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  • monnagran
    monnagran Posts: 5,284 Forumite
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    Hi,

    I think we ought to have a massive get together and scare the rest of the population rigid.

    I'm also short, fat and old, usually dressed in purple trousers (yes I am old and yes, I do wear purple,), Orange fleece, blue shoes, (well worn) and a scarlet scarf. It's my capsule wardrobe.

    I may be hugging a weeping woman who has just cast herself into my arms by the magazine counter in the Co-op, looking a bit amazed as she is a complete stranger - it happens, right? Or I could be hugging a very drunk rough sleeper - from the Drop-in I help at. I do a lot of hugging.

    I will almost certainly be gazing into the middle distance with a bemuzed expression wondering where I have left my handbag, where I have been, where I am going and what for.
    Absolutely no use you wearing a safety pin or anything smaller than a complete diving-suit, I'll never notice you.
    I may have a small Austistic boy with me and we will be wandering contentedly about looking in Estate Agents windows for a house we fancy. He is my grandson. I am his Gran and he calls me Monna. Geddit?
    I believe that friends are quiet angels
    Who lift us to our feet when our wings
    Have trouble remembering how to fly.
  • OrkneyStar
    OrkneyStar Posts: 7,025 Forumite
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    miecherox wrote: »
    Just for fun what things might make us recognise you? Can be old style or not I'll start it off...
    Always wearing something knitted or crocheted (or actually knitting/crocheting), often carrying food with yellow/orange reduced stickers, often with a bag full of new/nearly new things from charity shop, often scanning floor for pennies (DS does this too), watching the mpg gauge on the car, checking the bottom shelf of the supermarket for value things, wearing 10 cardies instead of putting heating on, in the library borrowing free books to read........;)
    Ermutigung wirkt immer besser als Verurteilung.
    Encouragement always works better than judgement.

  • building_with_lego
    building_with_lego Posts: 2,609 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper I've been Money Tipped!
    edited 1 February 2012 at 5:20PM
    Well, that wouldn't be very mse! But nest time you stain somehting you love, or tear it....:D

    Ah, well, it'd be a bit MSE as they'd all come from the charity shop! I see such beautiful dresses and skirts but am firmly a jeans and tshirt girl. I think I may just let a dress find me... :p
    They call me Dr Worm... I'm interested in things; I'm not a real doctor but I am a real worm. :grin:
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Ah, well, it'd be a bit MSE as they'd all come from the charity shop! I see such beautiful dresses and skirts but am firmly a jeans and tshirt girl. I think I may just let a dress find me... :p

    Why not. Change for supper and a tv/ mse night. It feels good to dress up. Although, my favourite house evening dress is a very plain black one...so not too dressy.:D
  • I too am short and quite possibly as round as i am tall. I'm a bit like a christmas pudding with legs :rotfl:. I have to dye my hair or else it would look like my Dad and i were brothers! I don't wear make up, it irritates my skin. I am found in supermarkets usually with one if not both of my daughters, usually moaning about how the prices have gone up since the week before.
    When in the car i'm usually tapping a beat on the steering wheel whilst singing. It cheers me up.
    FS
    Jan GC £298.62/£300 Feb £298.01/£300 March £331.06/£300 April £69.96/£300
    Learning to accept the things i cannot change
  • PipneyJane
    PipneyJane Posts: 4,652 Forumite
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    Great thread!

    I'm the 5ft 4 inch, 40-something brunette with long curly hair usually found knitting and frequently the only woman in a large party of men. (I like football, RPGs and rock music and work in a male dominated environment.) I'll either be dressed booted-and-suited in Office Smart / occasionally in a hard-hat, safety boots and overalls wandering around a building site/ jeans-and-a-jumper / (rarely) dressed up to nines and enjoying the stunned expressions on my male friends faces, since they tend to forget I'm a woman after a while even though I wear makeup and perfume to work.

    I'm the one stray cats and dogs come up to in the street to say hello to.
    "Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'

    It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!

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  • Cat501
    Cat501 Posts: 1,195 Forumite
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    PipneyJane wrote: »
    Great thread!

    I'm the 5ft 4 inch, 40-something brunette with long curly hair usually found knitting and frequently the only woman in a large party of men. (I like football, RPGs and rock music and work in a male dominated environment.)

    I just had to ask one of DD's friends what an RPG was. I sincerely hope you meant Role Playing Games and not Rocket-Propelled Grenades:D
  • Dazi
    Dazi Posts: 1,354 Forumite
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    I am short, not that round but a bit rounder than I was this time last year. Hair colour....that depends, ranges from dark red/plum to blonde but never it's natural grey :D

    At the moment I tend to look sleepy all the time, combination of winter and life!

    Often pulling a pink wally trolly with fluffy cows on it, love it to bits.

    Am usually found in the library at least once a fortnight, CS whenever we have the time at the weekend, oh and rummaging in the reduced bin at Aldi quite often too.

    If I am plugged into my mp3 player I could be listening to anything from music from musicals, meatloaf, motown, garage, hip hop and dolly parton lol

    Oh and I will be talking to strangers, even if they don't want to talk back lol, lived in this town for 4 years now and still only know my OH, work mates and his ex :eek: that is why I talk to strangers :rotfl:although I am meeting new people through my burlesque classes.....oh did I not mention them?
    whoever said laughter was the best medicine has clearly never tasted wine

    Stopped smoking 20:30 28/09/11 :D
  • bearcub
    bearcub Posts: 1,023 Forumite
    Cat501 wrote: »
    I just had to ask one of DD's friends what an RPG was. I sincerely hope you meant Role Playing Games and not Rocket-Propelled Grenades:D


    :rotfl:

    Don't know about 'expressive dressers', lostinrates. I seem to be permanently in jods and hay and hair-covered fleece, or jeans. The first expresses what I spend a lot of time doing, I suppose. :cool:
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    I am trying to picture all of us on this thread at a 'meet'! and I can envisage a gathering of mostly middle-aged to elderly women attired in black, wearing biker boots - some of whom are pulling a shopping trolley, with a sprinkling of smartly attired women and one wearing full evening regalia (with hay in her hair). Now that would be a sight to behold! but, we would all get on famously I think!
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