To change our contact details on the school's class list

[katemiddletonsothermum]

The contact details for my son's year group has been sent home. This is a sheet of paper with the home addresses and phone numbers on, obviously intended for us all to organise lots of coffee mornings and lunches.

We are the only family without a house name, or farm name, or hall name, or barn name. Oh, the shame of it. We are listed with just the street number. Our house does have a name, actually, but I can never be bothered to use it.

Should I insist that the school changes our details and amends / resends the contact list? Or should I just think f it.

When I lived in my teeny tiny council flat we a my daughters school friend round for tea. Lovely girl, her mum collected her, Lovely mum. My daughters were invited over, the address was xxxxx HALL, as in a stately home. I was . Neither any of the kids nor the other parents were bothered, just me.

Your house has a nice name, but if you want to you could change it to pps suggested very posh name (I would)

We have a name only, none of the houses on our 3 mile long lane have numbers. Great fun for people finding us when the postcode takes the sat nav over a mile too far down the lane

well I have HOuse name/village name/town/county

So ner!

I'm going to call our house "Juniper Hall" - lots of Tanqueray consumed here

It just depends on the area you live in. Some places have lots of house names instead of numbers. We're in a small village where everyone has just a house name and the village and postcode, no street names.

Years ago I was involved with litigation with a woman who called her tiny council house in a rough area with tarmac in front (illegally done by a previous tenant) and a postage stamp of grass in the back Rosebud Cottage. I suppose it made her feel better.

TheWerneth that is a really lovely name! My place could be renamed Stella Heights I guess. Laughing at Rosebud Cottage.

You could be ironic and call it Dunroamin or something equally naff, anyway, if their houses aren't on an ordnance survey map they're nothing special

When I worked in the City each M&A deal had a list like this with details of all the law firms accountants clients details on it (so easy access for setting up con calls or biking hard copies of long documents to them). The lists were always ordered by organisation and each organisation by seniority so they went like this:

Partner
[Name of property, eg: Partner Hall or The Ridings]
[weird long address listing loads of vague place names like:
The Lane
Off The Road
Ponseby
near Sneerington
dunny-on-the-Wold]
[postcode in home counties]

Senior associate
house number
Road Name
London
[Nice London postcode]

junior associate/trainee
Flat number [or 'a'/'b' after property number]
number of property and road name
London
[postcode somewhere cheaper in London, usually east]

Every deal, every organisation for 10 years.

The current name of our house is one of those twee ones, like Ye Olde Poste Office, Ye Olde Bakeree, Ye Olde Knockinge Shoppe etc etc.

I would love to disappear for a while (a year in Barbados, perhaps) and for my DH to rename the house "Dunerin." Now that would get the neighbours talking!

Some massive over-reactions on this thread. It was meant to be a joke obviously.

Re: class lists - My kids are at state schools. The PTA class reps asks people if they want to be on the contact list - most do - and they fill out a written form giving their details. Then the class rep types it up and distributes it. No one is forced to be on it or is surprised at finding their details on it. It is not done by the school.

Most parents find it useful for contacting the parents of their friends about birthdays, playdates, missing trousers ... whatever. Some people like to be able to contact other people if needed.

The amount of threads about whole class parties but the parents don't know each other well enough to get in contact if something changes/the invite is lost, this seems like a sensible idea. Provided you agree to the details being shared of course.

I have house name & number! Am I terribly naff?

Actually I don't think I am as the house was named when it was built in about 1900 and there is an original front door with the name engraved on the glass.

The name is really nice, but I never use it in case people think I am a bit wanky.

Oh and our school does full class lists with addresses, kids birthdays & mobile numbers. It is always organised by a parent and fully explained what the list is for, so easy to opt in or out. I find it very useful.

OH NO! Someone wrote a post and it got deleted by MNHQ before I even had time to read it!!!!

Hilarious how most people missed the point of the thread .
It's really naff to use the house name. Hopefully all your classmates will take pity and invite your child for lots of playdates in their halls and farms.

Can't let this thread disappear without a poem:

Oh husband, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
The school mums all drive Porsches, both Boxters and Cayennes
I work hard to keep up with the mums of my son's friends
Oh husband, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Of course, I could always sell a bit more ex Woolworths tat with a 1000% markup to the Americans and buy myself a Merc on my own.

We've been to a few, Majestic but not The Hall, cos he's a former city banker and an absolute [redacted]