Trades fortnight is the worst.Cleaning a house every month for years, no bother, then trades fortnight the fellah is in, you knock on the door for your money and you get a blank look."can I help you""Yes, Chuff off and get your missus will you"
Quote from: Form B on December 11, 2010, 04:41:14 pmTrades fortnight is the worst.Cleaning a house every month for years, no bother, then trades fortnight the fellah is in, you knock on the door for your money and you get a blank look."can I help you""Yes, Chuff off and get your missus will you" Trades fortnight? What's that?
Quote from: Squeaky Clean. on December 11, 2010, 05:34:22 pmQuote from: Form B on December 11, 2010, 04:41:14 pmTrades fortnight is the worst.Cleaning a house every month for years, no bother, then trades fortnight the fellah is in, you knock on the door for your money and you get a blank look."can I help you""Yes, Chuff off and get your missus will you" Trades fortnight? What's that? Think he means factory shutdown. ( two weeks holiday)
An old tradition rarely acknowledged or adhered to that was once popular in some Northern European backward nations. I believe Scotland was the last country in the Northern Hemisphere that voted to get rid of it, as it was seen as being olde worlde and out dated and that was in the 1700s.
That'll be Stoke then I reckon. Though thought Dean was a Brummie.