Gestures, come on, admit that you use them!

Sorry Phoenix but I have never done this, ever! Not fibbing and not weird ( much )
Looking for marigolds?

No nor me, never walk round with my hands making shapes Perhaps you are unique Phoenix and no idea what you are looking for ...Cook book ? Can’t say I ve seen anyone else doing it either ?

I do know people who 'talk' with their hands - some of them in my family! Perhaps I should check to see if I do it as well.

Surely you must have done the scissor thing? I thought everyone's did that

"Everyone" damn tablet!

Oven tray?

I use a similar gesture when trying to explain how wide something is.
By moving hands (as you have described) apart or towards each other --sounds a clear as mud--

Oven gloves ?
I use gesture all the time

Could be gloves but I don't do gestures. My sister does and has just almost broken a cut glass bowl here in my house with her overactive hands.
She made me very nervous.

Well done Maybelle! Oven gloves is exactly right, and so very glad it isn't only me!

When finished with them, I put them on the handle of the oven, Mr P however will often put them on the back of a chair!

As I had a profoundly dead parent I have always talked with my hands to aid his lip reading (useful now DH has hearing problems, as apparently I often mutter!).

Amazing how over the years you update.
for example telephone ☎ has gone from hand clenched fist action over the ear to the updated thumb and pinky finger spread over ear.

So yes Phoenix I often do the scissor thing✂ and the book thing and use fingers to represent going upstairs etc etc.

But as I often forget words it has come in quite useful.
added in few 'thingymejigs and whatnots'

" I had a profoundly dead parent " - oooh, Cherrytree59, what a typo! Shame there is no edit button, but always a good idea to preview message before you post!

As I had a profoundly dead parent I have always talked with my hands to aid his lip reading

I trust that was a typo Cherrytree

Sorry, I realise that's in appalling taste but I couldn't resist.
And no, I never use gestures, except perhaps pointing two fingers forward simultaneously to indicate to DGC that it's time to stop messing and get out of the front door NOW

Both my parents are profoundly dead now. It's better than only being slightly dead I suppose.

Didn’t think you meant this sort of gesture. The way my mind works.

Don't think I ever use gestures - it sounds very flamboyant - and I'm not ?

And me Alima,

I think gestures are fascinating. I have a particular way of putting on a coat which is exactly the same ( apparently) as a relative I never met.

My sons and my niece spend no time together and yet I observe the same gestures. Also the cultural differences in gestures are so interesting.

DH wanted be to buy something in Tesco but for a moment couldn't remember what they were called. So he made a circular motion with his index finger pointing downwards.

Yorkshire puddings !!!!!

Oh I gesture a lot too and so does my DH - he always does this little scribble in mid air, a mime for writing, instead of asking for the bill.
I can't talk about anything/anyone upstairs without pointing upwards ??

I've just realised that I asked DH if he wanted a glass of , at the same time tipping my right hand as if drinking …..

If I'm in the garden and MrA is wondering if I'd like a cup of tea, he comes to the window and makes a 'T' sign with his two index fingers.
Not that he needs to ask, really

With me it's more verbal. "Glasses! Glasses! Anyone seen my glasses?" Whereupon husband helpfully proceeds to turn the place upside down.

I do the tipping sign - so it could be or or even cider or beer!

Although I do make a drinking from cup gesture to get DH in from shed for his coffee.