My mother said I never should...

have sex before I got married...this advice was disastrous!!!

Diane Anand-Bodhi

My mother said I never should...

go out straight after a bath.

V. Read

My mother said I never should...

play with gypsies in the wood!

Rona Smith

My mother said I never should...

get married!!!

Zosia from Ulverston

My mother said I never should...

wear pink with my hair (I was a redhead!)

M. Ridley

My mother said I never should...

trust a man who tucks his shirt into his underpants.

George Purvis

My mother said I never should...

swallow chewing gum because it would wrap around my heart!

C. McTernan

My mother said I never should...

leave my crusts because my teeth would fall out!

Matty from Lancaster

My mother said I never should...

go out without a vest!

P. Fielding

My mother said I never should...

laugh too much, or there would be tears before bedtime!

Anon

My mother said I never should...

wear stilettos;

go out with wet hair!

C. Butler from Kent

My mother said I never should...

pick my nose (or my eyes would fall out!);

leave my crusts (otherwise my hair wouldn't curl);

run barefoot (or I would get rhumatism in old age);

sit with my back to the fire because I would melt my backbone!!

Anon

My mother said I never should...

speak unless I had something nice to say!

Gary Bartlett from Preston

My mother said I never should...

take notice of children who called me names, she would say 'Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will never hurt you!'

Marian Evans

My mother said I never should...

put my elbows on the dining table during a meal!

S. Heney from Ansdell

My mother said I never should...

take sweets from a stranger.

Kath from Milnthorpe

My mother said I never should...

use lipstick when wearing trousers (do it all the time!);

play with rough boys from Liverpool (I married one!);

do anything that would make her ashamed (kept to it).

K. Lane from Crag Bank

My mother said I never should...

pull a horrible face because if the wind changed, it would stay like it!

J. Jewell from Overton

My mother said I never should...

pick my nose, as it would make it grow bigger; hold hands with a boy in the street because people would think I was fast!!

Joy from Tipton

My mother said I never should...

eat with my mouth full!

Ashlie from Kendal

My mother said I never should...

forget: it's better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.

R. Carr from Knott End on Sea

My mother said I never should...

cut an onion and use the remainder the next day!

C. Cooper

My mother said I never should...

sit on cold pavements; go out without a vest; not smile unless it would rain!

S. Senior

My mother said I never should...

go out with dirty knickers on, in case of an accident!

V. Rogerson.

My mother said I never should...

go out with my hair wet;

eat whilst walking down the street.

Joyce, from Chorley.

My mother said I never should...

marry the first man I slept with.

Heather Brand

What did your mother say you never should?

Forget to always walk tall.

Anne Kavanagh, Actress
Playing Doris Partington in My Mother Said I Never Should

What did your mother say you never should?

Talk with my mouth full.

Josie Daxter, Actress
Playing Rosie Metcalfe in My Mother Said I Never Should

What did your mother say you never should?

Well they were mostly things about playing on the farm where I grew up. Things like 'never ever play anywhere near the grain bins'. So, of course, we played on top of them. Not good.

Lorna Beckett, Actress
Playing Jackie Metcalfe in My Mother Said I Never Should

What did your mother say you never should?

Wear black underwear under white trousers.

Christine Mackie, Actress
Playing Margaret Bradley in My Mother Said I Never Should

My Mother Said I Never Should

My mother said I should never marry a man who:

a) wears white socks
b) works in the armed forces
c) is an only child (although she didn't follow her own advice on this one!)

I got married in 2009 and I managed to follow her advice on all three points. Phew!

Amy Leach, Director

My Mother Said I Never Should...

My mother said I never should... suck the flannel in the bath.

Julie Brown

Pictured: Our family on holiday. We went to Morecambe, Heysham and Blackpool.

My Mother Said

My mother said I never should ... ask how much things cost! She always retorted "Money and fair words" - which drove me mad. Now I drive my children mad saying the same thing! Revenge is sweet.

Thank you for listening.

Gail Howie from Preston

Pictured: Gail's Mum, Patricia Ann Rawlinson, nee Jones

My mother said I never should…

Go out with wet hair or I'd get a cold !

Adele Yeomans

My Mother Said I Never Should

1) Sit on a cold floor too long or else I would get piles!
2) Bite my finger nails or else I would get worms.
3) Kiss girls or else my teeth would fall out. I had to test that one out straight away!

Chris Jackson, Actor

My Mother

My mother said I never should sit on a cold wall in my mini skirt because I'd develop piles. What I said my daughter never should was buy shoes she couldn't run in. Since she was carried home from the office party because she couldn't walk in the shoes she'd bought that afternoon, you can tell she really took my advice!

Jean

My Mother Said I Never Should...

... Close my eyes or ears to anyone or anything in the world.


... Underestimate the power and value of humour.


... Wear heels as I look like a man in drag. Clogs though, are a different matter!


... Be frantically dependant on anyone and her mother said the same to her.


... Let her hold me back.

Louie Ingham, Director

My Mother Said I Never Should

My mother said and still says many things. A few choice ones that probably give a slightly one sided picture but they are the things my sister and i still quote -

"Never clean too much, you will only find more dirt"

"Never eat too much before going out drinking, you won't be able to fit the pints in"

"Stride out and never look like you don't know where you are going"
(she was and still is a big advocate of women reclaiming the streets, as am I).

There were plenty more, but these three give an image of the upbringing I choose to remember.

Esther, Producer

My Mother Said I Never Should...

Run with scissors. Well, run anywhere really.

Lean against train doors (the old ones), as I may end up on the track.

Eat silicate gel packets, those little packets you find in new handbags and purses, that absorb dampness (this was when I was really tiny).

Throw things at my sister.

Eat fruit after 9:00pm.

Shout in inappropriate locations.

Lean too far out of my bedroom window.

Go too near the edge.

Squeeze my Ribena carton.

Prue Edwards, Actress

My Mother Said I Never Should

Ride around on my bike totally naked except for wellies.

Jonathan Ilott

My Mother Said...

My mother said I should never go out the house with vinegar on my top.

I cant remember how old I was and my ma doesn't remember this event so cant help but I'm guessing I must be about 6. I was sat in the kitchen eating my dinner. Ma was washing the pots or tidying up or something like that. What I was eating for dinner I cant remember but it was something that I put vinegar on. I spilled some vinegar on my jumper and my ma, told me to go and change my jumper. I couldn't be bothered and insisted that it didn't matter. My ma told me that if I didn't change my jumper, when I went out to play, hungry cats and dogs would smell the vinegar, chase me and try to eat me. Petrified I went upstairs and changed my jumper pronto! I think I was 17 before I was able to use vinegar again, but even now I'm on the look out for hungry cats and dogs!

Lenny St Jean

My Mother Said...

"Don't talk to them. They're common."

John Moorhouse, Writer

My Mother Said I Never Should

Mix my drinks
Play with the gypsies in the wood
Play with Ouiji boards
Go out without sun cream on and that doesn't include baby oil
Talk to strangers or accept sweets from them
Go to bed without brushing my teeth and taking my make-up off
Have pens in the bedroom
Have food in the bedroom and especially drinks
Tell porkie pies
Have a boob job
Eat too many sweets or bad things

Cloudia Swann, Actress

My Mother Said I Never Should

...Be cheeky to those older than me.

...Speak with my mouth full.

...Go out without my coat when it is cold.

Pat Russell

My Mother Said I Never Should...

... Eat with my mouth open; talk with my mouth full; or pick my nose.

Joe Sumsion, Director, The Dukes

My Mother Said I Never Should...

...Stay in my bedroom all day playing my records.

John "Gilly" Gillmore, Presenter, BBC Radio Lancashire

My Mother Said I Never Should

My mother said I should never start a Mexican wave at a funeral.

Bob Golding, Actor

My Mother Said I Never Should

My mother told me not to tease
my little sister Angie-Boo
but I contracted a disease
that meant what was prohibited
was exactly what I had to do.

John Hegley, Poet and Comedian

My Mother Said I Never Should

1. Don’t climb trees (because my elder brother had fallen out of one and broken his arm)

2.Never talk to the police. There must have been a story behind this one, but I was always too frightened to ask!

Kevin Dyer, Director

My Mother Said I Never Should

My mother said I never should stick pencils up my nose and run around like a monster.

Andrew Carruthers

Things My Mother Said I Never Should

My mother said I never should refuse the chance to see the world. We traveled a lot as children. This is us somewehere in the UK, but I can't remember where.

She also taught me to never turn down a glass of wine.

Rebecca Rimmer