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[albitz]

When I was a wee lad in Norn Irn my mum often used the word "fernenst" - I think it meant in front of, or opposite. Anyone else ever heard of the word fernenst ?

Furthest (from) :-/

Dont think so. If I shouted from one room to another "mum wheres my shoes", she would shout back, "they,re fernenst ye".
It may have been a saying she brought back from the farms of Co. Tyrone, where she was evacuated to during the war. :-/

[CaptainZok]

Petty, how the outside toilet was referred to when I was a kid.

[hotel21]

Petty, how the outside toilet was referred to when I was a kid.

ours was the shunky.  Guessing an abberation from Armitage Shanks (shanksy)

[Mysteryman]

When I was a wee lad in Norn Irn my mum often used the word "fernenst" - I think it meant in front of, or opposite. Anyone else ever heard of the word fernenst ?

Furthest (from) :-/

Dont think so. If I shouted from one room to another "mum wheres my shoes", she would shout back, "they,re fernenst ye".
It may have been a saying she brought back from the farms of Co. Tyrone, where she was evacuated to during the war. :-/

This is the best I can find:

ahead of ,against. e.g. "where's the kitchen brush?" "it's fernenst the door"

[Turk]

Down here in Kent, certainly when I was a child, we used the word "wreck" to describe the grass and play areas (swings, slides, etc). 

All locals (of High Brooms) which included my dad, and the children around me grew up using that term, but although I have known others from that area who used the same word, I have never yet found it in use elsewhere!  Where, and how it was originally used I do not know but it went back many generations

I suspect it was actually 'Rec'.   
We had the Ammanford 'Rec' in my home town and here's another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreation_Ground_(Bath)

[Turk]

Down here in Kent, certainly when I was a child, we used the word "wreck" to describe the grass and play areas (swings, slides, etc). 

All locals (of High Brooms) which included my dad, and the children around me grew up using that term, but although I have known others from that area who used the same word, I have never yet found it in use elsewhere!  Where, and how it was originally used I do not know but it went back many generations

I suspect it was actually 'Rec'.   
We had the Ammanford 'Rec' in my home town and here's another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreation_Ground_(Bath)

Doh !!  Just noticed Sixstring has already mentioned it. 

[CaptainZok]

Ok then what is a moggy?

[Elite Pete]

Down here in Kent, certainly when I was a child, we used the word "wreck" to describe the grass and play areas (swings, slides, etc). 

All locals (of High Brooms) which included my dad, and the children around me grew up using that term, but although I have known others from that area who used the same word, I have never yet found it in use elsewhere!  Where, and how it was originally used I do not know but it went back many generations

We call it a Rec here Lizzie, short for Recreational Area

[Elite Pete]

Down here in Kent, certainly when I was a child, we used the word "wreck" to describe the grass and play areas (swings, slides, etc). 

All locals (of High Brooms) which included my dad, and the children around me grew up using that term, but although I have known others from that area who used the same word, I have never yet found it in use elsewhere!  Where, and how it was originally used I do not know but it went back many generations

I think that this is "Rec", which is short for
'Recreation Ground.'

Could be wrong, though; frequently am. 

It may be, it would be logical, but it was spelt as "wreck", and said in that full sense.  Maybe it was nicknamed "wreck" when recreational grounds first came into use, and it stuck in certain parts.

Many words, and names, of course started out in history in one form and metamorphised into the terms we know today.   

I should have read the full thing first 

[Webby the Bear]

a moggy is a cat. my first cat was called mogs

[Mysteryman]

a moggy is a cat. my first cat was called mogs

And a small cat is a moggy minor

[bigegg]

and miggy is where I'm from 

[CaptainZok]

Nope a mouse or any smallish scurrying animal.
Mate of mine even calls the ferrets moggies.

[Webby the Bear]

where im from its a cat

[CaptainZok]

Not very common these days but mice were originally moggies.
Hence this from wikipedia
The term "moggy" a popular colloquial term for a cat in many parts of the country, means a mouse or insect in many parts of Lancashire, notably in the regions surrounding Wigan and Ormskirk. If older dialect speaking residents of these areas are asked what a 'moggy' is, they will say 'owt smo' an' wick ', i.e. anything small and quick. In the same districts, cheese is often referred to as 'moggy meyght' i.e. 'moggy meat', or in other words, food for mice. Many etymological authorities believe that cats were originally referred to as 'moggy catchers' and the term was abbreviated over time.