billythekid
UTC Legend
Billy, the Agglestone is, according to Google, two miles from me.
I've not been there for 40 years.
I'm leaving it to you grockles.
I'm sure you'll find it easily enough, just follow the trail of empty drinks bottles and discarded crisp packets.
As it's been fairly dry for a few days on the heath, don't forget to take a portable barbeque as well.
Grockles!
Bit of uninteresting information for you.
We must have all read the Dandy at sometime.
It was first popularized because of its use by the characters in the film The System (1962), which is set in the Devon resort of Torquay during the summer season. Some older dictionaries suggested that it might be a West Country dialect word. Other scholars have put forward the theory that it originated in a comparison of red-faced tourists (wearing baggy clothing with handkerchiefs on their heads) to ‘Grock’, a clown and music-hall performer who was famous in the first half of the 20th century.
The word ‘grockle’ was indeed picked up by The System‘s scriptwriter from local people during filming in Torquay. However, it was apparently not an ‘old local dialect word’. According to research by a local journalist in the mid-1990s, the word in fact originated from a strip cartoon in the children’s comic Dandy entitled ‘Danny and his Grockle’. (The grockle was a magical dragon-like creature.) A local man, who had had a summer job at a swimming pool during as a youngster, said that he had used the term as a nickname for a small elderly lady who was a regular customer one season. During banter in the pub among the summer workers, ‘grockle’ then became generalized as a term for summer visitors.
https://languagehat.com/grockle/
