Things you always say wrong

Turtleneck dove for some reason always comes from my mouth as Bottleneck Turtle

Also, I'm still not sure if it's actually Aubretia or Aubrieta so I say both just to hedge my bets (thankfully I don't like A very much so the times I talk about it are limited)

 

Growing up in a mining village in Yorkshire, I and my friends ate breakfast before school then, at about midday, we were called into the school canteen or the house for our dinners. At six-ish we had our teas, usually when our dads got in from work so quite a big meal. If we were still awake and hungry, supper was a plate of Weetabix at about nine o’clock, sometimes eaten in bed with the dog waiting for the plate.

Then I went off to university and mixed with people who had been to public school and whose fathers were lawyers and so on. Breakfast was OK. But dinner moved from midday to one o’clock and became lunch. Tea moved back a few hours and was tea and biscuits in the late afternoon. Dinner slid forward to seven or eight or even nine in the evening. And supper was something one ate on those evenings when one was going to the theatre or the opera.

Then I came back to live in the English midlands. I now have to adjust my vocabulary according to who I am talking to. I tell the nurses at the hospital that I’ll be in to see them for my appointment at dinner time (mid day). But I tell the dentist and doctor that a lunchtime appointment would be fine.

 

I aways say “ duck off a backs water” …….….