Surrey - Home to Britian's Most Prestigious Professionals and Executives

[PST7777]

Surrey has everything a woman of a certain class could ask for. Surrey is home to the top private primary schools in Britain, beautiful golf and tennis clubs, riding facilities, forests, hills, superb shopping in towns like Guildford, Godalming and Dorking, haute cuisine dining in restaurants for every taste, quick and easy train access to the City, Holborn, Bloomsbury or Harley Street if DH is employed in finance, the bar, academia or medicine. Simply paradise. I couldn't imagine why any woman who has been blessed with bounty could want to reside anywhere else.

No-one British would ever use the term 'I could care less' because it sounds completely nonsensical. Brits adopt all kinds of americanisms but not that one as far as I am aware.

I don't mind posters having a laugh, but I actually think this OP has a bit of a chip on her shoulder and a rather agressive turn of phrase at times.....

or she is just bored............

Maybe the gardener is away?!

"Save the Wales"

I didn't know Wills and Harry were in danger. Hope not, I used to play polo with Harry.

I'm satisfied to realise that this thread is populated with a large number of stupid and paranoid women, just as I suspected. I hope none of you are in the police, because if that was the case you'd arrest a lot of the wrong people. I don't care if you foolishly believe me to be American or foreign for that matter, just because I use an American slang term or Yankee syntax. Think what you will, but I can assure you that you are incorrect with your half-baked assumptions. (...isn't half-baked an Americanism? Ha-ha-ha! 'See it's true, I told you so, I told you so'!). You really should leave the detective work to the professionals, because so many of you would fail at it if you had to do it for your living. Oh well, think what you like, I don't care. I hope this prompts some of you to pile on the Americans and give them a right kicking. They deserve it. Now that I think of it, what about the Canadians? They speak like Americans. And so de Bermudians, and so do Barbadians...and come to think of it, so do many Irish people. Hmmm. A mystery awaits. And I hear that PST7777 is a secret code that unlocks the editors office of the Daily Mail. Hmmmmmmm....

Pleaseeeee....as we used to say on the Army "if you can't take a joke you shouldn't have joined (the thread)"...........lighten up.

Ops, that'll be "in" the Army

Surrey - home to people who can't spell reliably (or Britain)

I was thinking b) but actually a) is starting to look more likely.

Mad.

[gavel]

Well after that contribution I'm gravitating towards a) now.

It could be both a) and b).

So right, OP

OP. Just interested in what you wanted to get out of this thread. I agree Surrey is nice - but what was the point of the thread?

Just marking my place. I'm (just) outside the M25 but not near the hallowed ground of Witley (wherever that may be). Hello to other Weybridge-ish people.

I'm a Celt, and a city girl at heart, so I don't feel I belong here, but it's handy for the airport, and it has more Waitroses per head of population so it's not all bad.

Re Guildford: I worked with a psychiatrist who did a lot of private work there. She said: "those Guildford yummy mummies? Handbags FULL of vomit." Which amused me.

I love this thread. I love it. And I love you, OP, can you write a book please? You remind me of Flora Poste from Cold Comfort Farm.

Surrey does have plenty of rough, or just bland areas though, like all counties. the nice bits are very nice, and very affluent, I'll grant you. But it's not all populated by well-heeled types, not by a long way. Just because lots of people with money live in certain charming bits of it, I am afraid it doesn't really warratn smugness from all the the many ordinary drab people living in the many ordinary drab bits.

I live in the 'dreary dormitary county' of Essex. Poor me. But hang on...I live in a little piece of bucolic paradise, surrounded by other bankers, bond dealers, Old Etonians with land, and horses, and children at top public schools, etc, etc. My neighbours are proper old money and they have a 'shoot' on Boxing Day, when they employ the local poor people to 'beat' for them. It's all very charming and civilised. That can't be right, can it? This is Essex, after all.

But no-one wants to hear about that, do they? Because Essex is naff and horrible, apparently. In the same way that Essex does not necessarily equal Basildon or Dagenham, Surrey does not necessarily equal Dorking or St. Georges Hill. I still love you though, OP. I really really do.

I'm thinking a) most defintely. I live in Surrey and have never come across anyone as rude or ignorant as the OP.

However, thanks for the distraction OP, I sorely needed it this lunchtime :)

Just found this thread. Nomde pointed me in the right direction. Funny.
Mind you I have met PST on other threads So I get her now. I live in Surrey. but obviously not he 'bits' she does. Good job too, I guess.

PST - are you an actor trying to get in role? You are funny.

You have made me laugh!

After reading through many of these postings I'm afraid I am going to go against the grain with the more politically correct responders and state that I do agree with much of what the OP is trying to say, no matter how crude or offensive she may sound to some. Much of Surrey is absolutely lovely! The western areas of the county are especially idyllic for a comfortably well-off upper middle-class family lifestyle. The natural scenery of hills and forests are breathtaking. The high property values and understated elegance of many of the houses attracts only the best sort of people. Being a native of Surrey, I must say I probably am just a little biased, but DH is a native of Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, and he is delighted by the polite reserve one finds in Surrey, rather than the ostentatious display of material wealth one often finds in the bedroom communities north of the Thames. There's no way of getting around certain facts, Surrey is paradise!

I really think the OP is joking

I am moving to Godalming pst. Is there a mosque in the vicinity? DH is a barrister and I am an academic and so will feel right at home with the other prestgious folk. I will be the one wearing the black niqab and Jimmy Choos. Do stop to say hello.

Op, I assume that unless bed bound and incontinent, you still wipe your own arse?

Yes, I thought so ;)