The sky replaced my MP3 player

[squirmelia]

The sky flashed so many times, it was as if it wanted to take my photograph, like some kind of dysfunctional photo booth. I waited in awe, in the rain, at the bus-stop, listening to the sky, which had replaced my MP3 player, with gorgeously loud roars and crackles as music. The boy with blonde hair seemed to be looking at me, perhaps wondering why I was staring up at the sky and grinning.

I ate ice-cream as I wandered home, concluding once again that it does taste better in a thunderstorm.

The sun returned quickly and then the blue sky, but perhaps it will look dark over Will's mother's again soon.

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[nja.livejournal.com]

"Black over Bill's mother's" fascinates me. My mother says it, and I'd assumed it was a Brummie saying until I saw it in a book of "Leicester" dialect (most of the so-called Leicester dialect being generic midlands or northern - people here do say "ey up" a lot, but it's hardly unique to Leicester). I suspect it, and a lot of similar phrases, are music-hall catchphrases or something similar, and because the origin's been forgotten people assume they are ancient dialect (and unique to their own area).

"Where's it to?" is one of the few bits of west country dialect I still use without thinking, and a few of the phrases in that article claimed to be uniquely Hampshire are spread across most of the west, I think.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

That article seems to be a summary of a page in Hampshire Customs. Curiosities & Country Lore by John Edgar Mann, and in there it seems to agree with you about music halls:

"Will's mother's home was also to be found in other parts of the land, so my guess is that it could have been the catch phrase of some long forgotten music hall comic. What we can say is that the remark seems more common in this country than any other."

I quite like "cruncheon".

[metalshez.livejournal.com]

My mum used to say "It's a bit black over Bill's mothers" a lot too, and we lived near Wolverhampton. I too thought it was a black country or brummie thing, although I suppose Leicester isn't too far away.

I'll always remember her using that phrase, because once, as she said it on a canal towpath, a black man walked past and my mum was worried he thought she was referring to him!

[azaraphael.livejournal.com]

Tis beautiful, p'haps the sky wishes to rival the ocean for winner of the fickle heart contest.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Must one choose between them?

[azaraphael.livejournal.com]

I can't see Poseidon and Zeus sharing the glory.

[jaimeee.livejournal.com]

this was such a perfect journal entry.

[http://users.livejournal.com/--zeitgeist/]

Indeed, this --> "The sky flashed so many times, it was as if it wanted to take my photograph, like some kind of dysfunctional photo booth" sentence was wonderful.

Keep up the good work :p

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[extinctfables.livejournal.com]

We have met a couple of times through Ian and Eric, hope you dont mind that I have added you.

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[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Hey! I have added you back.