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MotownGal

MotownGal Report 27 Jun 2024 19:39

Breakfast or lunchtime show host along with a female presenter. Belle. :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 27 Jun 2024 19:39

Are you splitting hairs Ann :-D :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 27 Jun 2024 19:39

Been weird weather here Fly…blue skies then black cloud…..bits of rain and a really strong wind :-0

Think they have given gales for up North :-0

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 27 Jun 2024 19:39

Translate Fly :-S :-D :-D

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 27 Jun 2024 19:40

Who is Billy? :-S

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 27 Jun 2024 19:40

I am Belle :-D :-D

Von

Von Report 27 Jun 2024 19:40

Still sunny here just saying ;-) ;-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 27 Jun 2024 19:41

Fly normally Maddie ;-) :-D

Fly

Fly Report 27 Jun 2024 19:42

Billy lives over yonder MG :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 27 Jun 2024 19:42

....and here, I have the bay windows open and it is very pleasant :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 27 Jun 2024 19:42

It's looking a bit black over Bill's mother's, is often heard in the English Midlands when dark clouds appear on the horizon, heralding rain. But who is Bill?
"When I was a young boy the only person I knew called Bill was very old and it made me wonder how old must Bill's mother be?," said Matt McHugh, who contacted BBC News seeking the origin of the phrase.
"And why does she move house so much?"
Some believe "Bill" refers to William Shakespeare, whose mother Mary Arden lived in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
However, the smart money is on Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German emperor and king of Prussia, abdicating at the end of World War One.
Germany's foreign policy at that time echoed Wilhelm's changeable and blustering character, according to the Open University., external
Black Country poet Brendan Hawthorne, external said: "If there was stormy weather coming from the East they would say it's black over Bill's mother's." :-D :-D

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 27 Jun 2024 19:42

Even more confused now Belle. :-D :-D

Fly

Fly Report 27 Jun 2024 19:43

Gusty wind here Ann :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 27 Jun 2024 19:43

It must be a Yorkie saying ;-) :-D

Von

Von Report 27 Jun 2024 19:44

I’ve just closed my windows as I was getting chilly. Mind you I was wearing shorts ;-) ;-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 27 Jun 2024 19:44

Thanks for that Ann :-D :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 27 Jun 2024 19:45

Steady Von :-0 :-0 :-D

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 27 Jun 2024 19:45

Thanks for that Ann a fully comprehensive answer if I may say so. :-)

I lived in the Midlands but never heard of that one before. :-S

Maybe like Up In Annies Room Behind the Clock, when something cannot be found. :-D :-D

Von

Von Report 27 Jun 2024 19:45

Maybe it’s the same billy who didn’t have any mates ;-)

Fly

Fly Report 27 Jun 2024 19:45

Cheers Ann :-D :-D :-D