We started calling dressing gowns “dingle downs” when our eldest was two or three, however he is now ten years old and we still call them that, even times when there aren’t any children around!
Think about how many other words we abbreviate, alter, extend. How quickly they become habit and we all know what we mean, even when it gets us strange looks on the numerous occasions that they slip out in public. I am sitting here now trying to think of all our other ‘pet words’. Will we grow out of this habit or will my husband and I still refer to them as dingle downs when are older, will it fast track us into the care home?
I am off now to go and put on a fresh pot of cottee, while wearing my jimmie jamies and dingle down!!
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