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Found this Mowdy yesterday, it was on very compacted ground, trying to dig in.
I picked it up and put it somewhere better.
The stuff on it's back looks dodgy but was just debris from its digging attempts.



Oh and it was a properly solid little fecker.

WTF is a Mowdy, looks like a Mole to me!

KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:10 pm WTF is a Mowdy, looks like a Mole to me!

Nailed it, its Cumbrian dialect for mole

Only ones i get are dead as the cats got them before me

It's a warm 'un today.
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Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:19 pm It's a warm 'un today.
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Put some fuel in it ya tight git!

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:44 pm

Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:19 pm It's a warm 'un today.
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Put some fuel in it ya tight git!

The ignition was off

Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 5:19 pm

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:44 pm

Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:19 pm It's a warm 'un today.
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Put some fuel in it ya tight git!

The ignition was off

No point having the ignition on when there's no fuel in it :p

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 6:27 pm

Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 5:19 pm

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:44 pm

Put some fuel in it ya tight git!

The ignition was off

No point having the ignition on when there's no fuel in it :p

Council house diesel is 1.03 Euros here, so even this careful Yorkshireman doesn't mind filling it up

On 19th January 1982, a quietly whimsical scene unfolded near the banks of the Thames: Roy Plomley, the distinguished British radio broadcaster and creator of *Desert Island Discs*, stood with dignified charm beside an antique gramophone on a parched stretch of riverbed at the bottom of his garden.
: Captured by photographer John Downing, the image is rich in both symbolism and character—Plomley, impeccably dressed, appears like a marooned gentleman, conjuring the core fantasy of his long-running BBC programme.

Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 12:08 pm On 19th January 1982, a quietly whimsical scene unfolded near the banks of the Thames: Roy Plomley, the distinguished British radio broadcaster and creator of *Desert Island Discs*, stood with dignified charm beside an antique gramophone on a parched stretch of riverbed at the bottom of his garden.
: Captured by photographer John Downing, the image is rich in both symbolism and character—Plomley, impeccably dressed, appears like a marooned gentleman, conjuring the core fantasy of his long-running BBC programme.

Is he impeccably dressed? He's wearing muddy boots and a donkey jacket.

McNab wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 3:45 pm

Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 12:08 pm On 19th January 1982, a quietly whimsical scene unfolded near the banks of the Thames: Roy Plomley, the distinguished British radio broadcaster and creator of *Desert Island Discs*, stood with dignified charm beside an antique gramophone on a parched stretch of riverbed at the bottom of his garden.
: Captured by photographer John Downing, the image is rich in both symbolism and character—Plomley, impeccably dressed, appears like a marooned gentleman, conjuring the core fantasy of his long-running BBC programme.

Is he impeccably dressed? He's wearing muddy boots and a donkey jacket.

This is a donkey jackets:

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Meh, close enough.

And I still wouldn't let him in my house with those muddy boots.

Is the auld boys coat not a Duffle Coat?

Felix wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 9:27 pm Is the auld boys coat not a Duffle Coat?

Not got toggles or a hood I think.

(Got me googling though. A duffle coat or duffle bag is made from duffle fabric (Duffel fabric from the place of that name in the Antwerp area. Live and learn eh? ...I thought they were Scottish because of the horn toggles).

TBF i never gave it a thought where they came from. I had one as a kid with toggles but no hood. I was sure you got them with buttons. Them big round things that looked like leather snake skin.

Felix wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 9:44 pm TBF i never gave it a thought where they came from. I had one as a kid with toggles but no hood. I was sure you got them with buttons. Them big round things that looked like leather snake skin.

The Wiki is quite interesting. The Navy had a version that became known as a Convoy coat. I think a lot ended up in army surplus stores. (I had an RAF greatcoat from the army surplus).

Also had a dark green Gloverall duffle when I was a student. Great until it got really soaked then it weighed a ton - but it took a lot of rain to do that

It was a saying when you seen a woman with erect nipples. You could hang a wet duffle coat from them

We lived in tenements with six in a block. If it was raining, out on the stairs was where the duffle coat was left for the night. Odd occasion it would come in at night and hung in front of the coal fire, but once we got a full fitted carpet it was out in the stars again for the night Oh how i loved them lino boarders.

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