Good morning, to all my dear, special, lovely friends on the Type 2 Life thread of the DCUK Forum,
Yesterday my HomeHelp came in the morning and gave me my tablets and loaded up my washing machine with used clothes and swept the kitchen floor. Yesterday I ate bangers and mash cooked by Max like my dear old Mum used to cook and if we'd have had a tin of baked beans we could have had bangers, mash and beans which my old Mum called a Cowboy Dinner. Last night, Max made Bubble and Squeak (another tasty meal my old Mum used to make for me) which consisted of finely chopped white onions, boiled Spring greens and Potatoes which Max fried in a frying pan and then browned under my grill. Max was disgusted in my posh, elderly care-home-ridden friend Roger who a long time ago referred to my Mum's Bubble and Squeak, or any Bubble and Squeak, as being "peasant food" and stripping my poor Mum of her dignity by describing her as a "hopeless pauper and peasant". Roger was completely class-ridden and on another occasion, I kindly introduced him to my mum and dad he described them as "common as muck". I found this very hurtful and inaccurate. My Mum and Dad were working class, and I'm proud to be from a working-class family who always worked hard and paid their Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions and never accepted "Freebies" off of the State, not that I think there's anything too bad about needing financial relief in times of extreme austerity and poverty, that's one thing the Labour MP Aneurin Bevan did that was beautiful in 1945-1946 in founding the NHS for us and a few years before the Welfare State/Benefits System. My Parents provided for me in their taxes and donations to the Social Care System to receive help during my disabilities, not many people's mums and dads would have done that so it's quite obvious that Roger's comments about my mum and dad being "common" and "vulgar" was a lot of nonsense and rubbish.
