To think that people have the principles they can afford?

[Hullygully]

Do you have, or know anyone that does, principles that would absolutely not be ditched in the event of greater wealth?

Jesus

Naice Benders in Buns, washed down with Cava. Followed with Brown Derbies.

The supper of kings I should imagine.

Prosecco please

Each shall have the sparking beverage of their desire, Exit. Even if it's Lambrini.

btw I can imagine ds being well up for the idea of travelling in a different area of a plane to us, as long as he had a friend with him.

Re: your hippy pal. It's easier to turn being skint into a virtue than face the fact that you have fewer choices in life than others.

It's the pickle sandwich for her

We are skint - but we did have a fantastic camping holiday last year on a remote Hebridean island ( do I get points? Mumupmanship?)

But if I could have chased it with two weeks business class in Maldives with childcare it would have been so much better.

I do find it irritating when friends who have enjoyed 'gap years' and round the world trips and skiing every year start banging on about 4x4s and effing recycling

banging on how?

yyy Aboutlastnight! Me too!

it's not so bad now we're in or approaching our 40s, but when we were inour 20s they were insufferable.

My absolute favourites though were the ones who liked to demonstrate what seasoned travellers they were, recounting tales of having haggled with some poor (literally poor) person to get the equivelent of 10p off the price of whatever.

Of course those of us who'd never been in a position to travel wouldn't understand. Wankers.

Hully. I think the thing you should take away from this thread, and let it resonate freely, is:

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approaching old age is scary

I think it's best never to mention anything ever

In fact, I'm giving up talking to people full stop.

My biggest terriblest mistake has been thinking that if you were all lovely friends you all loved each other and each other's children and rejoiced in triumphs and saddened at setbacks together.

I don't think that's a mistake, hully. That is what good friends do. This woman doesn't pass the good friend test, sadly.

Poor Hully.

I do feel for you.

Indeed, scummy.

I gave up talking for a whole year once.

Hully, if you've been friends for years and years, how come this has only recently become an issue? Has your friend only just noticed that you run your own business and that, a few years ago, you sent your DC to private school?

Or has the friend brought it up now simply because they're pissed off about something else - not necessarily you? Maybe that remorseless tick of the clock that others have mentioned ...

DP & i try to avoid flying i.e. we have flown once in the last 5 years. its not that we never will, just not often.

we didnt fly when we were young and poor, we dont now we are not. personally i find lots of 'luxury' pointless and vaguely weird.

i would rather be with good company in a beautiful wild location than in a posh hotel (which appear to be full of w**kers). i think lots of luxery is just people trying to sell you stuff.

is that rilly true tifty?

I don't know fliffy, I have felt a something for a while, but ignored it because I thought I must be imagining it.

that I've never been in a Wimpy. And think I've only been in McDonald's once.

Yes Hully it is. At the time I thought it made sense.