A DIY Guide to the Middle-Classes
I wonder sometimes what I am. I have lived the last decade on an inner city council estate, amid Oxford academia, in a remote country town and in London suburbia. In the first we were, with our relentless consonants and sagging bookshelves, regarded as aristocrats. In the second, as the 'squeezed middle'. In the third, as city sophisticates and now, sometimes, isolated in my tweed amid the Ralph Lauren and the hoodies, I feel myself a bumpkin. Class should no longer matter. Nowadays, for most of us, it's more a question of perception than birth. But the perception matters. My daughter battles to adjust speech, habits and dress to blend in with each new environment; the political parties compete to woo the amorphous throng they deem Middle England and Melvyn Bragg has started a television series on class and culture. The British, he decides, no longer define themselves by class, but by the music they listen to, the books they read. I listen to Dolly Parton and Beethoven....
Bauble bauble water olympics
ReplyDeleteBloody bubble gum....
ReplyDeleteA middle aged matron tries desperately to keep her children clean until the Bishop comes to tea.
ReplyDeleteThe water rose up so much it surrounded them and looked like a ball
ReplyDeleteThat should keep the kids occupied for a while, now time for a coffee and a chocolate.
ReplyDeleteAnna feared she may have made the bubble bath mixture a little too strong.
ReplyDeleteAt last the children were contained and couldn't get into any mischief... ah time for a sit down... every house should have one of these!
ReplyDeleteLets see how they get out of this one then! Now, where's my coffee?
ReplyDeleteYou can't wrap them up in cotton wool - but you can put them in a giant bubble!
ReplyDeleteWe are in a bit of a bubble at the moment. Don't burst it.
ReplyDeletemum we got to get one of these for the garden!
ReplyDeleteWho said only Jesus could walk on water?
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely pair!
ReplyDeleteBut these baubles proved too big for the Christmas tree
Give them a shake and see if it snows
ReplyDeleteThe vicar's balls were really rather large.
ReplyDeletemammy not wanted us to get wet went to extremes
ReplyDeleteThe pack did say 'Giant Bubbles'!
ReplyDeleteOK, which one of you farted in the bath?
ReplyDeleteThe kids were off in their own bubble again! This always happened when Mum shouted to tidy up!
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