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 love the idea of a year round pouncing thread

Is ‘poncing’ meant to be an insult? Not sure what your point is. People do things they enjoy.

I love this thread! I make an Easter tree and then I got carried away and have Autumn decorations! They often have them in Lidl. I think it's more of a thing in Germany and America. I like the idea of proper glasses but I always break them! Might have to buy some coupe just for fancy -ness! Also always really mean to make seasonal foods - elder flower cordial, bilberry pie half the time I do half the time I miss the season!! Day to day my house is not fancy and neither am I!

Klimt in the chicken house comes under the heading of ‘likeably mad’.😀

lol.
Is there another word for what the OP is talking about??

As far as I can see, its other meaning of ‘pretentious, ostentatious’ isn’t relevant to the majority of the instances on the thread, either. People are cooking, using nice soap and glass, growing flowers!

I would associate the ‘poncetastic’ with the opposite, having ostentatious stuff out for ‘display’ purposes but never using it. I seem to remember a thread on here from ages ago where someone had a ‘display’ washing up area, with cute, wooden utensils, expensive washing up liquid etc, which was only to impress visitors, but never to be used. The same people get cross when visitors don’t understand the pensive handsoap is for viewing purposes only.

I too had a Christmas wreath on my hen run at first they thought it was treats and pecked at it, but also 2 Gustav Klimt small posters I put up in the hen house had them laminated, After the rain and the Garden path, just to make it look nice and something for my girls to look at maybe, is that poncy or just a mad chicken owner???

But I admit I was 'table scaping' before it was a thing, I have always changed the settings for different seasons and always on the lookout for something different to mess about with. Christmas the table settings are changed at least 3 times dependant on whats being served.

Its lovely to hear everyone's joys no matter what they are.

@Ciri @PoncingIsNotJustForChristmasButForLife
@PyongyangKipperbang

This is excellent, could we please have a poncing throughout the year thread? With photos. It could do wonders for the mental health of all of MN and indeed the nation.

I have a love of coupe glasses for champagne cos my granny and great aunts had them. Somehow it never occurred to me I could spring them from their mid century prison and have them myself!!!

I ponce therefore I am.......

I grown my own herbs and salad vegetables. When I ask one of the kids to fetch some sage from the garden I feel 50% smug, 50% knobhead, which I reckon is about what the MN Poncetastic Venn diagram would look like.

😁 I'm reminded of that scene in Withnail and I. "PONCE!"

I found some lovely shaped pegs in a charity shop. I painted them a suitable colour to match the other ones in my cloakroom area and fixed them to the wall. They are at small child height and are just for my grandchildren to use. My grandson comes every Monday. He's nearly 2. He was thrilled that he had grown up pegs for his coat and bag and a space for his shoes underneath. They look so lovely and so cute. He spent all day wanting his coat on and then off so he could hang it up by himself like he has seen all the adults do. It's totally poncy and unnecessary and I could just bung his things anywhere but it makes me smile everytime I walk past it.

I can only wish to be more poncey. I'm too disorganised to remember to buy a spring wreath (or make one) for the front door. By the time I'd get organised enough to make one it'll be autumn and I'd need a different one. I had friends who used to change out the hand towels and door wreaths etc for each season and holiday. Rabbit ornaments appeared at Easter and Autumn leaves bowls and cups for September.

I stopped growing vegetables and changed my kitchen garden over to flowers for cutting. I have a vase of fresh flowers on my kitchen table all through the Summer and give flowers to friends and family when I am invited for lunch. Gives me enormous joy.

Don't be using the world 'ponce' in East London, will you? It means a whole world of difference.

I aspire to poncey but never achieve it! This thread is wonderful though, living vicariously through you all. I’m vividly imagining my imaginary wreath for my imaginary chicken coop… it’s looks fantastic, I’ll have you know 😁

I have a tea cup and a mug for my work tea in the office. I travel a lot so everytime I fly through Heathrow I grab a box of fortnum and masons silk bagged Earl grey. Because it’s my favourite. The Earl only gets drunk from the tea cup. Only tetly from the mug.

I also have a thing for nice stationery. For meetings I only use a moleskine notebook. That’s my ponce. For Al other things it’s a regular spiral bound pad.

Thanks for this thread, OP! I love a bit of poncery and there are some inspired ideas on here.
I'm looking at my pink glass carafe and water glass right now.
I am also a minimalist so sometimes there's a bit of a clash, unfortunately.

The Rita Konig book is called Domestic Bliss. It’s great.

I do this stuff year-round. Don’t particularly see it as poncey though and don’t do it to impress other people (how would they know, anyway?) I’m always planting daffs in a tub or foraging for a wreath or painting eggs and hanging them on twigs. Just a sort of low-skill crafting 🤷‍♀️

Mumdiva, why wait?
You need to talk to him, and he needs to find another place for his stuff.
My family aren’t bothered about endless celebrations and plants and my garden, but they respect my need for them and accommodate it without mocking or eye-rolling.
In the same way that I don’t see the need for some of their nonsense, but it matters to them, so we make space for each other. Physically and mentally.

@Garlickit I love the sound of hand blown glass. (You should check out the local charity shops to start collecting again).
In my old house I had a glass cabinet in the kitchen to display glasses. Husband moved in and filled it with crap - receipts, keys, medicine, Chang etc etc I was never filled with the joy again.

One day I will have a place to show it off. (Needless to say that will unfortunately be when I am alone 🤣 Husband doesn't get poncey. He thinks a picture on the wall is unnecessary.)

I ponce all year round, in hundreds of different ways.
But it’s entirely for me, it makes me happy and brightens up my day. I can’t remember the last time we had visitors, and my family just deal with it as I deal with their eccentricities.
Cooking for celebrations, home made wreaths and plant decorations, using containers and cutlery and vessels that feel nice in my hands…changing my throws and bits and bobs as the seasons turn and reusing things as the appropriate time of year. It’s my hygge.

I think I might qualify for this thread!!
I have crystal decanters with whiskey in them (dh drinks it)

A painted armoir in the kitchen with a collection of glases (my weakness for the past 30+ years)

I refurbished my grandparents china cabinet & it's in my kitchen housing an entire collection of super pretty PiP Studio table wear

I have a special cupboard for tablecloths & napkins

I decant my washing up liquid but using crystal is a level up for me- v inspiring!

I have a yellow glass fronted yellow bedlinen cupboard in our bedroom for our sheets & duvet covers

I saved & lovingly collected a set of cushions for the sitting room that were so ridiculously expensive that I won't let dh use them. He has a special skill of utterly destroying cushions & pillows by totally bunching them up - he'll regularly use the top edge of the pillow to lie on instead of the flat part (hard to describe). I walk in to admire these cushions regularly!

I, too, must have the correct glass / cup/ plate/ bowl for the the food & drink & I've (mostly) trained dh too now. Of course I'll gratefully accept anything given to me in sometime else's house. I do judge bars / restaurants & love to receive a drink in a beautiful glass if I'm out. I'll take a photo.

I always have at least 2 vases / jugs of cut flowers all year round. Usually seasonal ones from Aldi but at the moment I have 2 beautiful vases of flowers - red & white roses from valentines day & white & purple birthday flowers. They being me so much happiness every time I see them

I have a very old antique chaise longe in my bedroom inherited from my grandparents who bought it at an antique auction when they were young.

I have a lot of antiques & vintage objects mixed into the more modern furniture. I live in a house that's almost 200 years old

I do this a lot. I have a cutting flower garden and an antique trug that used to belong to my granny. I ponce about with vases and flowers all the time. I grow a lot of herbs and use them a lot in cooking and wear a linen apron to do it in. Makes me so happy!

Ooh I loved that book - you should get that OP

I used to have a real lifestyle porn thing going on - never did any of it that I can recall just fantasised about it.

But I have long accepted that in fact I am the most CBA person on the planet and now just focus on experiences. I’d recommend it