FOOD FOR THOUGHT AS LINCOLNSHIRE DAY 2022 DRAWS NEAR IN BRIGG

We hope plans are now being made in Brigg to mark Lincolnshire Day 2022 in style.
There's a bonus from the calendar this year - October 1 being a Saturday which means many people will be free from work and that children will be off school.
After years when little took place to mark Lincolnshire Day in the north, there was a marked and very welcome improvement in 2021 with a special food festival being held in Brigg Market Place (shown in some of the pictures above).
It was well supported by traders and by customers who visited its stalls and stands.
North Lincolnshire Council was also involved in a new competition to identify and reward the best food being made, and served, in the north of the historic county.
Brigg Blog now suggests a category might be included for beers brewed in Lincolnshire, if the food-related competition is to be repeated in 2022.
Lincolnshire Day has always been celebrated much more extensively in Lincoln and southerly parts of the old county than in more northerly communities.
October 1 each year offers people resident in England's second largest county (by area) the opportunity to eat local dishes, stock up on food produced in the county like plum bread, sausages, haslet, pork pies and cheese, and employ a few Lincolnshire dialect words and phrases to help keep this aspect of our heritage alive.
Folk can also reflect on the county's culture, including literature and music.
The Lincolnshire Flag will be flying on public buildings (example pictured above) and on flagpoles in some of Brigg's domestic gardens.
However, Lincolnshire Day always seems to lag behind Yorkshire Day in terms of general interest among the public and in the media.
Lincolnshire folk - nicknamed Yellowbellies due to the colour of tunics worn long ago by the county's regiment - might be using a few of the following dialect words or phrases on October 1...
Celter (or kelter) meaning rubbish
Kaylie - sherbert (as in Fountain, with a black stick of 'Spanish' to dip in the fizzy contents of the yellow cardboard tube)
Up street -  visit the town centre ('I'm off up street')
Benny on - very upset ('he's got a right Benny on)' Similarly, 'a right munk/monk on'
Bealing - crying (pronounced by some as be-alin with the once-common Lincolnshire dipthong sound)
Mesen - myself (similarly, yersen, yourself)
Piggy-Pag - carry someone on your back ('gizza Piggy-Pag').
All taffled up  - entangled
Guts for garters -  a warning message ('I'll have your guts for garters').
Jiffle  - fidget
Flit - move, leave the scene (also applied to changing address to a new property).
Frit - scared
Daft apeth - a silly person
Nobutt - nothing but a... (insert noun of choice).