calling all ponces - whast the MOST poncey activity you ahev ever heard of a kid doing

[CodHun]

i ll suggest my kdis golf lesosn before any other bugger does..

DH did latin and greek at primary school (Ok, it was a boarding prep so not quite the local school )

dd's nursery do wnaky basket sessions for all the under 3's

a local pottery studio does kids' parties - am sorely tempted for when dd is older

Yoga club at nursery

Ds started Chess club but it was full of nerds (seemed to be a large proportion of pfbs. A Pushy Parent Omen in my book)

A private school near us runs elocution lessons for children from 5 years old. That is pretty poncey. They should all speak normal, like wot I do!

horse-riding, piano and recorder playing in school 'band', swimming lessons, french...

am i reasonable in thinking my kids are going to be very poncy?

the most poncy thing i did when i was a kid was getting the Baden-Powell Badge!

foccaccia making in the Tuscan hills.

That is a brilliant piece of ponceing. First class. Dunno wjere Cod is but that is fantastic.

yes - poncetasticano ( Italian pronunciation).

Interpretative dance in response to art.

In desparation in the rain I took DS (5) to an exhibition at tate modern on Sunday. Lots of sculptures hanging from the ceiling like a big origami mobile. DS immediately and completely un-encouraged by me, went into a complicated and intense interpreative dance all around it. people were looking at him and then at me. I have been dreading seeing a thread about poncey arty over-parenting Mums whose children dance in art galleries all week.

I confess I did actually just make that up. About focaccio making in the Tuscan hills I mean. It was only ciabatta ( sob).

I narrowly avoided getting involved in an interpretive dance of the solar system once. The organiser might have been brave/.daft enough to intepret Uranus in dance form in front of 240 teenagers. I was having none of it!

Skiing is pretty poncey too IMO. I met someone the other day who asked me where I skiied. Note 'where' not 'whether'. Thereby forcing me to confess to 2-left-footedness. Having smugly established superiority, he (for it was a he) said "oh you can develop yourself so easily nowadays. My children have had proper lessons since they could walk. You can't just leave them in skischool to flounder ..."

That was vomit worthy I thought.

agree - Q

skiing is very poncy!!

[ControlFreaky: Me, Latin and Greek at Oxford. Actually the degree was called 'Literae Humaniores' which is the most poncetastic degree title possible. When I left I could translate the speeches of Churchill into Latin in the style of Cicero and comment on textual inconsistencies in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. I'd now be hard pressed to stumble through Book 1 of the Cambridge Latin Course. "Caecilius est in horto." Happy days and you can relive it all here www.cambridgescp.com/page.php?p=clc^oa_book1^stage1.]

snort at MB

Quattrocento: no no no, skying is not poncey anymore. Anyone can do it, thanks to the easy carving skis now on sale all over the world (you can answer that it's getting too easy, that the skyslopes are busier than oxford street on a saturday, etc etc)
[issy at translating churchill into latin. People from my high school used to participate to a "certamen" (can't remember which) where they had to translate from ancient greek into latin ]

If my DD gets into her preschool she'll be doing yoga lessons at about 2 yrs old. Is that poncey enough for you?

Oh and she'll also have music/dance and drama lessons.

Is this working for you??

Issy: I see your Cambridge Latin Course, and I raise you a Revised Latin Primer and a copy of Coulbourn's Latin Sentence and Idiom, both of which tumbled out of one our house-moving boxes yesterday. The cover of the Coulborn had, like all the others in the class iirc, been amended to read 'Eating Sentence and Idiom'.

Frogs: I can recommend the online CLC as a particularly fine way to while away a dull conference call! I know I used to translate into Ancient Greek, certainly in the first part of my degree, but that seems so unfeasible now I refuse to believe it.

ds3 does yoga!!!!!! (at nursey)

just realized my dc don't do anything poncey. They actually might be underachievers. I'm going to make some latin flash cards.

мой dd будет изучать русский язык коротко, таким образом она может жениться на богатом русском, и мы можем жить счастливо с тех пор во дворце в Челси.

oh dear. that was supposed to be Russian. But I now propose it is a secret geeky computer language learnt by my overacheiving daughter and only used by the truly gifted.

playing the violin - at 2.

Gingermonkey, how long did it take you to typle all taht ?