Winston Churchill used to write in the modern sort of shorthand that is now prevalent on social media and txt mssgs. Shortening words and the like or making up letters to sound like words. So lets blame him for this modern phenomenon of the two or even better, one word that’s meant to work as an entire sentence.

So when one is asked if you will take a slight reduction on the sale of something the response might be ” Sorry, Cossyliv! “ This is the shorthand for Cost of Living Crisis and in normal speak would occupy an entire sentence like: ” Thank you for suggesting that I take less for my valuable item but the cost of living crisis precludes me from accepting your kind offer”.

Small children, grandsons recently came for a stay, also come with some great expressions that are generally meaningless but sound good. When offered a sweet treat or an outing to somewhere exciting the word ” BOOODDDJA!” seemed to convey acceptance with thanks. Add as many ‘o’s as required to give emphasis with a minimum of 3 and an unspecified maximum. More means it is even more “BOOODJA!” than you anticipated.

Here’s a photo from the British Waterways Museum where we took the grandsons last week. It was pretty good . Some interesting stuff there and plenty for them to get interested in. This is a close up of part of the steam dredger that was used to keep the docks free of silt. Cafe was good too with slabs of vikkisponge, the whole event was done on a family ticket that can be used all year so Cossy Liv not impacted too much: BOOOODJA!