"Oh my giddy aunt"

[Bbbananas]

Does anyone have an aunt that's giddy?
I had two - sisters Nellie and Glad. By Gad, were they giddy or what? They put the iddy into giddy. And Nellie left me a lovely ruby ring which I polish regularly....

[AB Editor]

Not a Giddy Aunt, but Syd Barret had a Gigglo Aunt it seems?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDorxMGyX8

[ummmm]

He's a legend :-)

[AB Editor]

Another for you: Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smVYvnnqewA

Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant

[Bbbananas]

Effervescing Elephant - what a wonderful expression.

[mccfluff]

my aunty carol's a bit giddy or maybe just mad

[Barmaid]

My sister's ex had a right nutter for an aunt. At their wedding she was flashing her lils at everyone. My father's face was an absolute picture!

[rowanwitch]

Aunt Het, Aunt Win.. Aunt May actually she wasn't so much giddy as a black sheep...wonderful woman...still had 'boyfriends and lodgers' into her eighties

[Bbbananas]

'lodgers'.... I'm thinking of getting one. A nice young medical student. ;-)

[rowanwitch]

Hers tended to be sprightly old lechers from the local pub.....She had a number of husbands too... I am not sure if it was three or four

[Bbbananas]

I'm only on number 2 & a half... and I don't believe in 3rd time lucky. Although, never say never.
However, 'lodgers' don't count. Do they?

[rinkins]

Not a giddy Aunt, but a nutty Nan - does that count?!!!!

[thetruthhurts]

ED I am impressed! Syd Barrett was a god! A complete loony, but, a god all the same.

[Bbbananas]

For you rinks, of course.....!

Nice to hear from you, to hear from you nice x

[rowanwitch]

Giddy or otherwise eccentric, odd or interesting elderly female relatives sounds a little long winded though...

[rinkins]

Ta salla :0) She phoned me again the other day to ask for my phone number...

[merciasounds]

My aunt May - fearless, she's 85 now. Went 'wing walking' at 70, climbed to base camp on mount Everest at 72, Flew to australia and stayed with some aborigini's in the outback at 73. At the Boy Scouts jamborees she still teaches rope tying and knots, organises the games and does the BBQ - she doesn't look a day over 60, she's as strong as an ox for one so small, and when one bloke pushed past her in the Post Office the other week, she thought nothing of jabbing him in the rear with her walking stick and remonstrated with him that he could have knocked her over! She's priceless when she's had a drop of sherry or a large vodka and tonic - 'not too much tonic dear, don't want to drown it - eugh, drowned, pass me the bottle!' her stories are an absolute scream - I keep telling her to write a book - she says to me, 'all in good time dear, haven't finished living yet!'.

[Bbbananas]

She sounds absolutely fabulous Mercia. Good ol' gel....

[Greedyfly]

Wish I had someone like that in my family!

[rowanwitch]

Tie her down so she does tell her story....if you wait until she is ready she never will be... What a role model to have....

[Bbbananas]

A bit like my (sadly deceased) Nanna Woodie who I have mentioned on here before. She loved a crafty fag with her whiskey (though never learned to inhale). She always got her words mixed up & told everyone that she was bisexual (she meant ambidextrous). She was fab.