Blether means to talk in a sort of gossiping way. If you are blethering it is never serious communication, it tends towards being unimportant and light-hearted chatting.
However, a lot of time can be spent having a blether with friends and neighbours and it all adds to the spice of life.
An Irish friend thought when I said I had had a cup of tea and blether with someone, it meant I’d had a cup of tea and a cake or biscuit with someone! We ended up thinking of different flavours for the “blethers”! It was quite a laugh! What flavours we invented! He knows better now though!
Evee,
Mind you – a cup of tea and a blether would also have to have biscuits or cakes. My mum said that tea without a nibble was English tea – and nothing was worse! I love the idea of different flavoured blethers though!