A lad I once worked with in Lancashire told me he once had to go to a family members funeral in Yorkshire.
After the funeral they went back to a relatives house for the wake. You know lots of beer and tongue sandwiches and pickles ..?
My friend noticed the beer supplies needed replenishing so he mentioned this to his cousin:
"Don't worry lad we'll go to the cope in a minute before it shuts".
So they set off along the cobbled streets and stone flagged pavements. My friend couldn't fathom what this " cope" was?
Eventually they turned around a corner and he saw a big sign in the shop window and the letters C.O.O.P.
Well it made me laugh anyway.
If it was a typical Yorkshire funeral - there would have been a dust up between mourners at some point.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like my family...and we're not even from there. Last family funeral they had wound up in the newspaper. One of the cousins tried to sexually assault his cousin. Disclaimer: I stay far away from these crazies.
DeleteThose Yorkshire foreigners are a different breed.
ReplyDelete(Ducks down behind the fence before YP gets here)
Hi Wundadebz. Would it? I remember watching my hero Uncle Mort in 'I Didn't Know You Cared'and some of the great Yorkshire Wakes scenes. Thanks for commenting.
ReplyDeleteSir Geoffey Boycott and Michael Parkinson both support the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Workers football club in Old Trafford JayCee. Theakstons Old Peculier is rather nice and Scarborough is fab. It's not a bad county at all.
ReplyDeleteMy dad and my father in law were both Yorkshiremen so they can't be bad!
DeleteMy mum's grandmother came from Wrexham and her Grandfather came from hmm...Yorkshire. shush.😊
DeleteMy mum was an old lady but she managed 75 at her funeral in a country church and we held the wake at my brother's house. She was well remembered by the farming community and they all came back for tea and shortcakes, except she wasn't there to make them as she always had for every person who came to the house. Still, it was a good afternoon send off for her. It made the day a little bit easier for us.
ReplyDeleteWhat special Norfolk wakes memories Rachel. You should write about your farm and life. It would be a great read and I would buy it and read it.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dave. She had been an only child and orphaned early so almost all the mourners were people who had known her as a farmer and later in her life.
ReplyDeleteEveryone's got a story to tell Rachel. I think people live on when we write about them and talk about them. Rather like JayCee's Kipper girl story yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI like that Dave. Rachel, tell those stories!
ReplyDeleteRachel's got lots of rural Norfolk stories Debby.
ReplyDeleteWho gave you permission to refer to Yorkshire in your blog? You are risking arrest and an appearance before The Ethics Committee. Copes were invented in Lancashire - in Rochdale I believe.
ReplyDeleteI tell those stories frequently on my blog Debby.
ReplyDeleteCould well have been YP. Sorry for using the word Yorkshire in my blog.
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