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right then...what is a lentil weaver? Your thoughts please

224 replies

Fillyjonk · 27/01/2007 16:52

Do you need to fondle crystals

or it is enough to just be obsessive about good nutrition?

is there a particular dress code?

is it inconsistant with a reasonable appreciation of science?

thoughts please

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lissielou · 27/01/2007 17:26

barbara from the good life was a lentil weaver.

posh spice is def the opp

filthymindedvixen · 27/01/2007 17:29

definitely degrees of affliction. For example, give yourself extra points if you:
Use homeopathic remedies instead of just reaching for the Nurofen;
Use a Mooncup
Plant by the phases of the moon
have never taken your kids to Macdonalds
Make your own herbal teas and remedies
Know what a Wnaky basket is - and have one

sorkycake · 27/01/2007 17:29

Ooh I'm well on the way to lentildom then.

lissielou · 27/01/2007 17:30

and walk around your orchard naked... when you have company!

sorkycake · 27/01/2007 17:32

I wish!
If I had an orchard I'd happily wander round it naked, surely one of the perks.
I disagree with the mooncup, I think you're supposed to be permanently pg, no?

lissielou · 27/01/2007 17:37

yes, vv important. and labour can never ever hurt. not even a tiny bit. and all human waste is put straight into aforesaid orchard

sorkycake · 27/01/2007 17:39

What do you do with the placenta if you don't have an orchard? Just I know the m/w will ask again and I'd like to be ready for the question this time?

Mercy · 27/01/2007 17:40

Never mind mooncups, what about washable sanitary pads and using the water they have been soaked in (aka 'menstrual stock') to water your plants?

(and it's not a joke or a piss take - the MN poster who does this is lovely!) And may not even consider herself a lentil weaver.

The names Spidermama and Moondog also spring to mind.

lissielou · 27/01/2007 17:40

get a peace lily from asda only £1.99

lissielou · 27/01/2007 17:45

i wasnt being sarky sork

lulumama · 27/01/2007 17:46

if you were a true lentil weaver, you;d do this with the placenta! Wink

Mercy · 27/01/2007 17:47

Actually , that's a good point you made. I can think of a number of 'lentil weavers' who are so, simply through financial necessity.

Still astounds me that things like having an allotments, buying clothes from charity shops, beach huts, camping etc have been appropriated by the 'middle-classes' as the thing to do.

Some aspects are good, some aren't.

lissielou · 27/01/2007 17:48

ick ick ick

Blandmum · 27/01/2007 17:50

Mercy, is there, do you think, a difference in doing things because you have to/want to, and doing things because you are earnest/worthy and about them?

lissielou · 27/01/2007 17:51

no, but there is a difference between believing in what you do and doing it so you can discuss it at dinner parties and ACT worthy

Blandmum · 27/01/2007 17:52

That was sort of what I meant, you put it better than I did.

filthymindedvixen · 27/01/2007 17:55

Mercy, I know. Like my terribly well-off friend who buys 'scraps' of material for her rag-rug making hobby ??

lissielou · 27/01/2007 18:00

i genuinely believe in alternative therapies, i believe that the weather affects my mood, but whereas people used to buy fresh food from the markets (my gramps had an allotment over 15y ago) now eating healthily costs 4 times as much so it has become a hobby for the upper-middle classes. not all, but def some

sorkycake · 27/01/2007 18:01

I didn't take offence at all!
I honestly wondered whether it was a lifestyle choice or a socio-economic necessity. I'd still love an orchard, my mother has one and I'm dead jealous.
The placenta question is an honest one tho' what do you do with it? I've asked on a separate thread, so if anyone has any suggestions please feel free.
Lulumama I actually felt sick when I scrolled down to the wedding pic, so the carting of the placenta has made my heartburn lurch.
What a picture to come across when you're older and flitting through snaps of when you were little, with the girlfriend eh?

HelenWheels · 27/01/2007 18:01

"Menstrual Stock"? Ye gods and little fishes ...

Cloudhopper · 27/01/2007 18:14

Isn't a lot of this due to the 'downwardly mobile' nature of being middle class these days?

Many middle class people have had a sort of "Modern Parents" pseudo-hippy upbringing, and actually don't have a lot of money anyway, especially when they give up work when the children are small.

So actually they are just applying the values they were brought up to their lack of wealth. But in a hobby sort of way - it is the Good Life 30 years on.

I make clothes for the girls but only because I enjoy it. Likewise the allotment thing - but allotments were just lying fallow before it became fashionable again. The working classes had abandoned them before the middle classes took them up.

Do I sound touchy?

lissielou · 27/01/2007 18:17

see i think it became too expensive for the working classes. a bag of potatoes costs more than a box of waffles

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Fillyjonk · 27/01/2007 18:20

oh feck almightly I came back to devise a quiz involving rooboisch tea and you are all talking of Serious Issues

ok I am a lentil weaver cos I am a pretentious ponce. Anyone else?

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filthymindedvixen · 27/01/2007 18:21

I have an allotment and I'm very grateful for it as I can't afford much organic fruit nd veg, I have a tiny garden and I don't like 'organised' exercise
Interestingly, when I started 7 years ago I was the only female under 60. Now it's 50/50 elderly retired and mums. None of whom (except for 5 or 6 of the old guys) live on the estate the allotments were originally provided for...

filthymindedvixen · 27/01/2007 18:22

filly bring on your quiz! I reckon I'll be around 65pc LW