David and Pennie relaxing...

David and Pennie relaxing..., originally uploaded by Pennie David.

We’ve just inherited these chairs, they came from Mum and Dad who couldn’t get out of them easily so they gave them to (DB2) Nick and Kaye, they had them for a while but found them too big so they gave them to Nerys and Tim who had them for a while till they discovered they will be too big for their new home so they’ve given them to us which was convenient because at the same time one of our couches broke.
I was recently amused to read a story about why Prince William cannot marry the girl he was going out with... the article was written ‘tongue in cheek’ and the mention of ‘U and non-U’ came up... he is ‘U’ she ‘non-U’. Having lived in England 3 times I’ve always been highly amused with the term ‘U and non-U’ and having met several ‘U’ people who took themselves so seriously I’ve been dining out on our latest nod to being placed in the same basket. Several things distinguish a ‘U’ person from a ‘non-U’ person one of which is...
‘U’ people never have to buy their furniture!! Another one is whether a person goes to the Lavatory or Loo = ‘U’ people or those who go to the ‘Toilet’ = ‘non-U’ I’ll have to watch myself on that one LOL
I got the below from Wikipedia, Nancy Mitford is a wonderful author who wrote about the class system of Britain brilliantly in her books, she married a Rodd so we feel we know her almost!

U and non-U English usage, with U standing for upper class, and non-U representing the rest, were part of the terminology of popular discourse of social dialects (sociolects) in 1950s Britain and the northeast United States.
The English author Nancy Mitford was alerted and immediately took up the usage in an essay, “The English Aristocracy”.