... to think the gifts received by GCs are way toooo expensive and sophisticated ...

I need chocolate

Not even as "double" as all that I am afraid.
Nut ? as in (Cadbury's ) "fruit and nutcase"

Like Roses I'm very naive and miss out on double-entendres. All those 'as the actress said to the bishop' jokes go over my head, and have to be explained.

Really? Nuts are nuts surely? What else? ( I lead a very sheltered life.)

I thought (unworthily) that a different interpretation was being drawn from "nuts"!
Apologies!

You've confused me Daphne I was referring to someone rushing to judgment when they are unaware of the full situation.

And why the blush? What am I missing (nothing new there)

Simplest gifts give the greatest pleasure, I find. I bought two mugs with recipes on them for making cakes in the microwave. Cue mass adjournment of all GC to the kitchen to try it out. GS2(11), an excitable child, was happiest doing a 3D jigsaw of the Eiffel Tower, with me, sorting out the numbered pieces for him. I could no more put the pieces together than build the real thing, but he is brilliant at this type of activity. So I would agree that elaborate gifts probably have more to do with the parents' egos or, parental guilt over not being able to give enough time to their kids. Sadly, time is the present some parents can't spare.

- Eee gj lass - you certainly know how to put your foot in it!

How were you interpreting "nuts", Anya?

Fools rush in?

not even with a handful of nuts.
Happy days!

Did you read that story about Hatchimals? Apparently, some of them are not hatching quickly enough and parents are having to perform "casareans" on them and some come out spouting obscenities; effing this that and the other. You never got that problem with and orange and an annual.

Maybe Ankers is Ann Kerr in RL.

No problem.

Sorry, Ankers. Anker is a Scandinavian male first name. That's why I assumed you were a man.

Plus ça change.......Ana

granjura and I had one of our usual spats on the same evening she started the thread - we just don't see eye to eye and have entirely different ways of expressing ourselves.

Since then I haven't responded to any of her other posts.

If she has a complaint against me and/or other posters, she is welcome 'report' it to GNHQ. I can only assume she has flounced (yet again) because not enough people were agreeing with her. Ankers, of course, may think she knows differently...

????

DaphneBroon I'm getting a real spooky feeling now: first we had collecting information and now we have she is the only one who has the true full picture
This is beginning to sound far too familiar.

What "true full picture" would that be Ankers??

granjura wouldnt need help from anyone. She is the only one who knows the true full picture.

Ankers I don't know how long you've been on gransnet, but the idea of a group of posters accumulating information and running to GNHQ with it in the hope that the moderators will take some sort of action against the posters who are perceived to have hurt someone's feelings, will lead to accusations of clique-forming, victimisation, sneaking to the teacher, and playground politics.
We've seen it all before.

I'm sure gj will be back as we need updates on Minou.

I just googled to see what a very rich little girl may have had for Christmas - sorry, it is in the Daily Mail, you need not look if you object!

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4063692/Tamara-Ecclestone-s-daughter-Sophia-giddy-glee-spends-quality-time-granddad-Bernie-Switzerland-family-ski-trip.html

All this very rich little girl seems to want is a stuffed toy leopard such as many children may have had for Christmas - and some quality time with Grandad

They would have to ignore it in this case though, as it simply isn't true.In any case, I expect that gj will be back sometime soon, even if not on this thread.
I don't agree with the thread title at all , there are no doubt some (few) children like this but that has always been the case ( in the past it would have been state of the art rocking horses, wonderful dolls houses/dolls, large forts and hand painted lead soldiers.) Most children in the UK would get nice but not sophisticated presents.Some poor children very little at all.