Snarlock: Whats an Egg Butty?
Snarlock ????????
An egg butty is a lancashire term for an egg sandwich.
This story is at the Commanders request ...
I will take you back to November 2007 when a freind of Derricks was moving house. He was moving from the big farmhouse in to the old outbarn which had been converted in to a house. Unfortunately the road to it was not finished and as such the last two hundred yards of the road was still field.
The removal men took one look and scarperd and so the only thing for it was to use the tractor and low loader trailer. What followed was hilarious.
We had conscripted all of the surrounding farmers to help, we loaded all of the furniture on to the trailer, then came the old safe.
This thing is seven feet high, four feet wide and three feet long and made out of solid steel. after three hours of trying to get it down the stairs, they took the bedroom window out and lifted it down with a loader.
Then came his piano. that came out easily. All this was piled on to the low loader. and off we went.
There were three farmers sat on the sofa, one in the armchair, one on the kitchen table and I was sat on the piano stool.
As it was a lovely day I decided to play the piano and sing a song.
So I played the piano ( badly ) and started to sing ( out of tune ) the following song :-
Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go
The sight of eight farmers sat on a trailer load of furniture, with the only woman playing the piano and singing made the local newspaper under the headline ..........
HILLBILLYS INVADE LANCASHIRE ................