Not quilting, but...

Sally Swindells wrote:
KJ wrote:
Ohhhh I do love these British expressions! "a brick netty" "four
square to the wind"....actually I'm not just sure what that one
means. :-) But I do get the picture.

Four square to the wind I know, especially living in a yatching area,
but I've never hear of a brick netty!

It's a brick built po in the back yard - NE expression!

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Patti wrote:
I have a feeling it's a 'wee hoosie' down the garden? g

Yup!

Hurry up and put us out of our misery Kate!

Misery solved!


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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:34:45 +0100, Kate XXXXXX
wrote:

Sally Swindells wrote:
KJ wrote:
Ohhhh I do love these British expressions! "a brick netty" "four
square to the wind"....actually I'm not just sure what that one
means. :-) But I do get the picture.

Four square to the wind I know, especially living in a yatching area,
but I've never hear of a brick netty!

It's a brick built po in the back yard - NE expression!

Hee hee! My mother's family calls it "the biffy" but I've never found
anyone else who uses that word.

I also read a book where "built like a brick outhouse" was converted
by a Russian-speaker to "built like a mirror-wardrobe".

Louise

Louise wrote:
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:34:45 +0100, Kate XXXXXX
wrote:

Sally Swindells wrote:
KJ wrote:
Ohhhh I do love these British expressions! "a brick netty" "four
square to the wind"....actually I'm not just sure what that one
means. :-) But I do get the picture.

Four square to the wind I know, especially living in a yatching area,
but I've never hear of a brick netty!

It's a brick built po in the back yard - NE expression!

Hee hee! My mother's family calls it "the biffy" but I've never found
anyone else who uses that word.

I also read a book where "built like a brick outhouse" was converted
by a Russian-speaker to "built like a mirror-wardrobe".

Louise
That would mean to me 'Built like a flimsy paper thin thing that would
shatter as soon as you look at it' - NOT James at all!

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Louise wrote:
Hee hee! My mother's family calls it "the biffy" but I've never found
anyone else who uses that word.
It's fairly common around here. DH worked with a guy with a crazy sense
of humor; he loved to say "I'll be jack in a biffy" instead of "back in
a jiffy"

Julia in MN

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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:42:50 -0500, Julia in MN
wrote:

Louise wrote:
Hee hee! My mother's family calls it "the biffy" but I've never found
anyone else who uses that word.
It's fairly common around here. DH worked with a guy with a crazy sense
of humor; he loved to say "I'll be jack in a biffy" instead of "back in
a jiffy"

Julia in MN

Aha. My mother's family is from Thunder Bay Ontario - just sort of
across Lake Superior from Minnesota.

Louise, in Kingston Ontario.