Oh dear, I am irredeemably middle class...

[midnightexpress]

DS1 (3)already refers to all play car parks as 'The John Lewis car park'. When we are out, if he smells a bonfire or smoke from a chimney, he now declares loudly 'Mummy, I can smell a wood-burning stove'.

Bless im.

not sure what your point is someguy - are you really trying to educate me in the obvious - fresh food is best?

Grimma, I'll see you and raise you a smoking jacket.

Oh no, not salmon, you've not been reading the salmon-crawling-with-lice-and-stuffed-with-chemicals thread.

Unless she specified 'wild Alaskan salmon'. Then it would be ok. Extra bonus points for referring to it as 'sockeye'.

She would go every week though if I let her!

My dds, going past a building site aged 5 and 4 - "Oh look, an archaeological dig!".

I'm with midnightexpress on what a housecoat is though. I have never heard a dressing gown called a housecoat. Are you sure that's a class thing not just some weird local custom?

custardo, I was responding to hf's "What is actually wrong with a ready made meal?" post.

I have to tell you that MidnightE brought Jaffa Cakes to my house last week...... and Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers. Luckily her sons didn't dribble chocolate down their ruffled blouses and velvet pantaloons.

Housecoat is socially anxious.

Swedes. They just nick cars.

I also wear a housecoat - got that from my non-posh Scottish granny

I offered my friend's little girl some milk. She looked at it for a minute then asked: 'Is it organic?'

Jaffa cakes are quite middle class I would think. They have dark chocolate on them, rather than the far more plebeian milk chocolate.

Something like Wagon Wheels would be less middle class I think. Or maybe Jammie Dodgers

Every time we go into town DS demands in his usual foghorn voice - 'Mummy can we go to the cafe for Carrot cake?' - he has never been to MacD's (yet) but that can be blamed on vegetarianism...

Wagon Wheels aren't what they were. Neither are Curly Wurlys. Sigh...

When we got back from Waitrose a couple of days ago dd (23 months) ignored all the other shopping and instead opened the super-ripe Camembert box, unwrapped it and was carrying it around saying 'cheez'. I put it on a cracker for her and she just licked the cheese off and left the cracker.

Midnight, don't be silly. An MC child would be horrified at the notion of a 'smoking jacket'.

(unless they thought it had something to do with woodburning stoves, I suppose)

Ready meals (bought from the right shop with no preservatives etc) are an excellent time saver and are very healthy.

And, yes I am very posh.

I'm with midnight express on the housecoat vs. dressing gown debate. I'm sure a housecoat is something that 1950s women wore to protect their clothes whilst cleaning; although I am sure Cath Kidston must stock similar .

Nowt wrong with ready meals either (provided purchased from M&S or small local, independent caterers lol) - they are a lifesaver for dh and I midweek.

I posted this before, but DS2 once said something that made me feel irredeemably non-MC:

"Mum, why is it that on television people always hold little plates underneath their cups of tea?"

I had completely forgotten about the word housecoat, but now that it has resurfaced I remember, in the early 1970s, that one or two of our elderly (probably 60s at the time) using this word for something they wore around the house before getting properly dressed in the morning.

My SIL does treat her dressing gown like a housecoat - that is, a coat that you wear in the house. If she's cold she won't put on a jumper, she'll put her dressing gown on over the top of her clothes.

She still calls it a dressing gown though.

Actually, where I'm from, housecoat and dressing gown are 2 different things.

A dressing gown is what you wear over your nightie, usually thick towelling material with a belt that you tie in a knot.

A housecoat is what you wear during the day, over your 'good' clothes, it is light material and has a couple of pockets one at wither side or one huge pocket the length of the front. It is normally a hideous floral pattern. It buttons all the way down the front.

wither? either, obviously!