Back in Newcastle, she plans to launch her own puppetry company, SPELK, to try to bring more puppetry to the North-East. |
Spelk is non-standard English and comes from the Old English spelc, meaning split wood. |
He is content that ye lay broken arms and legs on His knee, that He may spelk them. |
Never mind how Steve Bruce looks now, he was as skinny as a spelk when he was a bairn. |