to start a Middle Class Cozee Corner Right Here?

[Hullygully]

Such a good idea.

I had a nightmare in Sainos yesterday, they had run out of organic Braeburns and my dc don't like Royal Gala.

(trufax).

We have a playroom, a study and a conservatory.

The conservatory is square, wood and brick and about 10mx4m. It has a travertine floor.

It is NOT a grotty horrible hexagonal UPVC monstrosity.

I am toying with renaming it The Orangery.

Oooo nice. My mother alternates between calling her conservatory the book room or the sun room. DH wants a proper conservatory. He is South African UMC. I am not good enough for his mother. I think she was hoping he'd marry up, not a LMC Brit.

I'm just showing off now.

This isn't about class for me at all. I'm just a snobby ponce.

Me too. I got into trouble on FB with a friend from Hull for my "academic snobbery" when I said that a person who fixes a fridge is not an engineer and that I'd be mortified if one of my DDs wanted to be a hairdresser.

Alas I cannot join. I am also new money. I have only just discovered the delights of Waitrose after 4 years of Asda. The shame.

But now I eat Waitrose patisserie and naice ham in my summerhouse while the gardening team tend my bushes and the nanny deals with the children.

Overheard in playground in posh London suburb. One mother recounting her cottage holiday to another: "And I had to explain to the children when we got there that some people really do live like that". A bit more earwigging and it transpired that "like that" is only having one bathroom!

We have more than one and I am wearing Boden (2nd hand but shhhhhh) so can I join?

I have had to have that conversation about cars

In the midst of protesting my unsnobbery I realised we have a landrover.
And double barrelled surnames. And play chess, bridge and cribbage for fun.
And do the organic thing. And the farmer's market thing.

I manage to be more middle class in trying not to be. I do try not to be insufferable but I'm not convinced.

Filthy stinking benefit claimant infiltration alert....

Our television is so small that it is actually quite difficult to see it when you are seated comfortably on the sofa. And I have a delightful butcher and a charming greengrocer who deliver to my kitchen

Can I join?

I'm a bit mixed up because I am undeniably MC yet chippy - ccouncil-house up-brought parents etc etc.

We have a veg box delivered from Riverford ,does that count ,plus we also have a Summer house and a playroom and I belong to a book group which drinks a lot of wine and barely talks about the book

Sigh.

I'd love to join but being American isn't quite the thing, is it?

I will marry one of your impoverished but genteel male relatives and bring in my vulgar new money and bloodline to spice things up, and everyone can be lovely yet reserved to my face whilst positively spitting about my declasse presence when I'm not around.

I was at a picnic with an American on Saturday night and she was told me about her book group that visits the countries the books are set in. She has been to India twice with her book group.

Don't bother with a big telly cheerful I've already tried that and got no where fast with this crowd.

A bit nouveau don't you think

I don't have a television.

It broke a few years ago and we are skint

Oh cheerful you practically are MC. If you can just start learning the lingo and develop a taste in linen three quarter length trousers you have cracked it!

I do love a three quarter length trouser

The only problem Back2two is how much we are being tongue in cheek versus how much we are being brutally honest...

Why would anyone be mortified if one of their daughters wanted to be a hairdresser?

DH just made homemade falafel in homemade pita bread. Surely worth sharing in this warm and fuzzy corner of MCdom.

Isn't it incredibly gauche to discuss the size of ones 'telly' in public?