Affairs of the Heart Cyber-Sew 2011
#3262

Originally Posted by Lacelady
I love my Ghinger scissors, are Karen's better or what?
#3263

Originally Posted by JudyG
Originally Posted by Lacelady
I love my Ghinger scissors, are Karen's better or what?
Learn something every day - obviously not saying a Dickie Bird is a UK expression - funny how you don't know that until you start chatting to others. Not sure where it comes from, I might Google it sometime.
Scissors, hmm, might have to investigate the Karen ones, they sound good.
#3264

Here you go Patti - seems I used one of the 'other' variations in spelling, but otherwise its essentially the same.
The 'not a dicky-bird' phrase indirectly derives from the tweeting sounds made by the birds. 'Dicky-birds' became established as a Cockney Rhyming Slang term for 'words', in the mid 20th century. The first record of it in print is in the 1932 'P. P.' Rhyming Slang:
" Word... Dicky bird."
So, 'not a dicky-bird' means 'not a word', i.e. silence, especially in the context where a spoken or written word might have been expected - for example, 'Jack said he would write, but I haven't heard a dicky-bird from him for weeks'.
The 'not a dicky-bird' phrase indirectly derives from the tweeting sounds made by the birds. 'Dicky-birds' became established as a Cockney Rhyming Slang term for 'words', in the mid 20th century. The first record of it in print is in the 1932 'P. P.' Rhyming Slang:
" Word... Dicky bird."
So, 'not a dicky-bird' means 'not a word', i.e. silence, especially in the context where a spoken or written word might have been expected - for example, 'Jack said he would write, but I haven't heard a dicky-bird from him for weeks'.
#3266

Welcome back Lynnie! Glad you're back with this crazy gang!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
I've never heard of the Buckley scissors. I use the Marks embroidery scissors -- the "stork scissors" -- and I really like them. I do have Ginghers but they're the dressmaker shears. They were am employee gift when I worked at Minnesota Fabrics YEARS ago! I absolutely LOVE my Ginghers, and NOBODY better use them to cut ANYTHING except fabric!!!! I won't even use them to cut fleece because fleece can dull a pair of scissors before you can say "dicky-bird!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
OMGoodness!!!! I LOVE that phrase! I'll have to remember to use it! :D :D Do you have any other sayings/phrases Lesley that are uniquely cockney? Although, I guess you wouldn't know if they are unique until you say them on here and we ask you about them. :? It would be similar to some of our phrases that WE don't think of as being unique until someone from another country points it out to us. 8-)
Well, my four little lonely blocks are waiting patiently for me to work on them. I have be so-o-o-o-o busy with this move, etc. that I just don't have a minute to work on them. Whenever I do sit down, I am so tempted to pick up one and start working on it, but then I would feel so guilty because if I can do that then I could certainly get off my behind and do some more packing. :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: So there they sit in my work basket. Once we get settled, I can reward myself and finish them up so I can get my center sewed together!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
I've never heard of the Buckley scissors. I use the Marks embroidery scissors -- the "stork scissors" -- and I really like them. I do have Ginghers but they're the dressmaker shears. They were am employee gift when I worked at Minnesota Fabrics YEARS ago! I absolutely LOVE my Ginghers, and NOBODY better use them to cut ANYTHING except fabric!!!! I won't even use them to cut fleece because fleece can dull a pair of scissors before you can say "dicky-bird!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
OMGoodness!!!! I LOVE that phrase! I'll have to remember to use it! :D :D Do you have any other sayings/phrases Lesley that are uniquely cockney? Although, I guess you wouldn't know if they are unique until you say them on here and we ask you about them. :? It would be similar to some of our phrases that WE don't think of as being unique until someone from another country points it out to us. 8-)
Well, my four little lonely blocks are waiting patiently for me to work on them. I have be so-o-o-o-o busy with this move, etc. that I just don't have a minute to work on them. Whenever I do sit down, I am so tempted to pick up one and start working on it, but then I would feel so guilty because if I can do that then I could certainly get off my behind and do some more packing. :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: So there they sit in my work basket. Once we get settled, I can reward myself and finish them up so I can get my center sewed together!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
#3270

I've thought of that, too Luv. However, once I start on a block, I lose all track of time and just keep on stitchin' and stitchin'!! :lol: :lol: :lol: I do take breaks, but when I do, all I can think about is the next thing that I need to do. ;) ;)
While chatting with another QB member I remembered that I need to get some blocks finished for an exchange that's happening in October. They are simple 9-patch blocks, but there are quite a few of them -- around 80!! :shock: They will be strip-pieced so it isn't difficult. It's just finding the time to get them made!! :D :D
While chatting with another QB member I remembered that I need to get some blocks finished for an exchange that's happening in October. They are simple 9-patch blocks, but there are quite a few of them -- around 80!! :shock: They will be strip-pieced so it isn't difficult. It's just finding the time to get them made!! :D :D
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