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Seven social classes: I’m from the cleaning elite

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Did you do it? Did you do the Great British Class Calculator? It’s hard to resist finding out if you’re really who you think you are. What if you’re posher than you feared or more proletariat than you’d hoped? Apparently there are now seven class divisions from the precariat to the elite and we all […]

Ok, I admit I’m a snob

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Natural fibres and proper coffee. Meals at the table and butter in a butter dish. Bed time stories and thank you letters. My fondness for these things is what, on occasion, the Panther of News has used as evidence of my snobbery.I poopoo this notion insisting that it’s just proof that I know what I […]

Out of the oven…

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My name is Ellen and yesterday I bought a deep fat fryer. There now you know my latest secret. I’ve never owned one and only used one once while I was the chef on a luxury motor yacht. It was stormy and the whole frying thing was presented some less-common challenges at the time.In theory, […]

More secrets

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A couple of days ago I shared a few of my little secrets. It felt good – I’m clearly on the way to being a shiny, absolved person who will manage to defy the laws of time, age and clutter. So I’ve decided to come back for another go. I’m addicted to carrots. I eat […]