Are you a YAPPY?

Tupperware, tweed and tea! Are you a YAPPY? A Young Aged Pensioner? It's the start of national knitting week this weekend, and apparently knitting is the in-thing with some of the trendy young-folk out there, along with pensioner parties where you dress up as your grandparents and drink tea with your mates whilst eating meat-paste sandwiches.

Lisa thinks she qualifies as a YAPPY as apparently she's quite keen on ballroom dancing (who’d have guessed?) whilst Johnny looks good in a tweedy peaked cap.

We want to know what you do that qualifies you as a Young Aged Pensioner - a YAPPY - to kick you off, here are a few suggestions from the Capital office, add your own in the comments section below:

 

• You don’t leave the house without your push-along shopping trolley.
• You have arguements with your friends about how much something on Antiques Roadshow is going to be valued at.
• You daydream about tucking into a delicious Fray Bentos pie at the end of the day.
• You spend your time fantasising about what you'd spend your winter fuel allowance on - a new pair of slippers perhaps or maybe a blanket for your dog.
• You head home early from the pub, not to watch the match but to watch Strictly Come Dancing.
• You’ve swapped Marlboroughs for pipe smoking.
• You’ve swapped sexy underwear for something a lot more substantial from the Damart catalogue.
• Bovril is your hot drink of choice.
• You get your mates together for a nice game of bowls.
• Songs of Praise has replaced T4 as essential viewing on a Sunday.
• The neighbours bang on the wall because you keep them up at night with the noise of knitting needles clacking together.
• You think the Jingle Bell Ball is a medical complaint.
• Your main source of news is The Chap .
• You find decimal currency confusing – why can’t we return to pounds, shillings and groats?

And these are some the texts you've sent in so far:

• Credit crunch forced me to sell sporty car for brit racing green rover saloon-bought from a 75 year old pensioner. I'm 29. It ever has a world war 2 raf survivors' badge on the front. Makes me proud to be british. Rob
• Hi Jonny & Lisa. My dream is to own a Zip up slipper, quilted dressing gown and a heated blanket. Why should all the oldies have all the fun? Chris from Sutton.
• Hi my son of 23 only drinks tea made in a pot & must have a cup & saucer has also bought all the family cardigans. Allison from sunny Ashtead.
• i like 2 have morning coffee at 11, afternoon tea at 4, i use a beanbag tray to eat off, when i get in from work i change into my slippers and a warm jumper, & watch tv with a blanket over my legs while i sew. CharmIAn in great missenden.
• Morning johnny, lisa and the gang, keeping in with your yappie theme, just thought that i would let you know that i have been wearing a Twead flat cap for a few years now and i often say when i was young and i am 22 but i am a city farmer :) cheers tom
• Hi my daughter zoe is 18 and she loves to play crib especially wiv her friend geoff who is 83 and was in the navy in the war cheers jenny from otford
• My other half gardens in his slippers, he also wears them when he goes to the shop for his paper! Lorna in Amersham...
• I have a piece of wood i use specifically to stir paint. Is that yapy ?
• My yappie trait has to be drinking 'snowballs' love em. Lizzie x
• Hey johnny and lisa, i have 2 allotments, and take my own tea bags with me where ever i go. :-) claire, croydon. X
• I reuse tin foil, obviously washing it first. Jenny- Pinner
• There is nothing I like more of a sunday evening than to go to bed early with a nice cup of horlicks and a n oatcake. pete 
• Hi gang.my 17 year old son,joe birss,is nicknamed grandad joe.he has a pocket watch and a hipflask.he listens 2 doris day and dean martin.he's never worn a hoodie,just zip up knitted, patternd cardies!but i lov him any way! Di in binfield x 
• My yapy trait is mowing the lawn on a sunday. I like to stop get my stool out the shed and have a salmon sandwich half way through the job. Bit o rest. From frazer.
• Yes i'm a yappie i'm 36 in nov and i've been doing tapestry for at least 5 years i love it. From Lynn on the way to work.

If you think you're a YAPPY let us know why in the comments section below: