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Daddima Sun 03-Apr-16 18:23:53

I have a living room.
I have a couch.
I have a lavatory.
I use napkins.
I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

whitewave Sun 03-Apr-16 19:59:35

She buggered off with the Prince without a backward glance after all the vigil and care from the dwarfs

Alima Sun 03-Apr-16 20:01:45

Marmight, your meal arrangements sound exhausting! Well impressed by the chez longue btw.

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 20:11:46

Yes, I thought that, Whitewave. Not even a backward glance!

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 20:12:28

Selfish moo!

morethan2 Sun 03-Apr-16 20:17:15

I have
Living room
Settee
Toilet
Don't use napkins
I have breakfast, lunch and dinner
I have an ice lolly on hot days
But this is only since I moved south I used to have
Front room
Couch
Toilet
Used serviettes in cafe only
We had breakfast, dinner and tea. All taken in the back kitchen
I used to have lolly ices on hot days.
I love listening to Paul O'Grady he uses phrases and names I recognise from my youth.

Kittye Sun 03-Apr-16 20:25:00

Living room
Sofa
Toilet
Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
When I was growing up in the north it was
Living room
Settee
Toilet
Breakfast dinner and tea.

Greenfinch Sun 03-Apr-16 20:34:58

The other room
Settee
Toilet
breakfast ,lunch and dinner.
Use paper serviettes when visitors come and at Christmas

Indinana Sun 03-Apr-16 20:44:39

When I was little, we had a front room, where there was a three piece suite shock and a radiogram. We used to wear bumpers on our feet for playing out. All the roadside footpaths were called pavements, whether or not they were actually paved.
We had breakfast, school dinner and dinner (mum never really trusted that the school dinners were good enough grin). At weekends we had breakfast, dinner and tea, the dinner being our main meal, and the tea was high tea - bread and butter, cakes, and a pot of tea.

Gagagran Sun 03-Apr-16 20:44:39

When I was growing up we had

Front room

Settee

Breakfast, dinner, tea. (Supper was something you might have before bed if you had only had a light tea)

George (This was the name used for the lavatory as in "I'm going to see George") The actual WC was thus referred to as George. Weird or what?

Now I have

Sitting room

Sofa

Breakfast, dinner, tea (You can take the girl out of the north......)

Loo

Kitchen roll/paper serviettes left over from Christmas

lynnie1 Sun 03-Apr-16 21:07:08

Maybe tea is a Northern thing ?

Ana Sun 03-Apr-16 21:10:39

I think it probably is, lynnie1. As 'lavvy' seems to be a Southern thing...grin

hildajenniJ Sun 03-Apr-16 21:12:11

I have a,
Living room
Sofa
Breakfast, dinner, supper (tea is for high days and holidays).
Toilet
Napkins.

No serviettes in this house! grin

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 21:32:14

Most people in Norfolk call it "tea".

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 21:34:40

I would never criticise anything from up north because I'd like to live there.

lynnie1 Sun 03-Apr-16 21:59:39

Irony much, patronising much

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 22:03:51

Don't speak in riddles....just come out with it

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 22:04:55

You are patronising too.

lynnie1 Sun 03-Apr-16 22:08:14

Come out with what ? You were incredibly rude to a comment I made. I don't come online to argue with strangers. Crack on...

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 22:09:34

You said I was patronizing to say I wanted move up north. What is wrong with my saying that???

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 22:11:53

I also don't want arguments. If I have offended I apologised. Where was I being ironic or patronising?

Indinana Sun 03-Apr-16 22:13:34

Oh please don't let yet another lighthearted and harmless thread descend into chaos over an unintentional insult. wot has apologised. Profusely. Leave it there.

Galen Sun 03-Apr-16 22:15:53

Lounge
Conservatory
Dining room
Kitchen
Toilet
Use seviettes
Tell GCSEs 'graggy 's going for a weehmm

Galen Sun 03-Apr-16 22:16:49

GCSEs? B iPad. Grandchildren

Ana Sun 03-Apr-16 22:18:26

Oh Galen, thank goodness someone else calls it a 'lounge'!

And I agree with all your other descriptions too! smile

Indinana Sun 03-Apr-16 22:21:21

Just as an aside: a friend told me a story many years ago of a little girl who told her she was moving to a new house. "And in our new house", she said, "we have a living room AND a dying room!"

Sorry. As you were wink