Category Archives: Wit and Humour
Knot a Knott or Not
This post is ‘not’ yet well read. So if I say ‘get knotted’ I am expressing contemptuous rejection not suggesting you should get married. Knot garden creating a series of small rooms by using a low hedge. Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum … Continue reading
Tha’s Barns In the Dales
No not that sort of barn -‘Tha’s bahn’ to catch thy deeath o’ cowd’ No not that sort of Streak the Ray Stevens sort ‘….. Oh yes, they call him the streak Fastest thing on two feet He’s just … Continue reading
Best Punning Yorkshire Shops
If you want to play guitar in the Aire valley then call in to this shop at Greengates just up the road from the river itself. However, if like me you have settled for the Air Guitar then I can … Continue reading
Comic Postcards in Holmfirth
Holmfirth was the birthplace of Bamforth & Co Ltd and the saucy seaside postcard. The beginnings date back to 1860’s when a family of painters and decorators started to supply painted backgrounds for laternslide shows and subsequently the lanternslides themselves. … Continue reading
Charabanc or Charabang
1914 Ford Model ‘T’ Charabanc by kenjonbro (Celebrating 60 Years 1952-2012), CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The term Charabanc (not Charabang as I thought) comes from the French char-a-bancs, for a “carriage with wooden benches.” The simple design included rows of seats … Continue reading
Goole Search Engine Still Paying Taxes
The small East Riding town of Goole has announced bold plans to take on internet giant Google, with its own brand new, Yorkshire based search engine. Goole says it will keep on paying its taxes – how’s that for the … Continue reading
Wath-upon-Dearne Yorkshire
The performer Les Barker whilst not from Wath was reading poems at a festival in 2009. This ditty he wrote and performed stayed with me: It was a calm, still day in Flamborough, The channel clear and wide, As the … Continue reading
Old Barry Cryer’s Support for Hernias
Leeds born and educated, up to a point, Barry Cryer’s book now called The Chronicles of Hernia is a newly packaged comedy classic, first published in 1998 under the title ‘You Won’t Believe This But….’ Purchase from Amazon here ‘Still … Continue reading
Indifferent to Yorkshire?
I would rather be: Indecisive than in Lancashire Indentured than live in Accrington Intellectual than in Blackpool Indifferent than in Burnley Inflammatory than in Manchester Insouciant than in Preston I would also rather be: Inebriated than be intemperate Involuted than … Continue reading
Idle Entrepreneurs Or Working Men
Idle Working Mens Club is an oxymoron that has raised a smile or two in it’s time. Since opening in 1926 the rugged building has been extended not only in size but in membership which is now open to Idle … Continue reading