What domestic staff you do you have?

[kandr]

So is cash considered vulgar? The idea is a token gift, more than a bonus?

My parents tell me that in their day, it was normal to give binmen, postman, etc, small cash 'presents'. Has that completely gone as well?

You have to ask? Have you or anyone you know every gave a binman/postman etc cash gifts?

[sasguru]

So is cash considered vulgar? The idea is a token gift, more than a bonus?

My parents tell me that in their day, it was normal to give binmen, postman, etc, small cash 'presents'. Has that completely gone as well?

Well a 10 pound bottle of wine seems more substantial than £10 note, particularly as it could be worth more than 10 pounds and no one is to know.

Binmen and postmen, no, certainly not in London where the turnover is so large and you don't know them. I might if i lived in a rural area.

[shaunbhoy]

Motorbikes are very cheap and provide the biggest bang for the buck.

Not if you are too puny to lift them off the stand they're not.
Although I guess for you that is not an issue........with it being virtual and all.

Or maybe you're not confident of your cognitive abilities on a powerful two-wheeler - I don't blame you, I wouldn't if I were you.

My cognitive abilities are tried and tested, being a former professional soldier.
I guess you could have been one also..............if you hadn't kept failing the medical!!

[Mich the Tester]

So is cash considered vulgar? The idea is a token gift, more than a bonus?

My parents tell me that in their day, it was normal to give binmen, postman, etc, small cash 'presents'. Has that completely gone as well?

Whatever people might find vulgar, and whatever Debrett's might say (which is a guide, and not a rulebook), I feel that a real gift is chosen for the recipient and given in a spirit suitable for the recipient's circumstances. If, for example, a recipient is a muslim, I obviously shan't give him a bottle of wine, but perhaps a gift voucher for a good department store. If I know that the recipient is struggling to get by, a small cash bonus might be suitable, as long as it's accompanied by compliments on that person's work; I wouldn't want the recipient to think I'm giving him/her a tenner simply out of sympathy, which may come across as condescending; better to package the 'gift' as a reward for good work.

[oracleslave]

Dunno really, guess cash would be ok, just wasn't really something we considered last year.

I fancy taking my cleaner up the oxo tower.

Blonde, polish belter!

[cailin maith]

I fancy taking my cleaner up the oxo tower.

Blonde, polish belter!

Yeah and I fancy watching Mrs OS as she beats the tulip out of you

[sasguru]

My cognitive abilities are tried and tested, being a former professional soldier.
I guess you could have been one also..............if you hadn't been far too bright to become cannon fodder for a pittance and earned lots of money instead.

FTFY.

[oracleslave]

Yeah and I fancy watching Mrs OS as she beats the tulip out of you

Can't someone be a cleaner and a wife?

[SupremeSpod]

Can't someone be a cleaner and a wife?

Nothing wrong with a bit of the old role-play...

[Mich the Tester]

Can't someone be a cleaner and a wife?

You colonials still have so much to learn.