To want my eldest DCs to leave home?

[Leedsmum2b]

DH and I have eight children in total. (We are so knackered that we couldn't be bothered to name the youngest one, we just call her The Bairn . It doesn't seem to bother her much though she does still have trouble with her personal pronouns.)

Anyway, our four eldest DCs, two boys and two girls, have been earning a wage for over 60 years now, but still show no signs of wanting to leave home. I wouldn't mind if they were more use around the place, but they're really impulsive and daft - they're always rushing round to their grandpa's because they've misheard someone saying he's flaying giraffes and it turns out he's playing draughts or something similar. They're always getting in a mess over some silly misunderstanding. (You can imagine the consternation when I announced that I wanted to tune up my old banjo ).

The only good thing is that our tenement house must have appreciated considerably over all this time, so if DH and I could just get these kids off our hands we could sell up and move to Marbella.

So, AIBU to be black affronted?

black affronted?

And I can't for the life of me figure out which book/film/play this could be and I feel really thick

I don't understand. But I'm sure it's funny....

Don't see what you're black affronted about but maybe if you weren't such a good cook they'd be more inclined to move on?

Come on OP....book, film, play. How many words? first word...?

what does black affronted mean then? I assumed it was a typo.

It is a bit niche. Think my reading material is a bit lowbrow for the erudite mnetters . (Not so much a book/film/play as a comic strip...)

She's from Dundee. Glebe Street.

nods knowledgebly

That Daphne must eat you out of house and home.

realises she's just outed herself as a lowbrow reader of comic strips

tsk. Have you been reading Viz again?

Sorry, wasn't trying to be deliberately obscure . I think 'black affronted' broadly equates to 'pissed off', I use it as a handy catch-all expression of mardiness these days

Tell them to go live with Grandpa.

And those twins must drive you mental.

may a couple of the older ones could go and live in the but and ben and grow organic veg and sell it at the local frmers market.

"Black affronted" is embarassed and angry, with a touch of shame - you'd be black affronted if your DC were caught scrumping, for example, because it calls into question your parenting skills.

Butterball, Old Lady - hurray!

I wouldn't mind so much, but I haven't had a decent holiday in years, just trips to an old shed called the But an' Ben - and that always ends in some contretemps with a goat and a weak pun on 'but/butt'.

never heard of it. I wonder what its origins are.

skramble - that's a very 21st century solution

Jings, Crivvens, and help ma boab! You need a better holiday than that.

I worry about my DS. He spends half his time sitting on an upturned bucket.

Well you have to move with the times don't you, you four eldest really should have their own houses and kids etc. Their never going to get partners being tied to your aprons strings at their age, you have to get tough it is the 21st centuary after all.

Butterball, I think your Wullie is doing just fine - I see him all the time playing footie with Bob, Eck and Soapy.

bends knees

probably about time he moved on from the 'bleached hair and dungarees' look tho