Posh manners (2): meeting the parents.

In this video, you can find a good example how to act in this kind of embarrassing situations.



What can you say me? What would you do in this circumstance? Surprisingly amazing, doesn't it? (Thanks to Little Britain).


Bye chaps and be posh.


Elgaine de Balliers

Posh manners (1): how to have tea.

Here you have a video that ilustrates what it's posh. I though it could be necessary to express what is posh so taking advantage of technology, I will try to show you in a educational way. And who else better than an original British sketch to show us how to be posh.


Well, in this one, you can discover how to regurgitate elegantly. And, what can you say me about her total control? I thought I was a expert (in the old times, like our friend) at that but I didn't ever have that mastery.

Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed it. Thanks and be posh.

Elgaine de Balliers

Feeling like an alien in the planet Posh.

As you can know, I started to work in a bank recently. I work in a department related to mortgages, consumer loans and all kind of financial and insurance products and the life here is quite calmed. Apart of my excellent timetable, we have a lot of breaks for coffees probably because normally we don’t have so much tasks now and besides because I don’t have computer user and access to data, I can’t work and I spend (probably waste) time reading surveys, briefings and power point presentations. Indeed, it’s quite boring but not only for these reasons. The main reason is I feel like a being from another world (well, that’s true if you consider where I live) when everybody seem to be upper-class people. What can a penniless buddy like me speak with them? The point is I feel much hesitant and strange probably because it has been a drastic change from my former company’s work environment and I don’t know them so well and besides we have so much time to chat.

He wasn't so much posh in the old times

I am not going to stay so much time there but I would like to obtain a good experience from this job but I don’t know if I am going to fit in it. Anyway, I will try to do my best while I am having a look at this book.

Take care and bye for now.

Elgaine de Balliers.

PS: Anastasia was quite angry because she can’t stand reading my post using the language of Shakespeare. For me, as you know (or you should know), writing in English is only an exercise because it’s a funny way to practice it but considering this complaint, I will try to write a precise translation into the language of Cervantes. It will take a bit more time but probably it could help some people to understand better what I try to express and that can correct my mistakes (as you can read, I commit a lot of them in each post). But it'll start on the next post.

A(nother) new job…

Finally, I had to take this decision because my recent problems with my boss and the quite tense labour ambient (as you can know if you read and update your knowledge about Elgaine de Balliers). It wasn’t an easy choice because my new is in a bank, covering a maternity leave. But, there weren’t so much better options:

a) Go to unemployment list while I am waiting for a decent job.

b) Get a junk job.

c) Suffering that kind of mobbing in my former company.

d) Work in a bank for several months.

It’s a temporal job with the same salary but it’s got better timetable (from 8h to 15h). It could be boring doing surveys about mortgages or consume credits but it’s got better quality, during the summer. And they said me it is likely to do more substitutions after this one but that doesn’t like me so much because I would like stability and labour development.

Anyway, September can be better to get a new one with better perspectives but for now, I can be happy considering my situation.

Greetings and be good…

Elgaine de Balliers.