Originally posted by eighthobstruction
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You write as a cook (perhaps) and trifle connoisseur! Some of us definitely remember jelly in trifles at parties we went to. Maybe it was something to do with getting over austerity and rationing, which had only just ended by my party going days. Plus the fact that the parties I went to then were for children.Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
I do agree that trifle for adults should be as you describe - and presumably by custard you mean the proper stuff, not the Bird's stuff we used to have.
However, I do recall having sherry at a fairly young age (4 or 5 perhaps) at a wedding - and thought it was great!Comment
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" she didnt treat me like a human being,she treated me like a child...." !!!!!Originally posted by mercia View Post
Still, asking folks to pay for your party is shoddy stuff.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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But then, perhaps you ought to have had the courtesy to tell them you weren't going after all.Comment
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Too much interbreeding over there. Makes people strange.Comment
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The plot thickens!! The Telegraph has now published the full Facebook exchange between the two mothers - in fact I wouldn't be surprised if Mumsnet was not also in turmoil!
Seems like there's a lot of spite and vindictiveness flying around .... in fact they're behaving like a pair of 5 year olds having a tantrum.
I feel sorry for the two little boys, bet they've not had a happy day at nursery school today.Comment
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I assume the woman had to book the number of places for the dry-ski trip in advance, before knowing how many would turn up (?)
The BBC legal man comments
It's amusing to imagine what a children's party invitation seeking to create a contract might say: "I, the 'first party', hereinafter referred to as the 'birthday boy', cordially invite you the 'second party', hereinafter referred to as 'my best friend', to the party of 'the first party'.Comment
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According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Not having followed this [international???] story, I don't know if it was one of the 'paying parties' which I so strongly object to. If anyone invited a g-kid of mine to a birthday where they had to pay to participate (swimming, skating, the cinema or whatever) I would absolutely refuse the offer. It is, or should be, a principle that the host pays. If the host can't afford it, then it's jelly and party games.Comment
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They'll be fine when the Sun offers them 10,000 jelly beans for their exclusive stories and Hello reserves exclusive rights to their wedding pictures with a downpayment of a 5,000 piece Lego set plus a battery powered drone and a guinea pig.Originally posted by Anna View PostComment
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
Julie "Invoice" Lawrence is plainly stark raving bonkers.
And it's invoice "No 1432"...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Stupid to pontificate on English legal principles in this context - Cornwall is NOT part of England(*) and we do things differently hereOriginally posted by mercia View Post
(*)This is official: I've sat behind a Cornish local councillor with these words printed on his T-shirt, all across his very broad back
I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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Yes - I think Daddy's been practising for a few days.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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