say somethign poncy about yourself - go on

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the day we were in Naas it was cold and raining hard and i was just surprised because there didnt appear to be any other big towny shops. In fact i dont even remember seeing a Dunnes . That said, i dont suppose we were up for really looking.

I don't think any of these are particularly poncey in the realm of Mumsnet but here goes...

I won't allow certain words of French origin in my house.

I buy food often based on its packaging and how poncey it will look in my cupboard/on the kitchen table, especially when we have guests.

I won't buy my dds clothes with slogans, fluffy animals or Mickey Mouse on them. I also draw the line at lemon yellow and peach.

I will only eat eggs that my chickens have laid and I will go for the vegetarian option in restaurants unless I know the meat is local and free range (and preferably organic).

My children are are only allowed BBC due to the frightful adverts on the other channels.

I listen to Radio 4 and get excited about their forthcoming features.

I refuse to wear any perfume you can buy at Boots (apart from Chanel's Allure Sensuale which DH brought back for me from Chamonix earkier this month).

badger has sent me here as I mentioned bunting on another thread

I have Tibetan prayer flags hanging in my garden.I also have a Cath kidson gazebo!

That's a coincidence tiranog! I was just admiring the Cath Kidston gazebo while reading the new catalogue on the, ahem, lav.

Am very as was also fantasising about putting one up in my garden this summer and hanging tea lights in jam jars around it.

LadyM - I'm very curious about which words of French origin you won't allow!!! Can you type them?

LadyM-the lit jam jars is a lovely idea,I shall try that.

I have bunting!
(i make my own.... with the kids)

We have bunting on our allotment too - made from coloured carrier bags. I should shut up now, shouldn't I?

link to gazebo, please

I want bunting .

I have been to a raclette party. Does that count? (With real raclette cheese. In France. With French people.)

I told my children that the TV was broken and wouldn't receive cITV any more because I couldn't stand the crapulous programmes and constant adverts any more.

dh thinks i'm a complete snob because our upbringings were so very different. i grew up with my grandparents who can only be described as uber ponces. but i loved it.

all breakfast items are presented on the table in table ware, not the packets/containers they were bought in, this includes..milk, butter, cereals, jams, juice etc.

breakfast table is laid out properly with breakfast cutlery and crockery, a specific breakfast table cloth and matching napkins.

toast is presented in a toast rack.

there are specific cutlery items to deal with specifc breakfast fruits. grapefruit for example comes in a grapefruit bowl (has spikes in the bottom to hold it) with a grapfruit spoon.

my dh on the other hand...thinks if you eat a croissant you are a ponce, more so if you pronounce it properly rather than calling it a crassont.

bosscat, we got Raclette from Lidl just before Christmas. Is that un-poncey because it is Lidl?

Fellow poncers...

PA the words are the usual - you know: lounge, toilet, dessert, serviette etc. The kinds that many people think are posh but aren't.

That was hard work typing them.

And. breathe...

Nailpolish the link to the gazebo is here . But this picture on the www does it no justice - you should see it in the catalogue all gloriously set up in English country garden at night time. Ooooo. Suits you.

bosscat can I just say they sell raclette in waitrose

Do you have a pierrade too?

ta lady mac, that is lovely

CAMy, I live in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere but can get to J11 in about 5 mins in a hurry (once forgot my passport so had to rush back), or at least I could till they decided to dig up the road on the way to Hythe. Makes Waitrose a pain to get to at the moment

Raclette's resemble medieval torture devices.

Shiver

I won't have any Disney Winnie-the-Pooh themed stuff for my baby. Sacrilege.

Strictly E.H. Shepherd only (if at all).

Ponce factor... 7?

no winnie the pooh here either.

In Germany 'raclette' is a little table stove/grill thing with individual mini-shovels on which you put pieces of cheese, meat, vegetables and then put them under the grill.

Nothing Disney-themed crosses our threashold either. A student of mine (trainee teachers) did a mock English lesson on a Disney theme and I wrote in her assessment that I didn't think it was appropriate for school.

threshold

My children now tell DH off for calling the meal in the middle of the day dinner (yessss!) and even talk about using napkins in MaccieDs!!

How poncey is using old family silver everyday? Actually that's my parents so doesn't really count. I think I've let the poncey-side down a bit since I married DH...

Actually I think that ponce may be middle-class - my parents weren't really that. Mum used to pick me up from school in wellies and an old anorak...but we ate off antique plates and were organic by default as everything was homegrown. I reckon my mil had ponce-tendencies - I remember she lusted after grape scissors once...DH and I laughed at her...

Think you may be right OrmIrian. Some things on this thread aren't ponce - they're old-money-why-would-we-behave-any-other-way.

I'd like to think that mine have been self-conciously pretentious enough to fit the ponce category quite comfortably. My background is middle of the middle.