Natures Ditties

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Spring in full swing and hearing the cuckoo yesterday reminds me of good old sayings about nature, some clever, some funny, some classic. Post em here!

 

I'll start with this one:

 

The Cuckoo comes in April,

Sings a song in May

Whistles a tune in the middle of June

and then he flies away.

[felixthelogchopper]

Apples be ripe,

Nuts be brown,

Petticoats up,

And trousers down.

 

[Big 'Ammer]

"Red sky at night, Get off my land!"

 

Farmer Palmer.

 

[rapidlee]

rain before seven,

clear by eleven.

[porky]

Never fell a tree after three

[dangerous brian]

You lot are out there.

[Graham]

Spring is sprung the grass is riz I wonder where my trousies is.

[felixthelogchopper]

You lot are out there.

 

That's crap Brian, it doesn't even rhyme

[skyhuck]

"Cast not a clowt till may is out"

 

Some say "clowt" means clothing and that you should keep your warm clothes on.

 

Others say it means clod of earth or sod and that it means you should not start digging over the garden.

Edited April 22, 2010 by skyhuck

[Ian H]

Variation on Skyhucks,

 

Never cast a clout till the may is out.

 

Down this way 'may' being hawthorn flower.