Oh dear, I am irredeemably middle class...

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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.

LOL at Foff. DP would love to have children who said that.

hee hee - we have created monsters!

I was in Morrisons the other day with my mother and dc (after ds1 initially baulked and said "can't we go to MarkieSpencer instead?" (which he prefers because it is next to Starbucks)).

I asked my mother to get some milk off the shelf and he shouted at her "No nana!!!, it has to be the skimmed and organic one!!!!!"

wittering- I am pmsl at 'foff' but you should know it's pronounced "Jer-Hotee" - that is ultimate poncoid.

Yesterday afternoon we emerged into the bright sunshine from an orthoptist's appointment and DD asked whether we could "go to a café now - one with an awning"

EPPM NO! Really?? Who knew?

(apart from you, and possibly your DCs, that is).

I shall improve my ponce rating enormously with that factoid.

Oh Christ the shame! I'm never going back to that Pizza Express. Do you think they heard? Was that drop-dead gorgeous Italian waiter laughing at DS's ancient Egyptian inauthenticity?

Wittering

We moved from Edinburgh to Cumbernauld (Scottish equivalent of Corby or Telford) when I was four. I introduced myself to the local urchins at the playpark with the following line "Would you like to come to my home for a coffee?".
Thirty five years on I overheard DS2 attempting to chat to a small girl at our local park, he was heard to say "We have two types of bamboo in our garden".
Despite marrying men from working class backgrounds, the women in my family obviously carry a very dominant, middle-class (poncetastic)gene.

DS2 asked a couple of years back whether we could have one dinner a week where we only spoke Latin.

tis true, I promise!
Wittering you are very funny....

Swedes, I have a friend whose mother insisted that they all spoke French at the dinner table, as she thought it would pull em up by their bootstraps. She didn't let the fact that she couldn't actually speak French stand in her way. I like that can-do attitude.

2 types of bamboo, love it!!

Who moved my chocolate, you have just taken me back in time...

DH came back from 'working' in Hawaii and bestowed the most wonderful gift to me of two comfortable muumuu tents housecoats...

4.bp.blogspot.com/_YAZd3qM6to4/ScjvQc2Qd1I/AAAAAAAABe0/0LjJxFbsk_0/s400/muumuu2

Time for a crash diet, methinks!

I'm going to brazen it out at Pizza Express with loud talk of DS's very rare speech impediment (common among gifted children) which causes him to mispronouce 'Jer-h' and 'tee' as 'ff'.

at foff/thoth/jerhotee

I remember working in a junior school when one morning, in assembly, the teacher produced a Waitrose carrier bag full of props. There was a wave of "Ooooohhhh.....Waitrose!" and nods of approval from the DC's who were obviously impressed with the teacher's supermarket of choice!

. We don't have Waitrose in Scotland (sigh) aside from two stores in Edinburgh, so whenever we see an Ocado van on the m-way, DP and I chant 'Ahhh, Ocado', in a Homer Simpson 'Ahh, donuts' manner.

I dream of the day...

You think you have problems my ds (15).Looked at his newly painted room and said Is it farrow and ball? cheeky bugger

My dd (5 months) has recently taken to examining the labels on her clothes and toys with a critical frown; with the air of 'But, Mummy, this doesn't appear to be 100% organic cotton'.

My friend's 2yo old dd has an imaginary friend called "Peter Jones"

As in Dragon's Den, MrsS (aspirational)
or
as in Sloane Square (arrived)?

Hugo and Quentin love going to the park to do some working class children finger pointing oops painting

Threads like these depress me. They aren't to do with class, they are to do with money and snobbery.

What's the difference, lou? Social class in the English sense of the word is all about money and snobbery!

Oh as in Sloane Square most definitely