If you’re going up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, then you’re going up to bed. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Up the Hill to Bedfordshire, Down the Hall to the Cannes?”
Grant, I was pleased recently to learn the term wooden hill.
Do you know what a wooden hill is?
Give me a context here. Give me a domain or an industry.
Well, you might go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.
Is it just a wooded hill with a forest?
No, it’s a flight of stairs.
Oh, gotcha. A wooden hill.
Why would you go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire?
Because this is an expression that parents in Britain used in the late 19th century to encourage children to go to bed.
You’re going to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.
So Bedfordshire is a pun on bed.
I see. I see.
That’s delightful and clever.
I appreciate it.
Isn’t that lovely?
Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.
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