Gransnet?

Butty you won't be lonely when you come back to the UK, you already have loads of people who have offered you somewhere to stay while you house hunt.

Yes! We are waiting, Butty!

The sooner, the better, Butty

Yes, I can't wait. Just have to get this house sold!

I hate blue Sundays.

Ella 46

Found this on the introduction

What if I'm not a grandmother?

We have a shed for grandads (though we don't insist they stay in there) and lots of topics that are of interest to a wide range of people. So, while the overwhelming majority of our members are grandmothers, we pride ourselves on our inclusiveness.

I'm single too but have lots of hon. grandchildren hope I can stay as I like it here

Bruha I don't know why you are asking me.
As long as you are happy on here we're happy to have you.

Ella46 it was your reply to Skybluepink or am I missing something

Yes, but I wasn't objecting to non grandparents, I just wondered if she might prefer a different forum.
Sky said she didn't like the name.........

I think Skybluepink should go and join The Flat Earth Society. I think she would be more at home there.

You could be a Gran at 32, given the present age of consent of 16, and at an even younger age if your grandchild was born to a "gymslip mum"

I can't see GNHQ changing the name anyway. It is too well entrenched in its original name.

And there's nothing wrong with it either…

I may have missed something but I don't see how you can join something like the All-England Tennis Association and complain that it doesn't include football players in Abu Dhabi or for that matter Gransnet but don't like the name

I agree with you absent - there's nothing wrong with it.

I had a patient who was a gran at 30 her mother and gran were still alive!

DH's grandmother had GC in their 50s when she died.

What a daft thread this is - I read through a couple of pages and then lost the will..'Gransnet' is a great name - it does what it says on the tin. If it was called 'Silversurfers' for instance, I would never have even looked at it. Leave it alone and stop wasting the forum space.

speck...Yay!

I agree, sometimes i have felt that my friend was not right but then she had visited so many old people in those days, and it goes without saying that there would be exceptions. There are some nasty old people who get visitors. Then there are old people who really don't want to be bothered with others as you see some times on the BBC 'Heirhunters' very often pride or being offended started them off and they couldn't back track.

That is such a sad programme! So many people with no family or no-one they are still in contact with.

I read the phrase Nothing wrong with it - I think we should rephrase that and say there is everything right with it; it does what it says - welcome Grans [and that doesn't specify gran -dads, or gran - mothers] and it doesn't say Old Grans or Young Grans, Rich Grans, Poor Grans, Criminal Grans blah blah. It's a simple word that covers us all; we are all different, all have something to say and welcome anyone who wants to read. If someone wants something different go invent your own.

Sensible comment there, Nanban.

Nanban I agree that the name Gransnet does what it says which is provides an internet forum for grans (which can be read as both sexes). While the forum itself is welcoming to all kinds of grandparents and also people of the same sort of age range – although I'm not too sure how welcome criminal grans are but then I don't actually know of any on Gransnet – the name Gransnet remains entirely neutral. Better that way, I think.

You think a criminal gran would admit it, absent?

Aahhhh! Criminal....if you take a look at offences committed over the course of many years, there are probably many of us who would/could be described as 'criminal.' One of the first training exercised a student probation officer participates in is to help to cover a sheet of flipchart with the names of offences they know about e.g. shop theft, common assault, driving without insurance, driving under the influence, criminal damage, arson, harassment, benefit fraud, theft from employer, drug possession and so on....

It's surprsing how many we might have done ourselves. I've got three on there, undetected so no convictions. Any other criminals like me???

watch me get expelled from Gransnet now!

I did take a handful of paperclips from the office once, when - oh, and now you mention it, did drive (very probably) under the influence of alcohol in the small hours of one night when I had THE phone call that my daughter was in labour. I'd had a couple of drinks, gone to bed, and hadn't given it a second thought when I jumped in the car to go to her!