Any more towers, hf?

Strawberry blancmange on the way, gehls.

wtf do I use to serve that ?

It's doily or doilie, Kingsroad.

Apparently named after a 17th century London draper.

<shudders at mention of working classes>

nictorina, that sounds rather like a Purple Ronnie poem...
I have Humour books in the loo, like Wit, More Wit, and 6000 bits of funny stuff (can't remember what it's called); also, Stephen Fry's Paperweight and Hector Hugh Munro's collected short stories. I used to have Giles cartoon books, and the Sloane Ranger's handbook, until the loo took offence and flooded all over them.

Oooh love a good loo book! Sloane Ranger Handbook (which, in itself, is a fine example of a splendid loo book) states there should be many in the loo for entertainment purposes. Couldn't possibly go to the loo without a bit of reading material...
How's the prawn ring? Mini gherkin on a doiley anyone? (is that how one spells doiley?!)

Now that is class. All books in the shitter loo should be of the adult humour variety.

We have toilet books. But ours have poems in like

"Some people screw up their faces
And let their farts out bit by bit
Some people hope that they'll creep back inside
But it's great fun to just let them rip"

Is it friday night already Bella?

It's alright, gehls, it's from the Latin, as one suspected. Amo, amas amat...

Prawn ring, anyone?

<moves away from Perardua for fear ofbeing contaminated by her working class roots>

Yes, very silly. One could so easily make a faux pas by using a bit of French

<goes off to check derivation of 'spatula' before taking risky step of using it in conversation, let alone on her prawn ring>

This thread makes me laugh! To join in the discussion we have a "coffee table" which is actully an old navy trunk from school. It is mainly used for putting our crap on - ie laptop and white company catalogues prior to them being read/thrown out. In answer to the op, I suppose it it would be seen (particularly according to Jilly Cooper's "Class" book - v amusing) as "aspirational middle class" to proudly display pristine and purposefully arranged carefully selected books, designed to demonstrate how "not lower middle class" the person in question was. It is v unlikely anyone secure in their social standing would go to such an effort. However, it is worth noting that people who are U don't give a shit about what others think anyway. If you want a coffee table book, have one, who cares what others think?

sorry - that may have been a bit serious for this thread - I do wonder about the prawn ring though... a spatula?