Last week - being the half-term break - saw us returning home to the Dudley area for a brief holiday. While there, we took Guthlac to the slightly shabby but nonetheless enjoyable Dudley Zoo, one of his favourite places.
While trekking round the reptile and creepy-crawlies house, we overheard the following dialogue:
Small girl (standing nervously in front of the tarantulas): Mummay! Iss freakin' me owt!
Mother (from round corner): Well doe look arrit then.
Sound common sense, as so often found in this so down-to-earth part of the country.
And widely applicable, I believe. Make someone called Aynuk UN secretary-general, and many of the sources of global angst would disappear.
"We are deeply offended by the blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)!"
"Well doe look at them then."
"We deeply oppose the idea of building a mosque in our beautiful, Christian city."
"Well doe look arrit then."
"This celebrity magazine has Katie Price on the cover."
"Doe look arrit then. In fact, bairn it. Bairn all celebrity magazines."
I'd vote for it.
