Unexpected sight this morning

[AlanG]

Miko (at the time the Humber bridge was completed in the early eighties it was the longest single span bridge in the world, now it isn't even in the top ten)

I still remember going with school to watch the Queen open it.

Gather you're a codhead then...... or are you a cleggy. Virtually the same thing eh? lol

[Miko]

Gather you're a codhead then...... or are you a cleggy. Virtually the same thing eh? lol

Yep, I was raised in the great conurbation that is Grimsby and Cleethorpes under the flight path into RAF Binbrook which is a major reason I'm here in this forum today!

Your bio reads Scotland, are you an fact an exiled 'ulleh gulleh from the city of one vowel! Ha!

Miko (Yellow belly, a term for those from Lincolnshire, the etymology of which I am unsure?)

[AlanG]

Miko (Yellow belly, a term for those from Lincolnshire, the etymology of which I am unsure?)

Lincolnshire troops used to wear a yellow sash across themselves that covered their bellies. Hence the term 'Yella belly'.

[Miko]

Lincolnshire troops used to wear a yellow sash across themselves that covered their bellies. Hence the term 'Yella belly'. :smiling3:

. . . and now I know! Thanks!

Miko (I have 'nothing' in my wardrobe that's yellow, I feel like I'm letting the side down!)

[The Smythe Meister]

Lincolnshire troops used to wear a yellow sash across themselves that covered their bellies. Hence the term 'Yella belly'. :smiling3:

I love little Gems of info like that!:thumb2: