Doilies - Etiquette Alert

[Mosaic]

Abers need to know that I have learned, following on a previous post about table manners, that many young wives who consider themselves 'modern' do not take the trouble to crochet doilies any more, and in fact will serve morning tea to their husbands without laying a doilie on the tray.
Were these 'fast' women not taught table manners?

[mccfluff]

i have to serve morning tea??

[2sp_]

No.

We were too busy drinking cider behind the chippy.

[mccfluff]

bugger do i need to get married?

[Barmaid]

So I'm guessing barking "do you want another coffee or what" doesn't really fit into the "table manners" thing. Hey ho. I shan't ask in future.

[Lie-in King]

I'm not allowed doilies - apparently, I should a tissue.

A "fast" woman? Cooooo...

[Lie-in King]

*use a tissue*

[emmie]

would that be corn doiles

[shoota]

If I got one of those I would return her and demand a refund.
No doilie indeed!

[Buenchico]

Some total hussies, I'm told, even pass the port to the right AND (can you believe it?) cut the nose off the cheese! Flogging is too good for them, I say!!!

[emmie]

pass the port why don't ya... ta muchly

[Mamyalynne]

My Aunty Macassar taught me to crochet doilies.

[daisya]

I love crocheting doilies, means that I am not modern then...sigh. I even used to starch table clothes and bedsheets....ok! I'm old fashioned I hold my hand up...but I do love doilies sorry.

[craft1948]

When I had a friend round for lunch the other day she was surprised to be given a piece of kitchen roll, rather than a napkin (I couldn't be arsed)

[Mosaic]

Daisy, you are the beacon of civilisation in a foundering world. Hold fast and keep faith with the mercerised cotton.

[Mosaic]

Craft - had you given your cook the day orf?

[craft1948]

lol Mosaic, it was a cold lunch from the local deli........

[Barmaid]

If I'm on a normal day its kitchen roll.

Otherwise its linen napkins and a linen tablecloth. No doilies, unless its afternoon tea, in case I'm sorry its paper ones.

But no one gives a **** after the third bottle of plonk anyway.

[boxtops]

If we spill something while we're eating on our laps, we go and get a bit of toilet roll :-)

[Iluvspikey]

I'm crocheting as I read this, not doillies though, a blanket!!!

[China Doll]

Ha! We go the toilet roll route too for spillages and hand wipes doing the dinner... we're not even civilised enough to use kitchen roll... :c)