Sloppy

[j.sabourn]

The oil and grease used to keep them together Vernon, if they were working ones. Didn't really clean them either, suppose it was the idea that you had been through the motions of trying to keep clean. Anyhow was a good excuse for making for the Japanese bath house when in the likes of Nippon, they even supplied a companion to wash your back if you knew which bath house to go to. Ivan and Cappy probably have a list of them. Cheers JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI John.
I'm generally tidy, make my bed first thing, wash all the dishes [no dishwasher] do the vacuuming dusting, keep the lawns cut, all this for lovely meals and conversation. But in my room [office] my desk is always a mess, my wife said yesterday it's about time you cleaned up your desk it's a mess, sure I said right after lunch. Had a glass of wine before lunch; just put it on the desk when I lifted a piece of paper and the bloody wine went everywhere, all over my dongle, papers, camera, and letters waiting to post. I quietly and efficiently cleaned up then crept in for dinner saying I've cleaned my desk up, the kind lady opposite me said that's nice.
Cheers Des

[Doc Vernon]

The one place I am really tidy is in the Kitchen,must be the Catering side of me!
The Table is always set in a manner fit for a Passenger Ship, the Cooking is done by me all the time.I love it! Just recently bought myself a 5 in one Cooker, (New Wave) the best thing I have invested in in Years! (Slow Cooks,Pressure Cooks,Browns,Makes Rices.and Soups.
Was going on sale the Week I was away in Sydney so jumped at it!

Only have had it for some Two weeks now,but the Yummy foods that I have already made!
Last Week made Lamb Shanks with Potato.peas some Red Wine (yes can you believe that)
Chicken Stock,Garlick Onions (Red) and Tomatoes!
Well it came out a treat the Meat just falling off the Bone Oh! how lip smacking!

Today I have already made the Evening Meal,a lovely slow cooked Chicken Curry ,it is finished and I have tasted it,its like Heaven!

Back to tidy,yes after all the Cooking eating etc, you will find me at the Washing up Tub (also never had a Dishwasher hate them) and doing all the cleaning etc.
Plates knives forks and spoons must be absolutely sparkling,all the little nasties that hide in the Forks must be done correctly!

The Kitchen is my Haven and I get rest and pleasure there!
And to think in the past Years in my Young days,would not be heard of LOL
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

Her indoors is always at me for being to tidy and perdantic about minor things. For me it all has to be in place and looking tidy. My desk is tidy, my wardrobe is tidy to the point that all shirts etc have their own individual hanging space. I push the vac around and do the cooking, but she is better with the iron than I, so she tells me, but I change the bed and make sure it has hospital corners. I can shop in half the time and get it all, but she always tells me I can get petrol cheaper than she can. Of course I bloody well can, you never put any in the car!!!!!!!!!!!
But the garden shed.............................................. ..

[Ivan Cloherty]

#9 Sounds like heaven!

[John Arton]

When we were sailing you really had no choice but to be tidy and clean up and stow away all the gear at the end of day as it may not have been there the next day due to weather and it was not as if you could pop down to the shops to get a replacement. You always had clean gear ready to wear the next day as within minutes of getting out of your bunk you were at your place of work. This carried over to when you were on leave and like others have said I used to drive the other half crazy on getting up and immediately been ****, showered and dressed and breakfast stuff cleared away so I was ready to start any task delegated by the bosun (wife) for the day.
Now retired I take great pleasure in rolling out of my bunk at no set time and then sitting around in my dressing gown supping coffee, checking out the news on t.v. and puter and going through emails and logging onto this site and reading all the days post. Sometimes it is almost morning smoko before I get round to brushing teeth, shaving, showering and dressing, sheer heaven.
rgds
JA

[j.sabourn]

#9... Marian, thought everyone knew what soogy was, imagine yourself washing off the paintwork. Think yourself lucky your surname is Gray and not Clark or you would be called Mrs, Nobby. Slicky I'm not so sure of, could be a slicky at playing strip poker or something. Have you had a look on Google, maybe they have some alternative meanings. If that had been sickie is a well known Australian term for the shirkers or should say work shy who often take one and spend on the beach recuperating.. Cheers JS

[gray_marian]

#9 Sounds like heaven! Ah Ivan 'tis indeed, he leads a charmed life at my expense and the children think he's wonderful, think John Candy in "Uncle Buck"

#19 & 20, Excerpt from Yahoo Answers:
The explanation given for the use of this nickname is that clerks (pronounced "clarks" in British dialects) in the City of London used to wear Nobby hats, or top hats. Alternate spellings include "Knobby" and "Clarke".

An alternate explanation for the name Nobby attached to the surname Clarke is thus: 16th century monks wrote letters for the illiterate. These monks were referred to as "Clerks". The outcome of so much writing causes callouses on the fingers "nobs" and therefore Nobby Clerks was born'

In England the term "nob" is used to refer to a member of the aristocracy and by extension a posh person. A clerk (pronounced "clark" in British dialects) would deal with the common people but would be better educated, better paid and in a position of relative power. To the uneducated, clerks were posh and therefore considered to be "nobs". Hence, nobby Clark. Clerks were also required to maintain a high standard of dress, and were paid a clothing allowance. The result was that they always appeared smart. Both the Oxford English and the English Dialect Dictionaries list nobby as being of a rich man, a nob or toff, or “smart”, and gives it a wide distribution, so smart persons were "nobby".

Soggy I understand

[Frederick Lacey]

Marian. #9.... You will find that the word is "Sugi" meaning Hot Soapy Water...Used plenty of that in my time.

just a few things used on....Alleyways...Passage & Corridors//Bulkheads...Walls.//Deck...Floor.//Companionway...Stairs.//
Dhobi...Washing Clothes.//Rosie...Refuse Bin.//Scrub-out...Scrubbing Floors etc.//Overheads...Ledges, Beams etc above the head.
and lots more, played hell with the knees. especially trying to hold on to a bucket of water in bad weather, everything still had to
be spick and span for the rounds..Fred.

[happy daze john in oz]

Now retired but still awake by 0530 hours each day. Up and out by 0800 hours three mornings a week to do my voluntary work, whilst her indoors gets breakfast in bed 7 days a week and only gets up when I go out! But she is very good at housework and when we had lawns, well before the big dry, she was a dab hand with the mower. Never got the hang of a chain saw though, even after hours of showing her how to cut firewood, so now we have it delivered..