Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post

Too many people do lack manners of any kind these days.
with you Graham ... I'm a stickler for good manners myself; but it does seem to me that "Mrs To The Manor Bourne" ought to have been more mindful of her own peccadillos and shortcomings, before unleashing her unreasonable "code of conduct" on her future daughter-in-law and possibly alienating her stepson in the process.