I have just finished reading "Stuff White People Like" by Christian Lander. If you haven't read it yet, then do. I found myself wincing in self-recognition. Rather than describe it here, I'd rather you looked at the book's page on Amazon... and buy it, if you like it. Or visit his blog, on which the book is based.As a child in the seventies, I grew up learning what the Mitford sisters had described two decades before - what was 'U' and 'non U'. I knew, perhaps through cultural osmosis, perhaps because my parents drummed it into me, that I would always use a napkin and never a serviette; that I sat on a sofa and not a settee; that I went to the lavatory rather than the toilet. I still know those things. And I remain slightly perturbed by those that don't.
This blog is inspired by Christian Lander's book and my own upbringing. I'm not sure that in deciding to write it I have necessarily made the 'right' decision. Too gauche or too knowingly self-deprecatory? You judge.
