Great Aunts

[vallaw]

Have recently learnt that I will become one in the next 6 months. Should I practise being dignified and intimidating or just stick to what I know?

[shaneystar2]

Hahaa..I'm a great aunt .Numerous times over and I'm only ...err.......
Just be yourself :)

[DaisyNonna]

Just practise your cuddling! A teensy bit of eccentricity is allowable.

[Euphemia]

Just be yourself, Vallaw!

[mjwman]

Ha! There is only one Maggie Smith!

[vallaw]

I am well practised at being an aunt - 6 times over. 3 nieces, 3 nephews. But this is the first time the next generation has got it together! Probably just as well I have no kids myself.

[shaneystar2]

I'm a great great aunt as well :)
I have 18 nieces and nephews .
But I draw the line at lavender and old lace :)

[annie0000]

I've been a great aunt since I was 37 and now have 4 great nephews and 2 great nieces just 8 years later. Just stick to what you know, :o)

[DaisyNonna]

Will never be any kind of aunt. No siblings. It would have been lovely.

[vallaw]

I really don't think I can do lavender and old lace either - but I can knit and suspect I will do something embarrassing in the bootee region. Beats knitting hats for Innocent smoothies.

[sandyRoe]

What were the perfumed sweets that a great aunt ate?

[shaneystar2]

I dunno Daisynonna
It's ever so slightly embarassing when your 50 year old nephew yells out
Yoohoo Aunty J.... in the High Street :)

[vallaw]

perfumed sweets - Phul Nana?

[ladyalex]

cachous ?

[shaneystar2]

Cashous or something Sandy ?
Devon Floral Cashous

[Buenchico]

>>>"Should I practise being dignified. . ."<<<

Sorry, Vallaw, but there are some things which (however hard you practise) you'll probably never be able to achieve ;-)

[vallaw]

Phul Nana, if I remember right, were violet-scented cachous in a little tin with an Aubrey Beardsley-esque reclining female - those were the days!

[ladyalex]

parma violets ?

[sandyRoe]

It could have been cachous. She had them in a tin. This was a long time ago.

[vallaw]

[standing on what little dignity is left] Thank you for your contribution, Buenchico. (sob)

[Buenchico]

Look at it another way, Vallaw.

Your alternative to 'practising' was to stick to what you know. You can't get better than perfect, can you?