly helpful and encouraging
Dove, if anyone has earned a holiday its you and OH!!!! Safe travels, hugs to Hosta and........................ YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WORRY! ( Stern womble stare! )
Joyce re scunnered is that not just fed up? Old scots has its roots in the Danish language as you would expect with the vikings, eg Kirk is the same in denmark as it is in scotland as is hoose.
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good morning, think I will keep this short today for obvious reasons
The shoogly peg phrase is used in this house, it's usually a warning of danger to come, eg it's hanging on a shoogly peg
DD I am so sorry about your weather, your life is so busy I don't know how you manage to even think about opening the garden
Joyce, Lesley Bushman Fairy and I are all north of the border and there are certain to be more. We do have a lot of different sayings. This morning I am "fair scunnered" at the weeding still needing done.
my right hand is killing me this morning after weeding yesterday.
hope this reads OK
have a good day, safe journey Dove
A A Milne
Morning all. I'll be giving myself a bit of a shoogle soon before it gets too hot out there! That'll be the Ulster Scot coming out in me!
I think of shoogle more as a shake and if I had a door like that it would probably be coggly.
I've mentioned somewhere before that I work closely with a Scot, an Irish and a French person. We have discussed the vagaries and similarities of our language at length. It's fascinating. When I say footerin about I mean tinkering and I assumed it had it's roots somewhere in the Irish. Turns out not! When the French guy says his version it means something quite different!!!
(just looked it up to see how rude it was and had to delete my typing)!!!!! Roughly speaking it means "to do" in both languages.
Morning All,
Yes i can confirm shoogly is very much a scottish word and seems fairly widely used all over. Topbird the west coast is superb but the midges are murder. However i holiday on the east coast at the moment and have had great weather over the past few years. heading off up to the Black Isle again in October.
There's no equivalent word for scunnered LP.
DD is fair scunnered with the weather but don't know if she could translate it into French!
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Has anyone been following the saga of B3's Avon jollop? Skin so soft midge and insect repellent as used by B3, Fairy Girl's walking buddies and the entire British Army! Works a treat.
HAHA read over that before I posted and had written FG's walking biddies....sorry FG
You lot stole scunnered from us.
We tend to be more scundered though because we're fancy!
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The nearest I can think of Joyce is "p....d" off!
A A Milne
Morning all, afternoon Pat, hope you enjoy your visit to town
Sorry I've been AWOL for a few days folks, I've been having a sneak peek but have been rushed off my feet, very stressed with work and hosting guests for a week! Must confess that I've taken a day off work today just for some time to myself on my own! SHUSH! TELL NO ONE!
Thinking of a name change to Shoogly womble!
Chicky, really sorry to hear about your Dads Ill health, good he has you and your sisters to rally round him.
Lovely to see two new friendly faces here! Welcome Poppyred and Sunshine smiler!
great names both of you! I don't have a big garden, there's all sorts of gardens here, I live in rented accommodation and salvage most of what I use, still learning and relatively new to gardening but everyone on here has been incredibly helpful and encouraging 
Dove, if anyone has earned a holiday its you and OH!!!! Safe travels, hugs to Hosta and........................ YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WORRY! ( Stern womble stare!
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Hugs and beset wishes to all you lovely people
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Joyce re scunnered is that not just fed up? Old scots has its roots in the Danish language as you would expect with the vikings, eg Kirk is the same in denmark as it is in scotland as is hoose.
Bushman, scunnered is much more than fed up. Fairy would have been scunnered with all the upheaval and getting her garden back into shape.