to ask if you have plans for eccentricity in your "twilight years"?

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After a conversation with EduStudent, I'm currently working on a plan to have a skill that will delight my DGC but horrify my DC for my GreyBristlyYears.

It may involve toads and only eating food beginning with C.

What will be your peculiarity?

I like the making the front door into a giant cat flap as well and maybe make the house a hat to wear, like they had on the news a few years ago :)

Love the " annoying child of the week" notice board

Think i will implement that idea now

But then dh will want to put his giant inflatable rudolph on the roof at Christmas

Indeed, perhaps we willleave our Christmas decoration s up all year

Rockmaiden - Oh dear, I already have a leash/reigns for my cats.....

Oh dear, beyond help i'm afraid :)

Your not the elderly lady that I see in the local pub are you, lovely lady but a complete fruit cake lol. She takes her cat in the pub on a lead, sometimes wearing a jumper and orders a pint of water for it to drink.

I may do it one day but with a stuffed animal, walk in and ask the bartender to provide a bowl of water and let everyone look in confusion as I dunk the stuffed animal into the bowl constantly saying ' there's a good girl, drink up all your water'

I'm very impressed by our next door neighbour, who must be in her late and very vigorous 80s, maintaining a beautiful garden, and, by late afternoon, usually to be seen in her long nightie, doing a little light weeding with a glass of bubbly on the go.

For myself, I've been given a market for attainment when DD pointed out that I already look a bit Vivienne Westwood-ish so should go for it big-time, with madder hair and redder lipstick. All the time. Nothing casual permitted.

Does this mean I can piss my money away on expensive clothes?

I meant "marker".

lol Good God that's going to be me isn't it!!

I'd be mortified to use it in public - we got kittens who were/still are house cats and was all PFB about letting them wander the neighbourhood front road that's like Silverstone

Ohh yesss loving the taxidermied animal thing - am undecided on getting a baddly stuffed/matted badger or a whole carp fish with display case...

echt - am glad you mentioned the hair and the lipstick - was worried your DD thought your dress sense was similar i.e. see through dress and commando combo!

There is a very eccentric lady who lives in a village near me. She is well into her late 60s, has a hot toyboy in his 20s and behaves disgracefully. Give me another 25 years and I will be that disgraceful old lady.

i'm going to keep a man in the shed.

a buff one, natch.

There is a woman near to me who for one whole season only wears one colour.Winter this year was green. She had green shoes, socks, trousers, coat, hat, scarf, gloves, handbag-everything! Now since the first of Feb, she is all in sickly baby pink. :)
I might try something like that. Maybe announce loudly on a bus or somewhere else suitably public that everything I'm wearing also matches the colour du jour.

I do like the man-in-a-shed idea

i'm loving the colour for a season!

but i might also invest in a sex swing.

My grandmother has begun to drink and swear a lot more now that she's in her 70's, and loudly disapprove of everyone.

I must say I like the cut of her jib.

My eccentric father prides himself on startling the neighbours with his outfits, particularly heading out sporting a wide brimmed hat, Victorian Policemans cape and silver topped cane. He lives in the heart of genteel Home Counties and quite enjoys a subtle two fingers to the conformity of most suburban England.

He has also grown an Amish style beard like this primarily to piss of my mother

Am loving the single colour season. Will definitely do that.
My friends and I have already decided that we are setting up our own old folks home. We'll be in charge of hiring and firing - none of these sickly nurses treating us like kids and telling us what's good for us. It will be bang in the middle of a cosmopolitan area so we can go for a jaunt on our motorised scooters every morning for a decent coffee and every evening for a good dinner and lots of wine.
Gin O'clock will be ruthlessly enforced. As will champagne every day of the week containing the letters D, A and Y. There will be no basket weaving or craft classes. Anyone calling us "Dear" will be sacked instantly. I feel there will be a long waiting list.

Sign me up Nun!

I am still working on my eccentricity plan, but it will include gin o'clock, many cats and copious amounts of jewellery worn all the time.

We have local bearded lady who also wears the fur coats and much lippy, do we live in the same place or are they breeding?

I am planning to have many cats specifically Maine coon and Ginger ones that's my idea of bliss. dh will have to move out, he hates cats.bit tame compared to some of these tho

haha....not sure yet, but I'm sure there will be one!

I am going to base myself on Jenny Joseph poem-'when I am an oldwoman I shall wear purple'-I'm really looking forward to it!

I think I have already begun. This week I gave money to two 'tramps' in my village. They weren't tramps - just too scruffy and very bemused men.

I have a cat. I dote on my chickens.

Now to learn to fart with every step (I do like that one) to pinch young men's bottoms and be rude/blunt whenever the feeling takes me.

Bliss.

Nun, can I come and live in your home now?

I'm getting swearier as I get older, so by the time I'm eighty I'll hopefully be a total potty mouth.

This will be handy if the kids shove me in a home where a 22 year old girl who hates her job will try to tell me I love custard and Countdown, and will call me 'love'.

In fact, I might be violent by then, as well...

My DCs think I have started so I don't think that I can shock them as much as I wish!

I've already told dd1 that when I'm old I expect to be able to turn up on any of my dcs doorsteps, case and tena lady in hand with cats following and be able to stay for a few years days. I will feed any wandering small children copious amounts of chocolate and sweets and it will be gin oclock all day so I will be unable to contribute anything vaguely useful to the household apart from the odd 'wiff of wee' perfume. I will cheerfully recount daily to anyone who will listen how bad the buses are locally and how infrequently they run now and how the young whippersnapper of a driver won't help me on with my shopping trolley full of gin