To think SIL is an arse?

[TheHouseOnTheLane]

She's so frigging up herself! Tonight she said "I was really surprised when I heard you'd given your kids McDonalds."

Yes....right...because you're perfect! My DC have McDonalds on average about 4 times a year....VERY rarely...if we're driving and there's not much else to choose from or if they go to a party where that's the main food.

This is the woman who gives her child a "healthy diet" when the Grandparents are looking after him so they are not allowed to offer him a tiny scoop of ice-cream....but when she's in charge he chows biscuits and cheap sausages by the dozen.

Not that there's anything wrong with a few biscuits and cheap sausages now and then...but why act like the Mother of Health Food when it suits you?

DH maintains it wasn't meant rudely....he says it's just her way....I say she's an arse.

TheHouse - that is entirely possible (English accent sounding posh to Aussie ears) - people who meet me here start off thinking I sound posh until they get to know me and realise I'm really just a fishwife

Bacon that's it...exactly! Another friend used to do this face about mine having the (very rare) glass of lemonade but fed her 2 year old tinned rice pudding daily in addition to chips from the chip shop and crisps!

Thumb how long have you been in Oz?

6 years - still hanging onto my English accent though
DS1 has a strangely hybrid accent - part English, part rhotic American and a teeny bit of Aussie thrown in; DS2 is still mostly English (but then he's only 2 so spends the vast majority of his time with me) but will no doubt start talking more American/Aussie as he gets bigger.

The American bits come from watching too many Disney/Pixar etc. films, btw.

I don't see my accent changing either Thumb! The DC's might though....not sure I can cope with that! We're in a part of Oz with a particularly whiny accent. (in my opinion!)

Melbourne? Or Central Coast NSW? They're DH's top picks (he's Aussie btw)