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Having just spent a week on holiday with my grandchildren and great niece and nephew. I am pleased to report that my 12 year old grand daughter calls me 'weird', and 'freak' quite a lot :-D

.......but also likes spending time with me :-D :-D :-D

Six year old grandson has had issues on how to respond to granny, but has decided 'please' and 'thank you', work well, and not commenting on the (fake) moustache is a good ploy :-D :-D

I have only ever had my mums dad and dads mum. My dads mum is in her eighties and has always been a little a cold and standoffish never one for showing her emotions. My grandad died in 1978 when my granny was only 52. I will always remember going to visit her a few years ago on her birthday and for the first time ever she said Tawny you know I love you. I will treasure that visit to see my gran. My mums dad raised my mum and her younger brother alone from when my mum was 7. We never got to see him more than two or three times a year due to the fact that he lived 300 miles away. My grandad was a very warm and caring person who never missed a chance to hug us or tell us we were loved. He was very good at woodwork and made my siblings and me a Dolls House, Ferris wheel and a Fire Engine amongst other things. He died in 2010 but I still miss him everyday.

here is just another tale about my Grandma,

during the day she rolled her stockings round down her ankles and had few metal curlers in her hair,,,when tea was cooking she used to spruce herself up ready for grandad coming in from work,,,,,she always made herself look nice for him, and took off her wrap round pinny,,,,,,, :-D and he always had the first serving,,,,.I loved it when he had fried bacon on a Saturday as grandma used to fry a hunk of bread in the fat for me,,,,,tasted lovely.and if I was lucky grandad gave me a mushroom or some of his bacon,,,,,,,,, :-D.


Hayley..... <3

Well BC we know you have left many happy memories about you as a Grandma for your little ones,,,,,so maybe one day they too may have web slot to reveal all about you.,warts and all...... ;-) :-D :-D.

BC will always be there in your heart Hayley <3 <3

Hayley <3

Twice this week I have lifted the phone to ring her rushing to share my news and then stop before I dial still cant believe she isnt here :-(

It was nice to see BC on the boards
gone but by no way forgotten xx <3 <3

I've enjoyed reading this thread too, even thought I cannot remember posting on it.

Kay, I know what you mean <3

It was odd the way this thread came about in 2013 when I found it again and BC had just been thinking about her grandma that day ,,,,,and again today,,,,,,,spooky,,,,, ;-),,,BC has been casting again,,,,,,,
:-D :-D.

Where did lots of the names go.?

Lovely to read this thread again <3 :-)

you know BCs family are so lovely friendly and kind
you just want to hug them all

so grandma cant of done them any harm in the long run :-D :-D

Hi Suzy, I am sure BC would have been thrilled to see you return on one of her threads. Loved her stories about her Grandma, a formidable lady by all accounts.

Oh my gosh how lovely reading this thread again, cant believe how long ago this was started .

Hi Suzy nice to see you . Yes a great sadness to read of BC,s passing ,a really lovely lady

Enjoyed reading through this...............Its been a long time, but Hello to all who remembers me. :-)

May I also add that it was a great shock to hear of BC's passing. I loved her, as did my son on our first meeting. :(

Both my Grandmothers were lovely. My Dad's mum was 20 years older than my Mam's, and my Dad's oldest sister was the same age - they were good friends.

Both my grandmas were cuddly and very maternal....My paternal gran had 13 children and maternal gran had 6 children....My maternal gran had been divorced and had one child before she met my grandad...It wasn't until I started family research that I discovered they met in 1945 and didnt marry until 1955 after having 5 chiildren..Even their own children didnt know this!!! Grandma died in 1992 when I was 4 mths pregnant with my daughter and her funeral was on my birthday...
My paternal grandma I didnt see much as we lived in Sussex and she in Hampshire...We used to go on the train every couple of mths to see them....Grandad was very strict and stood no nonsense but he was cuddly too...Grandma died in 2001 when I was 35.....I guess im lucky really as I have known both sets of grandparents.....
I also met my maternal gt gran but was only 6mths old when she died...My dad said she would just turn up at the flat and wanted nothing better than to cuddle me and my sister who would have been 18mths old when she died...

Jules x

My grandma on my mum's side died before I knew her, bred to death 17
kids married to a drunkard, mum left home when she was 14.
My dad's mum was a horrible woman who did not treat my mum well,
thought she wasn't good enough for her son, she was proven wrong they
lived a happy and long life together. :-)

Emma :-)

I have enjoyed reading al your stories very much.

My biggest regret in life is that I have no direct grandchildren of my own. I have 4 grown up step grandaughters, 3 who I have known and loved since they were born.

They already have their granma,s and I have often felt a little bit out of it. Anyway I have tried to do my best and they know I will always be there for them.

Sorry if this is out of context to the thread but when" Granny " comes up I cant help but wish with all my heart that I was a true Nan.

Oops pass me tissues :-D :-D

My Mum was the youngest of nine but of those children there were only, when I was born, 6 grandchildren all older than me. Mum's Mum was cuddly, she used to make me soup with pearl barley in and would keep extra strong mints in her glass fronted cupboard by the range, these she would give me when we visited. She and my grandfather were not very well off. She died when I was four or five and I can remember my Grandpa crying when we all went to visit the grave.
My Dad's mum was quite religious, a Baptist. She loved her church, she was widowed before I was born and she also was quite poor. She lived with a distant relative of my Grandfathers as a companion. She was lovely, kind, gentle and approachable but not cuddly, she died a month after we got married.

Thank you one and all for adding to this thread. Such sharp, vivid memories and mostly good :-D

I discovered my own Grandma was forced into a marriage with a much older man and her way of dealing with her unhappiness was to spend all is his money and behave the way she did.

BC XX