to want to throw up all over this self-satisfied pair?

[gramercy]

www.pedlars.co.uk/this-is-us.html

[AbsOfCroissant]

Do you know who would? MPs. I bet they got TONS of orders from our illustrious politicians before the expenses scandal hit.

[seeker]

[diddl]

I love the look of the Castle, but what´s with the cräppy chairs in the Hall?

[gramercy]

Now I'm feeling ill after having looked at that Rugby School magazine. How many schools have got a roving reporter called Freddie fforde who visits racehorse trainers?!!!

[kickassangel]

97.50 for a cushion!!!!

No wonder they can have so many houses.

They must have 'other income' as well, though. With a name like 'Gladstone', could it be inherited wealth?

[LadyBiscuit]

kickassangel - did you not see the link from Peerage further down the thread? Landed gentry

seeker - I am slightly disappointed in you. But I am desperate to know what you have done with a flagpole

[MilaMae]

£7.95 for a single melamine plate!!!!!!!!!!!

[gramercy]

I don't care about the silly overpriced tat they're selling, but I find the smugness of the website quite an emetic.

How can you pose there, quite without irony, and basically brag about your many homes, many children and even, in one of those newspaper article links, about how much more snow you have than anyone else?

You have to think (hope) that pride comes before a fall.

[JackSpratt]

I'm achewerly thinking seriously about renting that castle.

But the throws are putting me orf.

[HerHonesty]

do you think they actually make money, or is it just for fun? their monday hobby? I pity the poor girl who has to run the website and make up the drivel when the mrs gets bored/goes skiing.

tbh, lots of these businesses arent truly going concerns, once you factor in the free rent (how handy to have stables lying around) and probably interest free capital. oh and the fact they probably have lots of terribly lovely pr luvvies doing their pr for next to nothing. and free stalls at various polo/point to point type events.

[BadGardener]

yes Seeker, I think we should be told what you're flying from your pole.
Mumsnetters have a right to know!

[nikki1978]

Quote from the Guardian article "But the clutter has to be organised. Everything on display has a story or some personal history." Even potentially mundane things, such as pencils, look interesting if they're well arranged, he says. "And anything - a postcard, a note or a ticket - can be framed. We lean them on mantelpieces or shelves so we can move them around."

Wankers.

[KnottyLocks]

Sounds just like my mantlepices: I have many artful arrangment of pencils, post-it notes,cards and 'vintage' batteries on mine.

Am obviously on trend as my clutter is organised...into piles.

[YanknCock]

Right then, I'm off to frame my latest Tesco receipt and artfully arrange some cheap biros around it

[TiggyR]

I looked at their website about a year or so agao and thought WTF?

See that black art deco 'France' sign over their fireplace? I got one of those (proper original stuff) saying EXIT from a boot fair for seven, yes, seven of your English pounds. I felt smug, I can tell you. Almost as smug as lovely Caroline. And the child's retro school desk and chair set for £175 I have a much better one that cost 15 quid from a charity shop.

I think the point is, they don't actually need to sell anything, do they? It's like playing shopkeepers when you're little - just fantasy. Bless them.

[seeker]

They don't sell them any more but it's like this. It's red and very wonderful. We put it upnext to our tipi. Honestly. But we do not have children named after the countries they were conceived in - which is really the only excuse for Mali - or a daughter called Fred because we are so quirky and individual.

[missmoopy]

I don't mind them selling shite at over inflated prices. I DO mind them telling us about their affluence in such patronising and smug, self congratulatory tones. Bleur!

[SixtyFootDoll]

'This kind of site magically turns me into some sort of ranting communist, I must stop looking.'
YanknCock that made me laugh!!

[MmeLindt]

The castle is in Fettercairn. Do you know where Fettercairn is?

There is only MAMBA around there.

I don't think I would spend £3grand on a holiday where the highlight of the week was a walk to the Ramsay Arms. (nothing against the Ramsay Arms in Fettercairn if there are Fettercairners lurking)

[BadGardener]

Seeker we'll let you off. Despite the tipi.

[YummyMam]

Aargh! The Hawarden Estate Farm Shop is one of my favourite places (for the food, not the overpriced kitchen tat). I am never going to be able to view it in the same way again...

[LittleSilver]

Jolly D of them to tell us all about it I say.

[LadyBiscuit]

What is MAMBA MmeLindt?

I approve of your flag seeker

[MrsPixie]

What a bunch of utter cunts, PMSL at their lifestyle concept