My 5 year old niece, cousin ME, has recently discovered a popular local phrase. If she is hot she announces to anyone who might care to listen,
Cousin ME: ”Oohhh I’m sweating cobs.”
Charming right? Nothing wrong with that. And, when it’s cold she announces,
Miss ME: ”Brrrr, I’m freezing cobs.”
Equally cute and kind of clever in a way right?
But…
BUT….
When she is tired, or as she says, ’shattered’….it kind of has a different effect.
Snort.
I cannot wait for the day when she announces to her teacher,
Cousin ME: ”Ohhh I’m ’shatting cobs Mrs Shively. When’s break?”
Bad Auntie Jo
P.S. A cob is a bread roll where I come from, just in case you wondered.
P.P.S A Port Aventura post will winging it’s way to you soon. I couldn’t blog while I was away as the wire I was given for my laptop was about as good as the vegetarian food, so I am on major catch up as well as having a ton of washing, ironing, tidying, cleaning and sleeping to do. It was a fab place though and I’m sure I’ll go back.
Adios. I must go to bed otherwise there may be a serious bread related mishap all over my floor.
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October 28th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I’m laughing cobs!
I hope the shatting was avoided. It felt so wrong typing that…..
October 29th, 2009 at 1:51 am
From now on I will be sweating cobs. I don’t know if I will be shatting anything, though. I’m laughing my socks off.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:40 am
I think I prefer the sweating cobs to the I am sweating like a stuffed pig that mini came back from my mothers saying
October 29th, 2009 at 3:49 am
I’m laughing cobs too….
October 29th, 2009 at 5:52 am
ee, by ‘eck, you’re making me all home sick.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:39 am
I’m chortling cobs too!
October 29th, 2009 at 7:57 am
You must be from the same part of the world as me. Cob is an odd word for a bread roll, I’ll grant you, but surely not as strange as “barmcake” or “muffin” as folk in my my adopted home call them.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I would love to see the teacher’s face when and if that sentence is said!
CJ xx
October 29th, 2009 at 8:50 am
LOL…That brings back memories of when I lived in Nottingham. At work, we always had “the cob lady” deliver our sandwiches…Her hairstyle was in the shape of a cob too, so aptly named…
Sweating cobs! LOL, I bet she did too after a hard days work
x
October 29th, 2009 at 9:28 am
I hope she says it during mass!
October 29th, 2009 at 11:00 am
I am glad you explained the bread roll meaning—I was picturing cobs of corn!!
October 29th, 2009 at 11:04 am
good to have you back, my dear.
miss ME sounds like such a pistol. 
oh and I posted a video of Sugar the other day. Miss M might like it.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:32 am
My 3 year old granddaughter’s favourite word of the moment is ‘actually’!
October 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I don’t know if you remember the book A Doll’s House by Rumer Godden from when you were small, but one of the dolls dusts to ‘clear the cobs’ (because she thinks they’re what make the cobwebs).
October 30th, 2009 at 11:45 am
I remember the Baps at Bernie’s Inn my boys were so fond of…hard little missiles of bread that if launched at the head could do permanent brain damage…now, sweating baps would have been quite painful, I fear! I adore Counsin ME, by the way!
Sandi
November 1st, 2009 at 2:07 am
I now have to explain to supermum exactly why I laughed out loud whilst sorting out her Amazon prime shared membership.