A pretender for the Burchill crown?

[monkeytrousers]

nice of her to put so much effort into it..

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I know I shouldn't but at "the "full-time mother" is a construct of the spoiled and idle of only the past three or four decades. Beyond the rapacious demands of infancy, raising children is not a full-time job, and it never has been."

Typo in heading. blush

Trying not to rise but and anyway. Wonder what started her off on that? The words 'twisted' and 'bitter' spring to mind!

MT - Curious, I can't see the typo you refer to.

Grammatical. Should be pretender to the Burchill crown.

If I'm dissing a writer, I should at least try to get that right!

She's just short of ideas in August, desperately seeking something to write about, and trying to be controversial. Ignore.

Precisely KS, Burchill through and through!

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I read this in this morning's guardian and wanted to scratch her eyes out!

MT

I haven't read any of the posts, but feel obliged to point out to you, that your header is grammatically incorrect.

ROFL

Is she the one on looses women who used to be married to chirs evans? She is Carol someone.

no thats carol mcgiffin (sp?)

Yawn. What a stupid cow. Why do these tedious people insist on talking about SAHMs as if all of them are middle class? Most SAHMs are like most women - a mixture of socio-economic groups. The 4x4 nail-parlour brigade are a minority and as unrepresentative of SAHMs as Nicola Horlick is of WOHMs.

Ah, she's been reading Kate Figes...

Oh no! Carol Sarler and Carol McGiffin mentioned in the same thread - will have to go and lie down with cold flannel on head!

Girrafeski

Norty girl .....................

Go and sit on the naughty step, I am very disappointed, with you, come back when you want to join the adults.

4x4 SAHMs are irritating though

Stay in

Go out

Whatever...................

4x4 ers are annoying

4x4 men as well of course. (No discrimination here! )

I agree they block up our road completely in the mornings - and they either park completely ON the road, so that no-one else can get past (and then get worked up when other mums do the same and they can't get past) or park on the pavement, and rant at other mums who've done the same, beacuse they have to "squeeze" past the cars [rolls eyes]

Carol Sarler, you silly woman.

It wasn't rare for women to drive - it was rare for families to own 2 cars though.

Drive to school - didn't need to - we all went to the local catchment area good state school ( I started infant school in 1960 )

Supermarkets? We had the NAAFI

Ready meals - Vesta curry, anyone?!

I cook from scratch and do all my own cleaning/laundry/decorating like most women still do nowadays

Women did have washing machines, hoovers, fridges, etc in 1960

What is the woman on about - I think she's mistaking 1960 for 1940

my mum didn't have a washing machine or a hoover (had a tiny fridge - but no freezer) in the 1970's!

Exactly, I'm a little confused as to what the difference is in housework terms. Except for the microwave and dishwashwer, most of the stuff she goes on about was available and not that unusual in the sixties. And by that time, washing day happened in a launderette, not with a bloody mangle. Maybe her mother was one of those Bohemians who didn't like this new-fangled stuff?