Poor SIL, apparently she has notions

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SIL has spent the last 18 months building a gorgeous mansion house on family land in the rural Midlands (of Ireland, for those who don't realise they've clicked on a Craicnet thread). She has decided she wants people to use her actual front door rather than coming round the back of the house and in through the utility room. It's like the barely healed civil war wounds have been hacked open. As a Dub without a back door fetish (get your mind out of the gutter), I fully support her front door notions. Dh is horrified. MIL is mortified and wondering what the neighbours will think. It's all great craic.

@user050105 Red headed twins! What's not to love 😍

That is quite odd, maybe it's a regional/ province thing? We're from rural Leinster and I never met anyone local who would use a front door. The one person I knew from up north (Louth) is a recidivist front door user, but she's a nun so I think she might have notions about her place in society.

Yeah, it being area-dependant makes sense.

Middle Welsh farming family and definitely the front door remains resolutely shut. I assume this is a bit like having a living room for best? Where the vicar apparently was given a cup of tea if he visited. Didn't happen in my lifetime but mum had me late...

My grandmother had notions. She used the back door but her steady stream of guests used the front and then signed the guest book that lay on an antique reproduction table.