Just saying
You have to wonder exactly what was going on in reader
K Hill’s mind when she told her children to go on the “bonking stools” rather than “bouncing stool” on a day out to the Eureka Centre in Halifax.
The mum, from Rochdale, Lancs, ‘fessed up in a letter, writing: “Over the years, I’ve been known to make quite a few boo-boos. The worst time was when I went to a video shop and asked if they had
Willie W*nker and the Chocolate Factory. Much to the amusement of the other customers.”
While Dave Offiler, who lives in Chudleigh, Devon, couldn’t keep up with his mum, or her strange saying. “When I was small, my little legs would often struggle to keep up with Mum’s fast pace, but if I complained, she’d say, ‘I am going slow, you should be with me when I’m on my own’,” he says. And just who is this Charlie
Barnsfather that Joseph O’Sullivan’s mum-in-law was talking about in last week’s Just Saying? According to Paul Campion, in Chesham, Bucks, his dad said something similar. Paul writes: “My dad always said Charlie Barnsfarns! And on dark wintry days, he’d say, ‘It’s as black as Newgate’s knocker’. The London prison closed in 1902 and was known for its heavy iron knocker.”
But we have to leave it to Jan Kiff, in Carshalton, Surrey, who wins this week’s prize for naughtiest mum-in-law. She says: “I have tried – and failed – to resist this anecdote of my late mother-in-law Alice. I partexchanged my car for a new Volvo automatic. Alice went to bingo and told the other old ladies: “Janet’s got a new vulva’!” Tell us your funny or quirky family sayings – email me at siobhan.mcnally@mirror.co.uk