To feel "posh"

[quote leopardprintpants]@Feedingthebirds1

You've caught me out.

It's actually me, Kate Middleton aka Leopardprintpants

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Sorry, I'm calling your bluff. His weren't towelling. (Unless you're double bluffing, and the shorts you bought weren't towelling)

I could tie myself in knots here with triple and quadruple bluffs

Prince George was wearing Boden shorts for his 8th birthday 'official' photograph.

...When buying from po.p

Feels extra elite since it's a niche brand /not well known where I live

Sale on now too!
www.polarnopyret.co.uk/

once refused a cheese sarnie as he could see evidence of two kinds of cheddar

Quite right.

“Genderwitched”
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“In a month (hopefully) we will be getting the night train to Cornwall as a treat, and I will feel posh. And I can't wait.”

Goodness just the name, “The Night Train to Cornwall” sounds special. How exciting for you all. In the context of our times it could just as well be The Orient Express!

I have nominated this thread for Classics. Anyone else?

Of course no clothes are actually posh, the materials are all produced in the same way and using the cheapest labour and facilities no matter which brand you buy, often factories in China

Not true at all. I have clothes which are hand knitted in Ireland and Scotland from local sheep. Also have knitwear made in Italy, and dresses made in Japan all beautifully made.

I love to make organic sencha green tea in a pot and shopping in Selfridfes food hall.

Just used up our last bottle. No plans to travel back to the UK anytime soon so I feel your pain @diddl

"Ah! Now I understand"

Can't seem to get salad cream where I am so when I'm back in UK it's a treat!

Bet you never thought you'd hear that said about salad cream!

On the last night the theme was wines to go with food and we were encouraged to bring in food to try with the wine. I bought an M&S prawn sanger and some ham. When I got there the Chelsea ladies had bought huge sharing platters of smoked salmon, poached salmonfruits de mer, a whole sliced fillet of beef, pates, bread olives, etc etc. For me the penny finally dropped and I realised how very grand this whole experience had been.

To be fair to the rich Chelsea ladies they were all lovely, very friendly and welcoming and eager to share. I ate and drank like a Queen that night and saved my M&S sandwich for lunch the next day.

The day I am invited to a royal wedding I will feel "posh".
I fear I might wait awhile though

There are some wonderful posts on this thread and I pity the posters who don't get it.

The people that are calling this thread sad are the sad ones and I feel sorry for them. They will never feel the joy of finally being able to afford 'nice' things. Of giving your children more than you had and of treating your Mum to something special.

In a month (hopefully) we will be getting the night train to Cornwall as a treat, and I will feel posh. And I can't wait.

"I think you missed my point. They both go with salad. I buy mayo all the time now, and I know it isn't posh. But that first time, I felt posh, which is what this thread is about. Not what IS posh."

I'm not saying that one is posh & one isn't.

For me salad cream is for salad & mayo is for chips!

The story's about children made me think of dc1 the other day trying out a day's golfing activity. They told the pro who was looking after them for the morning that "Winston Churchill said golf was a good walk ruined". Thanks kiddo, I bet he loved you. It was the only golfing related anecdote I've ever related to them. Little bandit.

He also had a clear difference in his head between “ posh” “ fake posh” “ snooty” etc! Although he was never let them know he knew which camp they fell into!

@Onlyherefortheconspiracies I have very similar memories of my late dad. In the last year of his life ( aged89) I used to travel up the 200 miles once a week and occasionally he asked if we could go on a Sainsbury’s trip. He would choose his bottle of Sherry ( Sainsbury’s own cheapest) and when I pointed out he could try a more expensive brand he looked aghast! He had plenty of money but only in late adulthood so he just couldn’t do “ posh” in any way! Posh to my dad was usually inherited wealth and privelesged lifestyle throughout whole lifetime.
He did often remind us and the grandchildren n, great grandchildren though he was never the complete opposite of posh as in his own words “ we weren’t deprived as I could take an apple to school every day with me in the 1930’s, the poorest children stood by me and asked if they could have the apple core when I’d finished eating the rest”
A different way of life !

I remember feeling posh many years ago when cigarettes were brought to the table on a silver tray!

I remember my son who was hardly old enough to talk saying "no! Black olives not green".

It might have been his first sentence