Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian


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Jobs of Days Gone By #15. – The Sign writer

THE SIGN WRITER

A gold leaf expert

a master calligrapher

artist to be read


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Obscure words explained105. melee

MELEE

confusion of sorts

or even a good pub brawl

when it’s over peace

 


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Just joking1.

I went into bar the other day and asked the bar-tender for a double. He went in the back room behind the bar and came back with a guy who looked just like me.


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Unusual U.K. place names54. – Wyre Piddle

WYRE PIDDLE, Worcestershire

famous brewery

Brewed “Piddle in the Hole” beer

On Piddle Brook


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Unusual U.K. place names 45. – Purse Caundle

PURSE CAUNDLE, Dorset

A strange name for sure!

Pronounced  the same as candle

Branch of River Yeo


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Unusual U. K. Place names – Middle Wallop

MIDDLE WALLOP, Hampshire

Of three villages

old name Waella and Hop

Spring water valley

 


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Unusual U.K. places names25. – Stert

STERT, Wiltshire

On the Devises

Andover road diversion

of Etchilhampton hill


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Obscure words explained66. – Deipnosophist

DEIPNOSOPHIST

A good dinner guest

Great conversationalist

They don’t eat their words


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Obscure words explained 63. – postprandial

POSTPRANDIAL

After a dinner

with a snifter of cognac

smoking a cigar

 


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Mississippi Pub

Full summer is here

time to enjoy catfish snacks

In the marina

ww.mississippipub.com

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