My daughter called me Edina for years - can't think why! Still it could have been worse I suppose, I might have been Patsy 
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Thank you, absent - I don't think I know anybody who would let me organise their lives! Which is a pity, because of course I could do it so much better than they do themselves! I sometimes envy people who haven't read Jane's novels - they have such a treat to come! I can read them over and over again, for the wit and the language - I know some passages off by heart.
I was staggered when DD2 said she found them boring - fortunately, DD1 is another devotee. I suppose we just expect the people we love to share our tastes, which is very unrealistic of us.
Bones! As in Temperence.
You are not a bit like Emma, Greatnan. She was a busybody who tried to organise people's lives. If you are really like that, you hide it very well!
I thought the bloke in the park was a bit creepy...
Give me a grumpy dentist any day! (And he was quite deep, too)
I didn't like the fact that dentist's wives were automatically bad cooks 
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Though the bloke in the park was a bit of alright!!
We felt like the Waltons at c*******s.
Ria! I loved her and her awful cooking
No, my mother was Hyacinth!
Us? Feels like the Waltons when they are all here. Only with more 
Sybil Fawlty is my role model
No, when, that's my mother!
My sister was definitely Hyacinth Bucket!
I'd probably be a female version of Victor Meldrew.
@whenim64 - That made me lol!!
An older version of Barbara from The Good Life and my sister in law definitely MARGO....
DH even does that irritating whistle that Tom used to do.
Oh, yes Jess especially the time when my son drove me in his low slung sports car and I fell out on to the pavement on hands and knees. He walked off and left me to it.
Is there a tiny bit of many of us that identifies with Patsy and Edina - the bit that would like to behave like irresponsible teenagers...
Or Norah Batty and Compo!
I think OH and I would probably be compared to George and Mildred...!
I was having my hair done yesterday (daughter has a small home salon) and the other woman who was having hers done joined in our chat, talking about the children, plans for the weekend and so on. I hadn't met her before, but she knew who I was and has met several members of my family at school events and children's parties. As she was leaving, and we were still laughing about children's antics, she said 'now I've met you, I know who your family reminds me of - the Larkins, from the Darling Buds of May! You're Ma Larkin and C (daughter) is Mariette, then there's the twins.' I don't mind that comparison, and it set me thinking.......
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