sketchbook: window of the soul
A sketchbook where everything gets dumped into it, images of things, words, poems, etc. Maybe a window to the authors soul? I suppose that depends on the owner of the sketcbook and the perception of others.
I thought it hilarious when my neighbour from glasgow told me she had never heard the Geordie version of tell tale tit (it isn't like we live thousands of miles from each other and come from completely different cultures) and I hadn't heard her version either.
Geordie: tellie tale tit, yer tongue'll get bit, aal the little dickie birds will come an have a bit.
Glasgow:Tell tale tit. Yer mammy cannae knit, yer daddy cannae go tae bed Withoot a dummy tit
Here is one version I heard in America: Tattletale, tattletale : Hanging on a bull's tail : When the bull has to pee : You will get a cup of tea.
How was it said where you are from?
Oh I was tagged by Lyn. so here goes.
6 weird things about myself
1. I like boiled sea snails called winkles dipped in vinegar
2. I like to decorate rubber cockroaches
3. I like my hair to look like bed hair (daughter says I am beginning to rememble my dog-oh that means I must look cute huh!)
4. I think nothing of using porcelain teeth in a peice of art
5. I once bought fake eyeballs off ebay
6. I like dipping french fries in mayonnaise
Comments
Whew! One more weekend of partying and we're done with the holidays.
Have a happy New Year.
My hair looks like other's bed head as well...my Mom always asks if I do not want to *comb* it. Um, no. This is how I meant for it to be! : )
Hope your Christmas Day was blissful.
Warmly,
Sue
I have goals for the new year written down and hopes that I can try to be more creative like you.
Looking foreward to seeing more inspiring posts on your blog ... can't say that I'll admit to knowing what you are talking about with the childhood rhyme. I may know, but can't remember how it goes, to be honest.
Nancy Van Blaricom
Followed the winkles link and found that they are listed under edible insects. They sound like the best of the lot! Wood louse? Yecky poo!
I have heard of french fries with mayo -- but to me that just seems like adding more fat onto something already fat. Sort of like why do people put butter on hamburgers.
Now in England I put chip shop curry sauce on my chips(french fries) and here, well I rarely eat french fries.
vegemite with cheese - very Aussie,
peanut paste and salad sandwich,
I don't remember the tattle tale rhyme, but we had one that goes, scaredy cat, scaredy cat, sitting on a door mat?!?!? don't ask me what it means...
Yikes I think I'd have to pass on the winkles if they're listed under edible insects but hey the fries in mayo sounds OK! OMG someone please take all this fudge and chocolate out of my house I'm trying to resist it!
I am a chips and chip shop curry sauce kind of a gal myself :)
your mother cant knit
your fathers in the rubbish bin
eating fish and chips
Your tongue shall be slit,
And all the dogs in the town
Shall have a little bit.