to ask why ponce-tastic-ness is only "okay" at Christmas? And what else are you prepared to admit to the other 11 months of the year!!

I want an Easter tree.

Did not realise that was a thing and now it is leaving a gap in my life.

I read the first two posts on this thread and shied off responding. Now I have met my people!! I love poncing my wares around the house. I regularly move pictures, vases, plants, rearrange ornaments and decant things into nicer receptacles. Why not? I bloody love a cushion move round.
An hour or two shuffling or watching a crap film on TV? My husband indulges me to a point...but I have to bide my time if it means help moving furniture, or putting up picture hooks 🤣

I'm about to fully start my Easter poncing, which bar presents, is as full on as my Christmas one. I just like trimming up and cooking and I like to give parties and dinners and make them look a bit special for those coming if I can. I get not everyone sees the point, or enjoys that stuff, but each to their own innit?

I love other people’s poncery. I’m very admiring of it.

I have a Queen Ponce friend whose kitchen table is glass topped (tray depth) and every few weeks she puts new things under it - in autumn, it’s bronzed leaves and autumnal things like mini pumpkins and tiny witches hats at Halloween, and at Christmas it’s sprayed gold fir cones and wrapped match boxes and holly.

Her children love it - she doesn’t tell them when she’s changing it so it’s a surprise. It’s very cute.

She is the sort of person that has a tidy Welsh dresser. Full. But tidy.

I'm sorry, but I had to re-read the thread title three times because at first my brain saw 'nonce-tastic-ness' and I was like, what the hell is this even about?!?😳I'm going to go get another coffee.

And I love this thread, I love “poncing” I usually refer to it as “faffing”.

For those that have never come across this meaning, the OP is definitely using it in the correct way, it’s just the word has an alternative meaning as words in English often do!

Stunt pineapple at the ready. Once I've delved right to the bottom of the fridge.

That's exactly the level of ponce I embrace.
Thank you

Lovely to hear of all the all year round poncing.

For those that don't get it, we have been poncing our Christmases for a decade or longer on here, for eg:
Page 5 | Poncetastic thread | Mumsnet

I have a set of 176 pieces of genuine silver plated cutlery. They are in the classic “Kings” design. I bought them second hand on eBay. They are roughly 1970s, with a few pieces 80s bits thrown in. The set includes extra things we almost never use like fish forks and egg spoons. It arrived tainted and thrown into a cardboard box with no special presentation box.

Here is my year-round ponce… the cutlery set is not “for best”. We use it every day and we run it through the dishwasher every night. When I purchased the set, I did so with this very intention.
I had wanted a “for best” set for years, but couldn’t justify the expense to use it once or twice a year. We also needed some new cutlery.
And so I thought “why not buy posh, and use it every day? I do deserve it.”

The entire set was £90 including delivery.

T k Maxx!!!

The GIF search came good for once 😄 Encapsulates both meanings, as in "poncing about" (pretentiously posturing) and "that ponce" (gentleman of morally dubious income stream).

I don't know about @AngelinaFibres but my cut flower garden is heavily bulb/corm based with daffodils, tulips, albums, freesias, lillies, ranunculus, gladioli, acidanthera (my favourite) etc and then I also have a bed for dahlias, peonies etc and I plant annuals like cosmos, stocks, sweet peas, straw flowers etc around them. I love the fact that I don't feel guilty about cutting the flowers for the house because that's exactly what they are there for. Plus it's far, far better for the environment since most cut flowers are flown in from warmer climes.

Most people here are using “ponce” to mean “pretentious/ostentatious” but in a funny/self deprecating way. It usually means “affected/effete” in a derogatory way so the use here of ponce is fine, really. I think what the PP was getting at was that, in East London, “ponce” means “a man who lives off a prostitute’s earnings”-so a pimp basically. Which is really not what people mean 😬

You’re not poncing properly until you have a stunt pineapple!

My poncing comes from weekly trips to the farmers market and purchasing enough treats for the weekend (not the whole week mind, lest I bankrupt myself) - figs, asparagus a bottle of wine, a wedge of really good cheese. Little luxuries.

I also have seasonal rituals of making elderflower cordial, membrillo with the first quinces, and piling up gourds and pomegranates in the middle of the kitchen table at the beginning of autumn.

They’re all just small poncy luxuries that make me so happy and that mark the turning of the year.

I don't think the word ponce means what you think it means. I'm not actually sure I understand what you think it means. Pretentious?

In a nutshell, how do you do this pls?? I've lost the will for veg but love this idea. Is there a good rota for planting particular stuff for all round blooms?? Do you plant a patch a season or layer somehow??

Presumably plant spring bulbs in Autumn for eg daffs and tulips then what?

My best friend is looking for these champagne glasses. We keep an eye out for them when we trawl the local charity shops.She wants 2 so she and her husband can enjoy something bubbly just because they feel like it.

Massive girl crush on @Ciri

I've been dithering about buying a load of matching brown glass jars for my bath products (I buy refillable so not solely poncing) and this inspo post might just be the push I needed!!

It was the hypocrisy around buying brand new to house refillable which put me off but I shall now be 'sourcing' my own poncetastic charity shop bottles thank you!

I have found my people!

I aspire to be the queen of ponce, but sometimes I get tired. Why the ponce? Because I am a bit boujie and it makes me happy - I used to pack white napkins in DD’s nappy bag to use as bibs because they were far easier on the eye. Fresh flowers, little salt spoons, decanting hand wash, seasonal door wreaths, it’s all so lovely and sophisticated and makes me happy. I live in an old house, in an old town popular with tourists and felt peak validation when groups of Chinese tourists started taking photos of my poncetastic house 😂.

Not quite the same thing but why is it only socially acceptable to wear sequins at Christmas?? I want to make like Abba and wear them all the time!

I do little displays on our mantle / fireplace for valentines, easter etc. I also have a jug of local lavender dried my bedroom. Also making the transition from cards to proper note paper too. Personalised. Beginner level ponce?