Hi Crowbard. I haven't come across your version of the saying - I think it must be a midland one. The East Anglian one is "We had to go all the way round by Will's mother's", meaning a long way round, or to an inaccessibleplace. Sounds a bit like Grandma's cottage in Little Red Riding hood, so possibly the middle generation's name was William?
Hi Nea. I think an earlier William, or an earlier mother, and anyway the lady in question hasn't been Sue Poole for a good many years now.
Does William's mother live over that way?
ReplyDeleteYes, I think it's going round by Will's mother's.
ReplyDeleteStrange how it always "looks a bit black over Bill's Mother's!"
ReplyDeleteAny idea where this climatic pleasantry originated?
What? Sue Pool's?
ReplyDeleteHi Crowbard. I haven't come across your version of the saying - I think it must be a midland one. The East Anglian one is "We had to go all the way round by Will's mother's", meaning a long way round, or to an inaccessibleplace. Sounds a bit like Grandma's cottage in Little Red Riding hood, so possibly the middle generation's name was William?
ReplyDeleteHi Nea. I think an earlier William, or an earlier mother, and anyway the lady in question hasn't been Sue Poole for a good many years now.