I thought Harrogate was lovely in a middle class way.

It’s lovely in a ‘it’s still Yorkshire, so lock the car doors and get out of there as soon as possible’ way 😉

Chicken and bacon club sandwich on a yorkshire cobble, a sausage roll, and a fruit flan.

Ilkley, as in Yorkshire?
‘middle class’ and ‘Yorkshire’ are surely mutually exclusive.

Exactly,

I was discussing this at ones Polo club a week last friday, I think we need to put a cap on the lower “middle class” and god forbid the the “working class” moving into North Yorkshire.

I already employ a few to clean ones stables, what else can they do??

It’s lovely in a ‘it’s still Yorkshire, so lock the car doors and get out of there as soon as possible’ way

Darling, Please don’t mix up South and West Yorkshire with North Yorkshire.

Sorry. Is it a ‘number of extra toes’ thing?

I had a colonic irrigation in Harrogate.

And where did you first see the grotty seedy underbelly, Elf?

Probbly the first time my mum took me out in my pram when I was a tiny baby.

My first act of agression was again in my pram, when I apparently scowled and clenched my little fist at someone looking into the pram and gurgling at me. Never had any time for idiots. 😆

It mightuv bin wind, mind. There’s always that possibility…

Let’s see:

Reads Rouler – check
Sniffs at the Paul Smith Jeans line as being a bit plebby – check
Prep + Public school – check
Durham University – check
Ex-Hockey player (for Alderley Edge in Cheshire) – check
Lawyer – check
Waitrose shopper – check
Off to buy new Hunters at the w/e – check

Oh, and daughter is called Beatrice – check!

MrsBouys familiy own a farm in Harrogate. I goes there regularlylike, it’s excellent for bikeridin..chillin, eating.. So do I have a “place in the country” that I can claim too, considering I have a place on the coast and a place in That London.. What does that make me now, tosser excepted.
I’ve seen more “non” offroad 4×4 bores there than in Than London, so too them there masser sportscars and, really, Audi’s so common you’d think there was a discount store selling them.
Met a decent set of walker types in the Bell t’other week, on a bit of a get together they were, nicest bunch of lads one could ever meet.. FWiW

Don’t go to Bettys though, go out to Harlow Carr Gardens where the crowds are far more gentele and not so pushy.

I hear their coffee is actually rather good.
Lol.. I suspect if you went in there and asked for a ‘long black’ your response would be a snigger and they’d ask ‘a long black what?’

No its just coffee, in a ‘coffee top trumps is so last year’ kind of way.

Durham University – check
The University of Durham, I think you’ll find.

Pretty sure their rowing team was DUBC

Yes, DU http://www.dur.ac.uk/

How times change. Sad to see one’s alma mater downgrading.

Currently wearing brogues and a knitted tie – check
Ridiculous floppy haircut – check
In a choir – check
Works in the media AND for a charity – check

The University of Durham, I think you’ll find.

Quite so, but I wanted to be all down with the red brick and ex-poly types….

In 2005, the University unveiled a re-branded logotype and introduced the trading name of Durham University. However, the official name of the institution remains the University of Durham and the official coat of arms is unchanged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_University

Mind you even discussing this is terribly middleclass 😉

Ah, the japes we used to have with the old PCAS form, eh? ‘I only need two Ds to get into Oxford’, and so on. Small boys, jumpers for goalposts, education from a place that used to be a squash club.

Too young (just) for PCAS and UCCA.

UCCA/PCAS – I did both IIRC – applied two years running. Didn’t get into Cambridge first time, got good grades was suggested I reapply. Still didn’t get in 🙂 Went to Bristol with all the other Oxbridge rejects 😀

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Let’s see:

Reads Rouler – check
Sniffs at the Paul Smith Jeans line as being a bit plebby – check
Prep + Public school – check
Durham University – check
Ex-Hockey player (for Alderley Edge in Cheshire) – check
Lawyer – check
Waitrose shopper – check
Off to buy new Hunters at the w/e – check

Oh, and daughter is called Beatrice – check!

Bingo!

OMITN is a slightly lesser version of me 🙂

Reads The Ride – check
Prep + Public school – check
University of Cambridge – check
Ex-Hockey player (for West Hampstead Hockey Club, North London) – check
Chartered Surveyor – check
Waitrose shopper – check
Bought Dubarrys for mrs S last birthday – check

So lots of self confessed middle class here it seems. But it’s a wide group these days. Are you on the way up or down? How are your table manners? Do you cut your bread roll with a knife? Do you use a toilet or a loo? Eat pudding or dessert?

Edit – typo noticed

..and many other questions, such as do you know whether it’s ‘roll’ or ‘role’ for the bread thing?

Do you cut your bread role with a knife?

*knows the difference between role and roll and is prepared to point it out on stw, being both a pedant and middle class*

😉

Off to buy new Hunters at the w/e – check

The truly middle class get the au pair to collect them in the XC-90,dahling… 😉

EDIT: And for the record, if they’re not Le Chameau’s, they cannot be regarded as truly utilitarian footwear..

Sorry, Hunters are Chav now. An ex security guard turned up at work with a pair on earlier in the year, he left the tags on ‘so everyone knows they ain’t fake’

I went to a better university than Stoner. 😈

This is the Noteeth family crest.

Finally (and poshest of all), I am living in destitution. You can’t buy that – indeed, it would be vulgar to do so. 8)

the Noteeth family crest

‘nobodyorlegs’, surely?

I went to a better university than Stoner.
Not difficult 😉

Aren’t we pushing on upper class now? Anyone in Burke’s Peerage?

not being able to spell is not the same as a typo…..

The Duchess of Kent is an old family friend

The only time I wear Howies is for slobbing around at home (Well the only Howies item I have is a big thick cardigan)

Aren’t we pushing on upper class now? Anyone in Burke’s Peerage?

I get the impression that what we’re seeing now is the same as middle class folk saying they’re working class.

Anyone have to warm the toilet seat for callmeDave at Eton?

‘nobodyorlegs’, surely?

Ha! I want to incorporate dentures into it. But, you know, tradition and stuff.

It mightuv bin wind, mind.

Good to know that some things don’t change.

not being able to spell is not the same as a typo…..

It only happens when I type. You might want to correct your ellipsis though.

It’s lavatory isn’t it not toilet. Sitting room not lounge and pudding not dessert.

Anyway Jocasta and Flavia are coming round for some organically grown hot lava java. Jocasta is bringing her energist and were going to have a sage burning and decide which crystals will help us walk perpetually in ‘love and light’.

Humphrey and pongo are popping over tonight and we might raid the fridge for tuck. If the maid has finished cleaning the aga…..

It’s lavatory isn’t it not toilet. Sitting room not lounge and pudding not dessert.

A point to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English