Apologies for going off topic but I couldn’t resist…. for any sitters in Hampshire (UK) “manners makyth man” is also the motto of Winchester College & New College Oxford, with the Trusty Servant pub in the New Forest using Winchester’s painting as their sign.
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From one Winchester girl to another, our headmaster in Stubbington quoted it at us weekly circa 1983 
Although Kingsman sounds cooler 
#winchestergirls
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@DianeS and my mother!! She used to say this phrase all the time growing up in the 70’s and 80’s. I was once grabbed and frog marched back out of a department store for running in front of my mum and pushing past an elderly lady to get into the store. I got a dressing down about manners. Still remember this even though I was probably 7 and it was decades ago! 
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A day or two in the midst of a 7-week sit? Sending photos every day seems excessive, unless you specifically agreed to it, but even then, sheesh, they need to chill. And “photos?” feels really passive-aggressive.
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Can someone please explain ‘passive aggressive’ in logical English please?
I don’t think that a text saying “Photos??” is passive-aggressine, just rude. Passive-aggressive might be me saying “it is a shame that you are too busy to send photos” instead of directly saying that I would like more photos.
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@Lassie you just made me laugh…
OP could have responded (passive aggressively!)
“and you must be too busy to write complete sentences”
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I read that it was first referenced by a US General, so that figures. American is a whole different language to English 
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