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Gloria
 Post subject: Banks
PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:38 am 
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Just out of interest, Banks is known locally as Bonks. Don't know why, but that is what it seems to have always been known as. Probably a dialect/accent thing. My OH still refers to it as "on Bonks", as does his mother.

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 Post subject: Re: Banks
PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:16 am 
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Were the people who lived there bonkers? (as opposed to Nutters?)

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:roll: I give up :wink:

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She's obviously on a high!!

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:35 am 
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Vodka ???? :lol:

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No vodka - just getting being daft out of my system before my grandchild arrives. I don't mind embarrrasing my children, after all they did it to me often enough. But this is different.

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I thought the grandchild was a secret, you just announced it to the world!
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Not a secret from today. Now it's other gran's back from holiday and she knows, I can tell anyone and everyone I like. I promise to become very boring on the subject.

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Congratulations (officially!) Maureen.

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I've been a boring grannie for the last 11 years, it's super, much better than being a Mum, it's like being a Mum but without all the hard work and responsibility, you have lots more time and far more patience. Enjoy. :)

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