have i reached the height of middle class pretension ?

[Gowgirl]

I've just realised I'm julienning carrots and cucumber for the moppets to dip in organic bloody hummus while admiring my shiny new bottle of craft gin.

Then I realised that they probally wont eat their fish fingers and chips now, and I spent all day mumsnetting so the house is a shit tip!

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I was breast feeding the baby on an antique rocking chair while watching th gardiner through the window. Does that count?

DH and I went to a National Trust place the other day with our newly acquired membership cards. We had a 'posh' picnic of crusty bread with fancy cheese and pickles from a farm shop.

We just need a Rover, a Panama hat and a wicker picnic basket to complete our rise from our council estate roots

Oh I do like a picnic, and i envy your gardener....

Dd2 cried on the school run because her joules wellies are too small. I've just dropped them off at swimming. The changing room is just a huge heap of hatley rain coats.

I need this thread I need a laugh

DH asked me to buy some fruit, so I bought apples, pears and bananas. Then he revealed that he meant blueberries.

When DD was little, I got her out a plate of chopped up veg to snack on, and she piped up - ooh, crudités, mummy!!
My friend laughed so hard she almost fell off the chair. I have no defence.

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It's the eggs! They're not ORGANIC! Run, children, run!

I'd saying that simply using the phrase "julienning carrots" instead of "cutting carrots into sticks", is the height of middle class pretension.

In my defense I worked in posh restaurants as a teenager and dh I a master chef fan but my children don't have Hatley raincoats will they be ridiculed at school? I must redress this obvious error!

These threads are always really cringe. How do people even think these things up? And how can food belong to one social class?

I was in the veg section of Waitrose yesterday and, hovering between carrots and broccolli I asked DD (2y) what veg she wanted for tea. She replied in a shrill voice 'I want asparagus. But only the asparagus tip, mummy, only buy me the tips'.

Let me see tessie, I could worry about dh being stabbed by a mad man on his way to work, I could worry about ds 10 travelling to school and being caught in a bomb, then there is my mum caught in a low paid caring job and poverty trap due to raising children as a Stay at him mum! If I'm really stuck I could worry about the new Heathrow flight path going over my house and affecting air quality or.....

I could research blenders so I know exactly what's in the dcs hummus

DD ninth birthday party.... everyone loves sushi mummy! And mango is my favourite fruit......

Don't think I had a fresh mango until my mid 20s... and sushi when I was 24....

I think the right word is "aspirational". If you feel self-conscious about a word, or a vegetable, that's the only explanation.

Surely there's a middle way Gowgirl!!

I keep finding stones from nocerella olives around the house. For some reason my kids can't find the bin when they've eaten them.

Of Corse there is tessie three words secondry school admissions

When DD started Reception on half days last year, I picked her up at lunchtime and asked her what she wanted to do that afternoon. She amnouncecmd that she wanted to go to Yo Sushi for lunch, then to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Lol tessiebear! There are actually different types of food.
I cant join in cos there:'s nothing posh in my house at the moment.
Doesn't julienne mean matchstick thin sticks? They'd snap in the organic houmous wouldn't they? Maybe you mean crudités too Gow?

Arggggh your right I've scarred my children, currently cringing in shame!......

Mumsnetting from a hammock in the orchard, waiting for FIL to crack open some wine. I baffle myself at times.

I overheard my ndns talking about me at the weekend - "well they must be loaded, they have an Ocado delivery. And he only works in security so she must be on a wedge!" - I think the conversation came about because the Ocado man parked at the bottom of my drive, so next door had to move their wheelie bin to park outside their house instead of parking across our drive like they usually do until the bins are empty!

BunsBumpBlur one of my favourite quotes

I had to google Hatley rain wear. I can imagine kate and wills little girl being snapped at dads/ uncles polo event in one of those.

My mum was keen on Danni macs, they lasted her for decades.
I love carrots, bit they are just 'cut' and boiled here ( working class)

Dd wanted to wear her pleather jacket to which I said no as it would likely rain. She went off in her Joules raincoat instead. I dropped her off at school, julienne carrots in her carrot sticks in her smiggle lunch box and shortly after that went for my weekly Bowen therapy. Dd loves mango and homemade smoothies.