Keeping Up Appearances.....

[ToraToraTora]

Classic sitcom genius writing and cast but one thing that occurs to me is that How did Hyacinth and Richard ever get together? I mean Once she found out his name was Bucket, being the upper-class wannabee she is, she'd have either dumped him or used another name. Or....perhaps she became a snob later...Yes I know it's best not to ask too many questions about these things.....!

[retrocop]

One night stand followed by a shotgun wedding????

[Tilly2]

Looking at her family, she was not born into the middle classes. So, Richard was ok in those days. As time went on she became what she became but often let her lower class upbringing spill out. :-)

[Barsel]

She did use another name, Bouquet.

[-SharonA-]

Yes bucket was turned into bouquet, with the help of French accents!!

[naomi24]

That was just the way she pronounced Bucket.

[ToraToraTora]

It was always Bucket but pronounced Bouquet.

[Barsel]

TTT ///I mean Once she found out his name was Bucket, being the upper-class wannabee she is, she'd have either dumped him or used another name. ///
She did.

[naomi24]

Barsel, Bouquet really was the way she pronounced Bucket. The name was never spelt Bouquet.

[ToraToraTora]

barsel, are you being deliberately belligerent? This ain't news. I mean she'd have changed it to some suitable posh name. She never changed the name Bucket, she changed the pronunciation, not the spelling, hence the comedic device that is used throughout.

[jourdain2]

When I was young I knew a lady called Mrs. Sidebottom. She pronounced it 'Siddybotoam'.

[Tilly2]

A bit like Sidebottom becoming Siddybotume. :-)

[Tilly2]

Snap Jourdain!

[ToraToraTora]

I'm actually watching "The Boy Friend" right now on UK Gold, classic!

[Zacs-Master]

Watched an Ep of dinnerladies last night. Top stuff.

[naomi24]

I knew someone who came from Whitechapel and insisted she came from Whitechappell.

[Barsel]

Naomi, TTT, of course, I knew the name was Bucket and that she changed the pronunciation of it to sound posh.
It's one of those where people read it not as it was meant to be read.
I don't mean she changed it by deed poll. :-)
My Mum in her Hyacinth phase, changed the spelling of our surname because she felt it looked better and would always correct anyone who spelt it the other way.

[ToraToraTora]

Battersea was known in some circles as B'ter-see-ah!

[jackthehat]

In one constabulary in which my father work, there was a Detective Constable Parrot and his older brother Superintendent 'Parrow'.....LoL

[Redhelen72]

We need the script writers to do Bouquet the origin story

[ToraToraTora]

oddly enough helen there is a prequel series about when they were younger, called "Young Hyacinth". Though that seems to be way before they met husbands etc.