i guess it doesn't really bug me because i'm used to it now :') i've lived in essex since i was two, and i went to school with people who's mums were classed as 'yummy mummies' and they all spoke like that :')
and i have a tendancy to talk a bit like that sometimes :') but my dad is from ireland and my mum is from central london, so no-one in my family really has an essex accent. apart from my mum's dad. oh gosh. he says 'aw bladdy 'ell' and it's so funny. :') he talks like the people from 'the only way is essex' LOLOLOLOL