Waitrose is cheaper than M&S, depending on what you are buying - it price matches with Tesco, which has been price matching with Asda. there was a survey done a couple of years back which showed that on a standard shopping basket it was not extreme. Though it does have some very expensive stuff as well, in terms of ready meals and so on.

I had a post here, but somehow lost it. I came out as 20% chav, but on some very peculiar questions. i get most of my food out of my freezer, but it's food I made before it got in there, not ready meals from Iceland.

Some of the vocabulary is due to perfectly OK dialect variation, which some people have decided is not OK, and which have applied for some time and much more widely than chavdom. The people who find calling your grandmother Nan wrong came, originally, from the class where the word was seen as deriving from the nanny, a paid employee, rather than the affectionate Welsh name.

I don't know why the term settee is seen as derogatory. It is part of a group of words such as lounge/parlour/living room, toilet/lavatory (loo was introduced to remove this problem, but has obviously fallen foul of the class police), table napkin/serviette, and activities such as adding the milk to the cup before/after the tea, or using fish eaters. These are used by the upper class to distinguish them from everyone else, including the middle, and show up in Mitford's U, non-U book. Frankly, I find the sort of people who use such trivial distinctions to judge people as acceptable or not ultra non-U.

Penny