Definition of a 'Spinster'

My very first RANT!  (OK it’s my 2^nd cos I had a bit of a rant about cauliflowers yesterday).

Definition of a spinster, as defined by the ‘Oxford Concise Dictionary’:

‘Unmarried woman; elderly, woman thought unlikely to marry.’

I am a ‘spinster’ though to be honest I wouldn’t consider myself to be elderly??!!  I wouldn’t consider myself to be ‘unmarriable’.

Sooooooooooo this was going to be my first rant!

This BLOG was going to be soooooo organised and well structured?!!!!  But that was before I bought a couple of cauliflowers.  See yesterdays BLOG!!!

Anyway does anyone else absolutely HATE, HATE, HATE, the word ‘SPINSTER’???  I really do not look on myself as being an ‘elderly woman thought unlikely to marry’!!!!

If I wanted to get married I would.  I’d just log onto one of the numerous dating websites, find myself a man and waltz off down the aisle.

In this day & age finding a man is not difficult – even for an ‘elderly woman’ of my age?!  May be I’m unusual but I’ve never had a problem finding a man?!  Finding a man I want to be with – well that’s a completely different question??

However, I’m a happily single ‘spinster’.

Still doesn’t stop me ranting though!

‘SPINSTER’ must be one of the most horrible words in the English language??!!

It conjures up images of some ugly old woman, sitting alone with a cat, knitting, drinking tea, wearing tweed skirts and home knitted cardis, never having had sex, never having kissed a man, never having held hands with a man.  Never having done anything apart from live with her mother and go to church.

So why have I called this BLOG – ‘Rantings of a middle aged spinster’????

..............Because I guess that’s what I am.  LOL!!!!

PS – I’m not ugly, I don’t have a cat, I don’t wear tweed skirts and home knitted cardi’s & I’ve had loads of sex in the last 54 years.  I’ve also done a lot of kissing, held hands & had sexual contact (I’m admitting it now; so no need to go on the ‘Jeremy Kyle Show’ for a lie detector??!!)  My mother is dead so I don’t live with her and the last time I went to church was ....................... I can’t remember ...............  Oh yes – it was my father’s funeral in October 2002!