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).

Hully

But I LIKE Nescafe, even tho it is morally and aesthetically wrong

You need re-educating in MC values, Hully. Get thee to private school!

I have just given my DS organic blueberries and quinoa for breakfast and then washed his dishes with my Belle Maison washing up liquid. I only did this as the help doesn't come on a Wednesday. DS is called Tristan. In a short while I am off to do my horses, but am currently enjoying a cooling glass of Bottlegreen cordial.

I do not have a Waitrose near me, but I do have a Booths, which is, IMO, far superior.

I'm going to see DD (7) perform in a A Christmas Carol this afternoon. Beforehand I shall pop over to the priority enrolment for her next year's art class at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and later I am going to meeting about her piano lessons. I also need to finalise fencing.

I am a well read working class interloper, who likes to cook Nice Food, (organic if i can afford it) grew up on a council estate and have a double barrelled surname. Also I won't spend less than £7 on a bottle of wine...

Ok, so I have MC tastes...BUT I'M STILL F*ING WORKING CLASS!

DD doesn't go to private school yet, but we are out of catchment at the terribly hip primary she is at at the moment. There are more jaspers, cornelius's, henrys and emilias than you can shake a stick at. And they don't have a uniform..

oh oh oh and we're going to a 'darling little cottage' on the north norfolk coast for half term can't afford our usual 2 week package in the Algarve this year

I'm Chair of the local Macmillan Fundraising Committee. There's NOTHING more MC than that its fucking dull though

We live in a conservation area - surely the absolute definition of a MC cozy corner ?

Pixie - my mum and Dad were professionals, and I was brought up as we are all discussing, but 1 generation back everyone was working class. I think it is more a state of mind than a history lesson. If you buy organic food and belong to the National trust you are MC in my books.

Been informed of this thread by DancesWithWoolsEnPointe and despite being American (not by birth), I think I qualify to be UK middle class. I shop at Waitrose and Whole Foods (before moving here), I owned Boden clothing while still in the US, 2nd gen university grad, grandpa made the money, private schooling primary-high school, had a middle class job (I used Wikipedia to determine if my job was middle class or not), in love with wooden toys, I love darling cottages, National Trust sites suits me, and lovely after school activities for the oldest (youngest will be going soon enough).

I am currently having a major headache trying to decide whether we should drive all the way to Northumberland or just go as far as Whitby/Lake District for half term.

I qualify, right?

no way catzgirl - am actually swigging bottlegreen elderflower (while ds naps next to me) from the bottle (it was in a tesco meal deal) - had no clue it was posh!

Oooo - thats very nice LeQueen! Do you have shitty downstairs bedroom too?

Would love to stop and chat, but I've got to drop Jemima to ballet and Toby to his judo class. Then I've got a 3:30pm with James at David Lloyd, we're doing total body toning today.

Catch up later.

LeQueen "in days gone past"? You mean the au pair doesn't?

Both DH and I have double-barrelled surnames and I grew up with servants well, one.

We have also taken care to give DS a poncey name that would not sit badly upon a prime minister.

only got one loo though and a MASSIVE telly

It's posh and yummy maddening

I had no idea it was considered an MC drink either before a MN thread :)

I own an old Volvo that mummy gave me... I love it but my friends call it tilly's vulva.

If my friends are generally a quite posh, what class does the use if the word vulva to refer to a car make them?

Vulva in a mocking fashion.....

Welllllll...I buy my coffee from a local woman who roasts it herself. Fair Trade, naturally. And I drink it with cream from free-range grass-fed cows and sprinkling of raw sugar.

I'm glad it's almost summer because DS is done with his exhausting runaround of martial arts, private preschool, and violin...though it is almost swimming, soccer, t-ball, Nature Camp, and Literacy Hour time.

I have only nine minuscule rooms, but not a one is marred by a television set or a photo hung upon the wall. My family shots are all in tasteful silver or mahogany frames, set on bookshelves and the like.

And we have two bathrooms of course. Well one and a half, and the half is not working right now

And DS wears Boden but I don't except for the socks and scarves...the dresses aren't quite the thing and the trousers such loud colors.

But again...I'm still American. :o

Oh dear.

I'm not a fan of Boden dresses either Yank - the patterns are too large for me too. I like the coats though - then the fabric makes a lovely inlay. Same with the Joules skirts and dresses. Great for a inlay in a hood or a pair of wellies. Less enthused on an entire top.

I do have a nifty Boden ballet cardi though bought by a friend from a charity shop and lots of unpatterned Joules.