Snowdrop names

[annew]

I just got 2 new snowdrop books for my birthday, and have had a quick look through so far. I'm looking forward to reading them properly later, but the initial response from both me and my husband to many of the photos was - "Why on earth have they named that?" So many look completely unremarkable, even given that their habit may be exceptional. In any group of seedlings there are ones similar  to these, and I wouldn't dream of naming every tiny variation.
Conversation then turned to what we would call any seedlings, should we decide to. Husband suggested 'T'white'un'. This quickly degenerated into 'T'yeller'un', T'early'un, T'late'un', T'green'un' etc etc and a giggling fit.
I know this isn't going to mean much to anyone outside Yorkshire, but there are some Tykes out there who might appreciate it. Watch this space!

[David Nicholson]

This one did Anne will you reserve 't'odd 'un' in the unlikely event that there is something different out there?

[annew]

  I've already seen a few 'T'ugly'un's. Flippin' eck - too many apostrophes!

[Brian Ellis]

Should be a few on eBay labelled T'expensive un, or T'rake in the cash 

[annew]

T'bandwagon...

[SJW]

Should be a few on eBay labelled T'expensive un, or T'rake in the cash 

'Appen tha's reight, Brian. But tha' wunt gerra Tyke buying owt expensive off Ebay (the Yorkshire version is presumably Eeebygumbay)!

There's a poem called 'Snowdrop' by Ted Hughes who was born in West Yorkshire. Not the cheeriest verse...

Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.

[annew]

Well, I feel better for that....

[Brian Ellis]

T'con

[Darren]

'Appen tha's reight, Brian. But tha' wunt gerra Tyke buying owt expensive off Ebay (the Yorkshire version is presumably Eeebygumbay)!

There's a poem called 'Snowdrop' by Ted Hughes who was born in West Yorkshire. Not the cheeriest verse...

Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.

His first missus Sylvia Plath wrote a similarly cheerful one called 'Tulips' (Which is one of my favourite poems actually).  Makes you wonder what their garden was like.....

I can't get over this Yorkshire humour. As a Lancastrian I was always brought up to believe it equated to the Lady Slipper in rarity....

Never believed  a word of it of course. Southern humour however......

[johnralphcarpenter]

As they say, you can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can`t tell him much!

[David Nicholson]

True Ralph, very true!

Cheerful soul old Ted was. Of course the major problem in his life was being born so close to the Lancashire border.

Now Darren, you have to take into account that we Yorkies and Lancies are really still fighting the Wars of the Roses so we haven't a lot of time for humour (and what there is is on the right-hand side of the Pennines looking up. Not one of the battles in the Wars of the Roses was actually fought in either Yorkshire or Lancashire (as far as I remember) as both parties strongly subscribe to the view that why mucky your own back-yard when you can mucky someone else's.

[annew]

 

[SJW]

As they say, you can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can`t tell him much!

Ralph -the other one is that it's easy to spot someone from Yorkshire because they'll tell you in the first two minutes.

Darren - I think we have to grudgingly admit that Lancashire has produced some fine comics.

[Palustris]

Wars of the Roses always amused me. The majority of Lancashire fought for the Yorkist side and the majority of Yorkshire was Lancastrian.
Lets face it Galanthus are just white blobs to the vast majority of folks. and who wants to crawl on hands and knees in early winter trying to see minute differences betwixt these blobs?
And how about T'stolenone?

[annew]

I absolutely don't have ANY of those!!