Re: the 'people's sheep' factor (was UHT milk


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Posted by Adam Quinan on December 06, 2006 at 20:36:46 from 192.75.48.150 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: the 'people's sheep' factor (was UHT milk posted by PeterH on December 06, 2006 at 19:54:29:

Here I am exposing my own wicked and priveleged social background.......

To hear Susan being referred to as Miss Susan by Mrs Dixon seems to be natural for the age and their class difference.

Class differences and different modes of address do not always mean a lack of respect on either side.

My grandparents lived in a Somerset village after my grandfather retired from the Indian Army as a senior officer (OK a General and knighted for his services). They employed Harold Winter as a gardener and general handy man. He always referred to my father as Mr Barry and my mother as Miss Ann, even after they were married. I was just Adam and he was Harold to everyone. He and I spent a fair bit of time together when I was staying with my aging grandmother while I was at boarding school in England and my parents lived in the Middle East. He was like an uncle in some ways.
To me, Harold almost became one of the family over the years. I visited him when I was in England and when he died, he left my brothers and me each a small token item in his will.

My other grandmother had a cleaning lady who was always known as Mrs Woodley. Even after she got too old to work, she used to come down to my grandmother's house once a week for a cup of tea a chat and sometimes to do some small tasks for which she received a small payment, a sort of pension top-up to her regular OAP.


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