Mrs Bucket.....

[JulieSherris]

I 'forced' hubby to watch 3 episodes of 'Keeping Up Appearances' this morning, with Hyacinth Bucket.......

Honestly, his Mum is the absolute double! It's the facial expressions, the class comments, the little asides, I've been crying with laughter

I told him we had to watch, so we could 'mentally prepare' for her visit.......

He now wants to record some episodes so we can watch them with her - but as I said, it'll go right over her head. If you mention the programme to any of her friends, they usually get this enigmatic smile on their faces.... nuff said.

I'm going to buy hubby a vest & model ourselves on Daisy & Onslow - albeit a greener version

[Millymollymandy]

You are a mean woman, Julie Sherris.

[invisiblepiper]

Oooh I don't know - I kinda like your style! .................now my mother is coming on Christmas Day.........

[Milims]

It must be something about women of a certain generation - my mother is just the same! I watched it yesterday -the one where they were on the QE2 and Onslow and Rose had won a cruise on the same ship. It really made me cringe!

[Rosendula]

I think this is the first time I haven't agreed with you on something, Julie. How can you sit through 3 episodes of that? I can't stand the programme. I think it's because she reminds me of my own mother, who, btw loves Hyacinth Bucket and thinks she's hilarious.

I guess we're all different.

[Odsox]

You mean you moved to the furthest reaches of Galway and she STILL found you

[JulieSherris]

I think this is the first time I haven't agreed with you on something, Julie. How can you sit through 3 episodes of that? I can't stand the programme. I think it's because she reminds me of my own mother, who, btw loves Hyacinth Bucket and thinks she's hilarious.

I guess we're all different.

I think that's the point though, Rose - if she had been MY mum, I wouldn't want to watch it either.
I couldn't stand the matriarch of the Fowler family in Eastenders, because she was an older version of my mum - Lou, I think her name was.....

It's not the programme itself that's funny - it's watching her face & listening to the comments - when really, she has no place to be such a snob. Ditto the MIL..... her parents could barely read & hubby was a book-keeper for the leccy board in Middlesbrough.

I know Millymollymandy said I was mean & yep, sometimes I am - I try & get my own back at times.
10 yrs ago, hubby & I were at her house & got to talking about hs real parents that he'd found a few years before. Daughter of a warehouse worker, son of a fisherman (He was adopted) I can still her words..... "If we'd known that you'd come from a blue collar family, we would never have taken you"...... All said in her best 'Hyacinth' voice, of course

And Tony, she visits for a week twice a year - ok, it's twice a year too often, but we tried our hardest to get as far away from NE england as we could!!

Oh, the fun starts tomorrow - I have to drive to Dublin airport to collect her - a 3 hour drive.... ON MY OWN!
It's not the drive there that's worrying me, it's the drive home - if I was a drinker, I might have a small (magnum) canteen of brandy tucked in the car!

She's already worrying that we may get a puncture on the way back - and obviously, because I'm female, I don't know what to do, do I?
Oh, I can feel my blood pressure rising already, folks..... I am off to chop a few logs & take this feeling out on my saw! See you all later,
Julie x
(And don't mind me, I'm just panicking because I know the stress that she puts on us all while she's here - but when she's 88, how on earth do we get out of it again next year??)