I'm not saying my family is eccentric but......

You'd think parents of boys would think very carefully - it's more difficult for girls unless they keep their maiden name!

Thank you for the holly Galen - there are lots of berries this year I notice

Loved it. Made me chuckle. Need more stories like this.

I love this thread. It has always been my ambition to be eccentric and I hope I am on the way. I wear a pink Monster High hat when I'm out. I argue with cash machines and I sing (or dance) along to buskers. I played hopscotch on the paving stones with my DGD the other week but it nearly did my back in! For Halloween I dressed in black with a sparkly spider web cloak, a pink wig and a giant spider hat. (A few trick or treaters who knocked at the door were a little hesitant I must say.)

I might draw the line at onesies. As previously commented - toilet problems - and I have to get there a little more quickly these days. Is that too much information?!

Thirty years ago I remember my eldest saying to me when I collected
her from school...'mother why can't you dress like the other mums?' Now she is heading for 40 she doesn't mind my eccentric style...grins

Long live eccentricity is what I say

Oh dear, round here the trees go up so early there's going to be a shortage of reindeers very soon, and the elves will all be demanding overtime. I always thought 12th night was 6th Jan. Once upon a time schools never went back until after that date and some people always went to church because it's Epiphany- when the 3 kings arrived to visit Jesus.

It's the 6th in my book too, trisher! But as Ana says, we have the discussion every year

The 6th here, too. It's the Epiphany and in some other countries that's when the presents are exchanged. Decorations always had to be taken down on the 5 th before going to bed so that they would no longer be there on the 6 th.