Set in your ways? Adaptable? Eccentric?

Sadly minus the nude male wrestling JessM

Sounds terribly DH Lawrence deedaa

When I was at school our art mistress (who wore yellow stockings) used to get her mother to pose for us in the weird and wonderful collection of coloured scarves and beads that she always wore. I thought then that I would aim to look like her when I got old and I think I'm doing quite well. My daughter has always modelled herself on Diana in Waiting for God, a role which suits her very well

Grannyactivist - I love the sound of your house!
I don't see anything eccentric in wanting a bird table or a door knocker!

Granny .

I think that in some way we all have little eccentricities. After all none of us will conform to the norm in every respect.
My lifestyle is considered peculiar even by some those who benefit by it; after their (free) English language lesson several of my students were leaving the house last week just as the next lot were arriving, along with a local man who was calling in, as he occasionally does, in the hope of a cuppa; he's a dear chap, but has some mental problems and his hygiene isn't always the best. You can imagine the hallway was chaos for a few moments then one of the students piped up, "How can your family live like this with so many people using your house?" My (newly married and living here with his wife) son was on his way out at the time and responded, "Oh it's okay - we come and go too."
My children all believe that I'm an oddity, but they accept that I can be no other than I am - and sometimes they love me for it and sometimes they love me in spite of it.

That is so eccentric annodomini ([cross].

Done it again - clicked a second time, sorry!

My family must have thought me eccentric when I asked for a bird table, because I didn't get one! Forget now what I did get - probably a scarf of which I have a pretty comprehensive wardrobe.

My family must have thought me eccentric when I asked for a bird table, because I didn't get one! Forget now what I did get - probably a scarf of which I have a pretty comprehensive wardrobe.

Why does my daughter think I'm odd because I want a doorknocker for Xmas?

I don't like the one I have (an URN?).....I said, well at least it isn't ordinary

Fondasharing that sounds bout right to me. Lovely and messy. But my DS has been known to refer to me as "mad Nana". Other son calls me "jess" these days.
Someone once said to my mother "One thing about your children. They are never boring" My ma went on to say she was so glad we were not teenagers at that particular moment as we would undoubtedly have been punks - or was it goths...
Pe-lease. Nose piercing? Never.
But I feel pretty boring these days. Harry Potter - I wish. I have written a book about the immune system and I am writing a sequel about the gut. Not likely to be mega best sellers methinks!

My dgds call me NanaBanana because they think I'm bonkers!

I thought I was relatively normal until I learnt my niece called me ' Dotty Aunty........' as do all her friends! I wonder what she has said to them ?

My 14 year old GS brought a friend from school here. I made some remark I thought was just ordinary whereupon GS gave a significant look to his friend and murmured 'see I told you what she's like'

I don't think I'm eccentric but Roy from Coronation Street definitely is, although Hayley isn't even though she is a transsexual.

There are no eccentrics in East Enders.

My grandchildren all ending up calling me "Mad Gran" when they are old enough to get to know me, and my own children think I am much too "alternative".

The grandchildren love it because I will sing and dance along with them in public spaces, sit in the front row of the cinema calling out to the cartoons with them, allowing them to use all my make-up and nail varnish, making a mess in the kitchen etc.etc. I thought all this was "normal" but compared to their other grandparents I am not mainstream, although judging by Gransnet there are a lot of other Mad Grans out there!!! Thank goodness.

My children think I am alternative because I never like to hear "can't, I'm bored, I'm stressed, too busy etc.etc." They will then receive a book in the post, or an article from the Internet which suggests another way forward. My eldest daughter was making my Mum (who is 88) laugh the other day because she was reading out all the titles of books I have sent her over the years in order to help her on her journey through life. My Mum retorted by sharing with her all the Christmas presents I have bought her which are still in the bottom drawer...i.e. footbath, handwarmers, massage brushes etc.etc. They all think I am just too much...but I think they like it really!

When he was 14 DS came home from school and said to me in passing; 'I am glad I have eccentric parents'. This took me rather by surprise because I thought we were boringly normal.

You must be due for a 'frequent sailor' discount!

Expensive!

I won't be going for a few years , jeni - anyway, what's a 12,000 mile cruise to a world traveller like you! And I can promise you I will definitely be living in a bungalow in NZ - I know about earthquakes!

JessM Your'e not sitting in a cafe writing a rival book to Harry Potter are you?

If I win the lottery, perhaps I could buy a ground floor flat! But then you're emigrating!

Greatnan You make us laugh...a gift, in what can sometimes seem, a grey and gloomy world.

I can confirm that you are a very good driver, Greatnan and that I never had white knuckles. Not that some of the roads weren't 'interesting'.

Soop -
I wish I lived on the ground floor or my block had a lift, then I could show her the beautiful mountain scenery. (And I don't drive up very scary paths, do I Anno? You never got white knuckles once!)