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vallaw | 21:53 Sat 27th Aug 2011 | Family & Relationships
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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?
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Avatar Image shaneystar2
Hahaa..I'm a great aunt .Numerous times over and I'm only ...err.......
Just be yourself :)
21:54 Sat 27th Aug 2011
Avatar Image DaisyNonna
Just practise your cuddling! A teensy bit of eccentricity is allowable.
21:57 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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Just be yourself, Vallaw!
21:58 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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Ha! There is only one Maggie Smith!
22:29 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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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.
22:30 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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I'm a great great aunt as well :)
I have 18 nieces and nephews .
But I draw the line at lavender and old lace :)
22:32 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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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)
22:35 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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Will never be any kind of aunt. No siblings. It would have been lovely.
22:36 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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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.
22:58 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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What were the perfumed sweets that a great aunt ate?
23:01 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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I dunno Daisynonna
It's ever so slightly embarassing when your 50 year old nephew yells out
Yoohoo Aunty J.... in the High Street :)
23:01 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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perfumed sweets - Phul Nana?
23:02 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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cachous ?
23:05 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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Cashous or something Sandy ?
Devon Floral Cashous
23:06 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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>>>"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 ;-)
23:07 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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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!
23:08 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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parma violets ?
23:08 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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It could have been cachous. She had them in a tin. This was a long time ago.
23:09 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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[standing on what little dignity is left] Thank you for your contribution, Buenchico. (sob)
23:10 Sat 27th Aug 2011
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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?
23:13 Sat 27th Aug 2011

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