Daughter’s astonishing comment!

How do you address a Bishop?

JaneJudge You write his postcode across his purple shirt and stick a first-class stamp on his mitre.

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very funny

JaneJudge

How do you address a Bishop?

Politely would be a start and, if it was important to you and yours, in about three different ways I think. A bit like the Queen is "Your Majesty" on first meeting and subsequently Ma'am I think there is something similar for Bishops. There's probably a different way when writing too - addressing a letter and salutation.

Mind you, it's more likely to be on a first-name basis these days I would have thought.

Aged 15 my DD would NOT have braces on her teeth. Now she's 40 I get the blame for her crooked teeth! Ever thought we can't win!

My daughter blames me for everything bad in her life. The other day she said, 'You left me at school with all those awful teachers.' She went to the best school in the area. There were a couple of not fantastic teachers, but I think they were probably perfectly adequate. Whereas she was a totally disinterested student. BUT it was all the teachers fault.

On one trip to America with one son aged 14, we got "you realise I'm giving up several weeks of my school holidays, when I could be spending it with my friends to keep you both happy for this!!" Now he's prone to reminisce "those holidays you took us on when we were young were the best, I realise that when I had to start paying for them myself"

I could have been a concert pianist were it not for my DM giving in to my endless badgering to give up piano lessons at age 12.
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My daughter, age 10 was a type 1 diabetic and also a vegetarian. At the hospital one day the Dr told her he was changing her insulin from pigs insulin to a man made one. My daughter was horrified and said to me you knew I was a vegetarian but you let me use pigs insulin. Words failed me.

When her children were determined to follow a course of action she didn't agree with, or could see was not a good idea, my friend used to tell them,

"I need to say this to you, and you need to listen. What you do after that is up to you, but you can never say I didn't warn you."

OOpsadaisy, I imagine your very posh neighbour is quite lonely . There cannot be many people with the same sort of memories as hers and if she is old that makes her even more unusual.

I think you call a bishop "Bishop" as in "How do you like this weather, Bishop ?"

That is what you do with a duchess. First is "Your Grace" then "Duchess". If you are the person's employee they might have different house rules.

Our DD1 holds me responsible for her not liking sandwiches (any kind). She said in conversation that it is my fault as I didn’t give her any as a child.
That’s quite funny as I remember trying her with cheese, ham, tuna, jam and honey sandwiches - all of which she refused to eat as a child. ?
I think it’s “selective memory”.

Yes, I had a similar experience with my high flying daughter. She turned to me at one point and said that she shouldn’t have done all the studies she did and that maybe she would have been happier doing less as her sisters as they don’t have her stress. I, in no way forced her, she was so strong minded. Her sisters work for the public, hospital and school and earn a third of her salary. However, she loves her lifestyle and being able to spend as she does. But somehow I felt she was blaming me!

Our son once complained that he and his sister had been deprived of certain foods because I don’t like them. When asked to name them , the only ones he could think of were cockles and whelks. I reminded him that as a child the only vegetables he would eat were peas and once when served these at a neighbour’s house, refused to eat them because they were wrinkly.

I'm still taken aback when my 38 year old son says he enjoyed things he did as a child when for a long time he claimed to hate them.

My dad used to joke he was sending me to finishing school

It isn't only grown-up children who do this.

Sisters and brothers do it too.

I honestly think we all remember what we want to remember and forget the rest,

All one can do is point out that we all remember things differently and that that seems to be part of human nature.

The honest answer to "Why didn't you warn me that the man I had chosen was no good?" is and always has been, "You would not have believed me if I had said so at the time. I would only have offended you."

My mother threatened to send me to a Swiss finishing school when I was a wild teenager. It was a threat but I wish I’d said OK now! As a 71 YO it sounds great to me now. BTW yes kids do forget things but then so do parents!

Yes, they all do,(boys and girls) only seem to remember their own version of events from the 'growing up years'?- but finishing school?really? Is that you're way of telling us you're a bit posh Missfoodlove??

I don't understand why this is here, but you address a bishop on an envelope as "His Grace the Bishop of..."

You can start the letter simply with "Your Grace" or if you are on really formal terms "Reverend Father in God".

I address mine by his baptismal name, which is what most people do these days, but in speech if you are being formal you say, "Your Grace".

Yes they all do,

My daughter, who avoided any social events and wouldn't step out of the door or phone any friends to see if they were available to go out, astonished me. Apparently, had I let her hang around on street corners like her other friends then she wouldn't have had the anxieties she had. Yes, I insisted that I knew where she was, had a decent bed time on school nights and was safe but I never stopped her going out. Her brother regularly just "hung about" with his mates at the skate park. He was well known enough to have to behave or it would have been reported back to me. It would have been the same for her. Some of the things I wouldn't let her do have been an enlightenment to me!

Oh this is such a reassuring thread!