Hmmmmm......up north, you say JD, wonder which soap she has picked it up from, gotta be Emmerdale or Corrie as I swear she has never said it until recently.
The piglet is great, she is 15 mths now and running everyone ragged, can hardly remember her being a tiny baby, doesnt time fly! Roll on university, lol!
Mash the tea was used before the WW2. My grand mother on both sides used the term. That was "Up north" in North Yorkshire and County Durham. Some people used to say "Mass the tea"