I hate it @Obelixx - it has...connotations I just find it easier when daughter has the same initial. I kept opening her mail! I often just put my initial and surname, but everything comes back addressed to Mr.
Sometimes when I fill in those forms, I'm tempted to choose General, or Commander. One of these days....
Anyway, some people get far too worked up about it all. Like @raisingirl said, 'all of the above' when asked, is a great solution.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Added to which my local hedgehog rescue has had their donation bin removed from the local Tesco because people were taking the tins of dog food etc. from it (even though there were plenty on the shelves).
Iâm curmudgeonly because I have done all outstanding gardening jobs, plus itâs cold, miserable and raining and I canât find an excuse to go out. The borders have never been so weed-free. OH keeps dropping heavy hints about my tackling the ironing pile. I am inventing important correspondence, i.e. mooching about on here, then, when approached, flicking to that email I am writing to my elderly uncle in the spirit of keeping his old pecker up.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
In older English and not that recently, boys were master and men mister @Omori.Â
@Fairygirl - I am always amused when filling in forms for RHS stuff as their list of possible titles extends well beyond the Mr, Mrs, Miss range so you could happily go for lord, lady, commander, general etc.
When I started university (after 22 gap years), I looked forward to the day when, being asked, "Miss or Mrs?" I could say, "Doctor". Alas, after five years I never wanted to see another textbook, so I'm still plain Mrs. But at least, if I have occasion to write a letter of complaint, I can follow my name with BSc (Hons) which roughly translated means, "Not just a whingeing airhead, you useless bunch of drongos."
Mum used to do that when she was letting someone know she was cleverer and not to be messed with. She initially trained as a nurse and midwife then went on to university mid career. My headmaster was being a tosser at one point and got the full blast when she pointed out his intellectual and administrative failings - PhD, MSc, Dip ??, SRN, SCM, and all the qualifications and fellowships of this and that which required a second line.
He had to agree to her demands but it didn't win her a friend or admirer.
@Obelixx - I quite fancy Lord. Might do that next time.... @Nollie- at what point will your OH cotton on to the fact that your email seems to be approaching the length of War and Peace.... @AnniD I'm no longer surprised at the depths humans sink to. I was just talking to my neighbour across the road earlier. We were saying exactly that - is half of it in a bin somewhere, and that the enforcement on numbers of items should have come in right away. Should have been as soon as loo roll was disappearing quicker than Trump's credibility... Taking dog food...well, they might as well be raiding dustbins if they're as lousy as that. At least folk who steal charity tins have some kind of a 'justification' because of a habit. What's the excuse for these lowlifes?Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hmm, I think I have just been rumbled, @Fairygirl, the worker from home upstairs has just descended and dished out a  âwhen you have the time, could you just...â accompanied by the disapproving look treatment đłÂ
Signing off with tail suitably between legs....
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I need to start a comparison chart to compare the number of threads
started by people whose gardens are too flat and cause ponding problems
in the rain with those whose gardens are too steep and they want to know
the best way to level them out. I bet the numbers will compare with the
balance of people who want to rip their grass out vs the number of people who want to remove paving and install a lawn. I'm surprised anyone isn't grateful for a good slope in their garden after this winter though.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I just find it easier when daughter has the same initial. I kept opening her mail!
I often just put my initial and surname, but everything comes back addressed to Mr.
Sometimes when I fill in those forms, I'm tempted to choose General, or Commander.
One of these days....
Anyway, some people get far too worked up about it all. Like @raisingirl said, 'all of the above' when asked, is a great solution.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/furious-reaction-pictures-showing-bins-17993108
Added to which my local hedgehog rescue has had their donation bin removed from the local Tesco because people were taking the tins of dog food etc. from it (even though there were plenty on the shelves).
@Fairygirl - I am always amused when filling in forms for RHS stuff as their list of possible titles extends well beyond the Mr, Mrs, Miss range so you could happily go for lord, lady, commander, general etc.
He had to agree to her demands but it didn't win her a friend or admirer.
@Nollie- at what point will your OH cotton on to the fact that your email seems to be approaching the length of War and Peace....
@AnniD I'm no longer surprised at the depths humans sink to. I was just talking to my neighbour across the road earlier. We were saying exactly that - is half of it in a bin somewhere, and that the enforcement on numbers of items should have come in right away. Should have been as soon as loo roll was disappearing quicker than Trump's credibility...
Taking dog food...well, they might as well be raiding dustbins if they're as lousy as that.
At least folk who steal charity tins have some kind of a 'justification' because of a habit. What's the excuse for these lowlifes?Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Signing off with tail suitably between legs....