Yuppies/posh people in Manchester

[Mini]

I totally know what you mean. Manchester is a wannabe London now. All seems a bit pretentious.


Depends where you drink though.

 
That sums it up well, if you drink in the Trevor, you still get a taste of proper Manchester, drink in the Jockey its a whole other ball game! You could be forgiven for thinking you are in a gastro pub in Wimbledon or something.
 
Not saying I don't like the Jockey on the Green, great for Sunday lunch and taking the little one. I just rember how it used to be, it was such a laugh (not for the residents obviously) getting drunk on the green on a Saturday night, and generally having a good time. All seems so sanitised and 'grown up' now, far cry from how it used to be.
But again, I know the Jockey had to change, it wasn't doing well, and rather than it close altogether its best something good has been done with it.
maybe I'm just mourning the passing of my idiotic drunken youth? LOL!!

[Mini]

Just wanted to apologise, one of my posts has no gaps, I did try and put spaces in after I posted using the modify option, but my laptop is being a pig and it wouldn't load etc, so its had to stay the way it is, sorry if it looks a mess of info and pretty tough to read because of that.
 

[julie]

Hey I live in maidstone and have a very broad Mancaccent complete with a Bury brogue so I sound not unlike Victoria Wood Now maidstone aint posh but their history is completeley different from the north and I am the newcomer but they accept me and laugh at my vowels You have to be confident in who you are. Me? I'm damn proud of my heritage my family have come from Bury since the 1500's, I miss places like Deansgate though at Christmas. Love love Deansgate and some of the old Ginnels in Manchester,leading to who knows where perhaps an old derelict mill(I"d imagine what it was like when the mill was working full on" or houses ready for demolishon(who lived in those houses? there was always something interesting to find of the beaten track Then there was Rosenthals where I got my school uniform Its not about what you are but who you are.

[Cupcake]

Cupcake, already I think you are wonderful! 

  I'm liking you too - clearly a woman of excellent taste and refinement!! 
 
I feel sorry for the clique we have round here.  They've obviously stretched themselves to get the posh postcode, and they are struggling to maintain the front.  Terrified they'll get found out and dropped by the rest of the club.  It must be a horrible way to live.  The saddest thing is that the rest of us are perfectly friendly, nice people who'd make them welcome even if they DID shop at Lidl instead of Sainsbury's, cos we don't care about daft things like that.
 
Of course, I am a bad wicked person and can also frequently be found laughing up my sleeve because some social climber who has blatantly treated me as a scruffy peasant beneath their interest has just found out that actually, my name opens a lot of posh doors round here..... 

[sheilanz]

Wish I had a few posh doors to open Cupcake mine are nearly
all in the same pocket state as I am, however some people still envy the little we have,  oh ok ok its not a small little
but we all worked for what we have.........
Am sure you would be able to open some doors here if
you wanted to with your baking skills
btw I have never made a banana cake

[Cupcake]

There are a lot of posh doors round here, Sheila, but behind most of them you'll find very nice people who have made their own way from scratch and have no delusions of grandeur.  Lymm may be town-sized, but it thinks like a village, and status here isn't something you can buy or just award yourself.  It's about family and community as much as money.  What the pretentious incomers never understand is that there are families here who have never had a spare fiver in generations, but they are good, decent people who are highly regarded and respected.  So when someone sweeps in and sneers down at them, the whole community takes offence.  For years in some cases! 

I always hated banana bread and banana cake, cos most are damp and bland, but the one I posted is actually really nice.  My nephew likes it with banana jam and vanilla ice cream.  It gets made for him quite a lot because I really don't like ripe bananas.  I like them palest yellow.  Once they get freckles, it's bake em or bin em!       

[Mini]

Good morning Cupcake, Sheila, and Julie


sorry for my delayed response, I think I turned off the email notify thingy? Anyway I'm so techless its not funny, I don't know what I did, but I stopped getting emails......lol, I'll not even try and recall what I did!


I agree Cupcake, there is a huge pretense and persona thing going on around here too. Its very sad. Maybe its just a natural shift that was happening anyway, and because I was busy being a young tearaway I never noticed it?  Maybe its an age thing, that I never understood until I got to the age I am now, and the gravity of seeing ones youth dwindling away suddenly gains more gravity and poignancy?
I moved away due to circumstances a while ago, and although I got on with life, did lots of great things, travelled about the country working here and there. I always yearned to come back, when I did manage it I was stunned and saddened, it was like a well kept secret had finally got out. Maybe thats the rub, I have been able to see the sharp contrast as opposed to not noticing the gradual shift?


Lol, I know what you mean about social climbers, there are loads round here. I don't mind what they are all about, its just the sneering that goes along with it, it's just so unnecessary and unpleasant. Oh well, not my bad!


Well, the sun is shining, I have a million things to do....garden being one of them, so I'll take advantage of the rare warmth and do a bit in our little sad looking plot!




Baking, that's something I haven't done in a while. Not that I am by any means proficient, but it is a good thing to do when there are banana's that are looking a bit ropey! Funnily enough, despite my efforts at getting healthy snacks in the house, I end up watching them turning from a delicate sunny yellow to a wizened mess almost everytime! 

[Cupcake]

I honestly do think that the urge to "belong" is normal in any creature that lives in social groups.  You see little girls wearing identical stuff and even at primary school, there are distinct little subsets.  It's all about the criteria.  Mine are pretty broad - I like everyone until they give me reason not to.  Some people are very narrow in their focus - wear the wrong shoes, live in the wrong street or something equally silly and that's it for them.   Seems a shame to me when the world is so big and interesting that people fence themselves into tiny little minds like that! 
 
Baking is joyous.  Potter about my kitchen stirring and singing and then feed all the people I love on things that make them smile.  I think all those sour-faced, judgemental souls out there would improve greatly if they baked an occasional cake.   I know for sure that when I knock on doors round here with a bag of scones and a pot of home made jam, I'm definitely welcome!         

[sheilanz]

Most of the biscuits made here are pretty well the same
as at your end ,  however here is a very old NZ recipe
 
                  Anzac Biscuits  pre heat oven 350f
 
2oz  Flour....2oz Butter....2oz Sugar
1 tablespoon Golden Syrup.... 1 teacup of Coconut
 1 teacup of Porridge oats.... 1/2 teaspn Soda
  2 tablespoons Boiling Water..
 
 Melt butter and Syrup...
Mix together flour, sugar, coconut,and rolled oats
Dissolve soda in the Boiling Water,now add Butter and Syrup
 
Make a well in the Centre of dry ingredients and stir in the
liquid.....
Place spoonfuls onto Cold greased tray..
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes...eat and enjoy

[celeste]

I'm putting that on the Recipe thread Sheila, sounds very inviting
 
Afternoon tea anyone?

[St Chads]

If by being Posh you mean  decent reliable and have a bob or two ....then i am guilty as charged .
I was brought into this world with nothing but worked hard all my life to get a good education for my sons , a good education and love is what we  gave to our sons .Posh is just a word ...it's what you are like inside and to others that counts imo.
 
 

[celeste]

Sounds fine to me D
 
Nice new avatar I see

[St Chads]

Sounds fine to me D
 
Nice new avatar I see

Thankyou   kind lady celeste.

[Adsum]

I can remember my mum and others scathingly remarking about women with aspirations to be "Posh", saying. "She's all fur coat and no knickers".

[Cupcake]

Adsum, it's truer now than ever before.  I could name a dozen ladies within a mile of where I sit who are swanning round in the required designer labels but whose kids had no winter coats or shoes.  My mum was so worried about one child last winter in subzero temperatures that she bought a coat and told the mother it came from lost property and to just return it as and when.  Never saw it again....
 
St Chads, it's honestly not about what people are or have, it's about the way they treat others.  The bunch I am talking about round here won't let their kids give party invitations to any child living in a council-owned property.  If that means inviting every little girl or boy in the class except one, they will do so.  I'd be just as down on any parent who excluded a child like that because his or her parents were rich.   Judging people without bothering to get to know them and deciding people aren't even worth a greeting in the street is just horrible.