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.

negligees are just horrible. didn't M&S bring out some lovely new thing last winter that was featured on a thread???

back to the lovely cringe making comments - ds (2.11) can be regularly heard announcing at the moment "but mummy I just want to smell the lavendar for a minute"

My great aunts had very flammable housecoats with snuff in the giant pockets.

When I went up to my very large secondary school, I blighted the next five years of my life there by announcing after chips and beans (or whatever) in the canteen, that the 'first course was rather nice'.

Except Her from down the road, portandlemon. I bet She wears a negligee when she's cleaning her step. Shameless.

My son plays outside in his Wendy House pretending it is a cafe and asking if I want a drink. If I say no he gets very earnest and says 'We do lattes!'

My ds is totally poncetastic....

• at the cheese counter in, erm, Waitrose, has said "but mummy can we have some camberzola" (aren't they meant to pester you for dairylea or cheese strings )?

• doesn't play shops, plays 'Waitrose' with his mates

• has turned his nose up at normal chocolate because he likes Green and Blacks best

All my dc ages from pre school upwards love to make and eat sushi, they also love asparagus, garlic king prawns, globe artichokes and snack on mange toute plucked from the (organic)veg patch

I am irredeemably middle class but DS1 (4) has the makings of a proper common oik

1. His favourite shop is Greggs
2. His says "innit" and "gel" for girl
3. He only likes clothes with TV characters logos on them (I fight this tendency by keeping his hair long and forcing him to wear birkenstocks)
4. His favourite meal is "sausage, chips and tomato sauce" and he won't eat anything with even the vaguest whiff of garlic in it. He does love fruit and I make him eat carrots and cucumber by the bucketful to stop him developing scurvy.

I'm irredeemably working class, oh how youse would laugh!! I look like a proper chav, my hoops are the size of planets. I hate Fruit shoots though, and we do have salmon sometimes. And I like herbal tea to the disgust of my chavvy mates.

We also have 2 staffy dogs, who are lovely but go with the image perfectly.

when my mum was 4 years old she caused a feud between my gran and her neighbour mrs williams by asking 'mrs williams, please could you move, you are obscuring my view' whilst gran and mrs w chatted over the fence.

they used to have jam and dripping for a treat, this means they were definitely not mc according to mum

My mother says one of her proudest moment as a mother was when a schools inspector was talking to me about my interests when I was about 8 (my mum was helping out with a performance for the inspection) and I said I liked art, to which he said 'and what sort of art do you like? Drawing with crayons? Cartoons? Painting?' and I replied 'The Pre-Raphaelite Movement'.

When I asked my ds where he wanted to take some friends for his 7th birthday, he thought for a while and said..."how about going to a museum?" His second option was that maybe his friends could watch him play in a football match!! Luckily, I managed to talk him out of both of those ideas.

has anyone nominated this for Classics yet?

The best lines on this thread were both from FioFio: '...perhaps they were all saying houseboats?'

and

'who says woodburning stoves are middle class: you can buy them from Screwfix'

My trying to be posh but definitely not auntie said housecoat for dressing gown.I think its a bit like crooking your little finger when you drink your tea from your bone china cup.
my dgs refers to the garment as his 'gown'what does that say I wonder?

Here's a little snippet of conversation from today.

DD(4 last week) Mum, look at that shoal of birds.
ME That's a good word but birds don't fly in shoals.
DD Oh no, they fly in flocks
ME And you get shoals of...
DD Anchovies!

I brought this topic up in work.....and the majority (in my office) of people with working class roots in a city tended to call the thing you wear over your jammies 'a house coat'. Country folk and MC people from city call it a 'dressing gown'.

I need to get out more!!

When my dd was 3 we parked alongside a factory and she said "Oh look mummy, an oil refinery."

Scorpette LMOA

Housecoat? Housecoat? I refuse to accept that housecoats are middleclass.

Love this thread!! some of the posts have really had me laughing.

I don;t think anyone was saying that housecoat is MC.....more of the opposite, that working class call it house coat and MC call it dressing gown

Re housecoats. What is wrong with you people?

It is a working class thing and I think it only pertains to certain parts of teh UK.

Have we cleared that up now?

To further clarify, it means a dressing gown. A normal dressing gown that you wear over pyjamas, not dsomething you do the housework in. (in this context)