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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.

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

You are patronising too.

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

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

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

Irony much, patronising much

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

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

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

Most people in Norfolk call it "tea".

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

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

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

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

Maybe tea is a Northern thing ?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Selfish moo!

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

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

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

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

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

wot Sun 03-Apr-16 19:59:26

The snow white film was lovely. I almost cried. All the lovely birds and animals.

Indinana Sun 03-Apr-16 19:58:22

We have dinner, on a tray on our lap, sitting on one of the two sofas in our lounge. And because of this slobby behaviour, we use white damask napkins to protect our clothes!

We have a perfectly good dining room but as it's been requisitioned (by me blush) as a sewing room, we can't eat our breakfast, lunch or dinner in there.

When the call of nature arises, I rush upstairs to our one and only loo.

whitewave Sun 03-Apr-16 19:55:13

Yes I have a clothes horse -the Prince has just woken Snow White

janeainsworth Sun 03-Apr-16 19:53:51

My grandma had a scullery which to all intents and purposes was the kitchen. When did that go out of fashion?

Marmight Sun 03-Apr-16 19:53:43

sitting room,
sofa
chez longue wink
loo,
kitchen roll, or licked fingers
breakfast,
brunch if I miss breakfast
lunch if I haven't had brunch,
dinner, if I haven't had tea which is cucumber sandwiches and cake at 4 pm on high days and holidays,
supper on days when I miss dinner, but have had tea
midnight feast, if I am not sleeping - probably banana, custard and milk

janeainsworth Sun 03-Apr-16 19:52:21

Lounge
Settee
Loo
Napkins only when we have company
Breakfast
Lunch
Like GD tea or dinner depending on the time.

BBbevan Sun 03-Apr-16 19:52:05

Living room
Dining room
Loo
Sofa
Stove not cooker
Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sometimes a small supper before bed.

Antjexix Sun 03-Apr-16 19:51:55

Also , I have a clothes horse not an airer...