Published at 19:29, Thursday, 11 December 2008

AN ASPATRIA grandmother is raising funds for a charity close to her heart with a recording of a Christmas carol in local dialect.

Wendy Campbell’s alternative take on The Twelve Days of Christmas will raise funds for the Great North Air Ambulance.

The charity is special to Wendy, of King Street, after her eight-year-old granddaughter, Abigail O’Regan, of Abbeytown, was airlifted to hospital in Newcastle four years ago after problems with a medical drain which she’s had fitted to treat fluid on the brain.

Wendy said: “She could have died if it wasn’t for the air ambulance getting her to hospital quickly.”

Wendy, a member of Aspatria town council, said the idea for the festive CD was born out of her love for dialect.

She said: “I’ve written in dialect for years and I do readings. I love it and I just don’t want to see it die out.

“Abigail loves it too. She won the junior title in the Silloth Rotary Cumbrian Dialect competition in October. We always speak in verse and she’s great at it!”

Wendy’s take on the carol sees the partridge, turtle doves and french hens given to Mary by Job, frighten the household cat in to the “cwoll ull” or coal house.

She said: “I suppose it’s more ’Spatri crack than Cumbrian dialect. It’s quite funny really.

The CDs are £3 each plus 50p postage. For a copy, call Wendy on 016973 20040.

On’t sixth day she wrote.......

Ista nut gittan me letters Jobby?

Ah’r ista just beeyan awkart?

Six geese landit this mornin’......

Theh layan eggs awe owat spot, ah doon’t knaw waat ah’s ganna stan in next,

The’v ed cat screeman up’t wa’s......

We edta git vet agyan......anutha 45 pun, cos it waas New eeyars eve.

Mutha’s noo on 100 grains ah valium...nut t’ menshun two bottles ah whiskey she’s suppan afooar ur dinna.

She’s startid ramblan away til ursel...

Arve dun nowt but swill paths, scrub an clean, me ands is red raw, an ah stink ah carbolic...

Theh must be sum way t’ show thee feelin’s widoot awe this kelter.

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