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How many Grandads do we have?

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Magsie Mon 23-May-11 16:49:05

How many Grandads do we have and are they happy to be asked things? Step forward lads!

Butternut Mon 14-May-12 20:58:45

pompa - Are you feeling brighter? I do hope so.

pompa Mon 14-May-12 19:32:52

Gramps, you won't need a key, just the password, but you must keep it secret. "I come bearing cake" upon which you will be admitted.

greenmossgiel Mon 14-May-12 19:23:20

pompa - just to let you know that I've been investigating the U3A in my area. I should receive the paperwork for it within the next couple of days. (Can't remember the thread on which you told me about it)!

gramps Mon 14-May-12 19:18:48

Re. Shed.
I've not got in it yet. I understand though, that like the Tardis, it expands expotentially!
I was sent a key, but it vapourised after falling into my porage - gave my porage a funny taste too!

Anybody got a spare? []

whitewave Wed 09-May-12 16:31:39

pompa

mu DH goes to woodturning - his meeting is tonight! AGM I think

Notsogrand Tue 08-May-12 22:47:43

Many years ago I seriously overcooked a bread pudding....it was rock solid. OG drilled a hole through it, attached a line and weight and used it as a slab of floating groundbait when we went fishing.

Nonu Tue 08-May-12 19:50:00

I don"t use my breadmaker anymore because I used to love the bread so much we would eat, and eat and put on weight

Bags Tue 08-May-12 19:45:55

I like the bread pudding idea for bread scraps, gramps! I needed an idea like that as we no longer have the chickens who used to eat all our scraps. They ate the bread but they were especially friendly if I went out with meat scraps or fat, and as for grated cheese, well, they'd sell their souls for that grin.

Anagram Tue 08-May-12 19:32:58

There you are! They're self-sufficient! grin

gramps Tue 08-May-12 19:08:16

I make all our bread using a bread maker!
I have my own recipe for seedy bread .. Sometimes I cheat and buy pkt. of Chiabatta.
I save all the"bits" in the freezer until there is a pound , then- - Bread puddin'!
We take it to our Dance Club , where it is devouref voraciously!

Anyone want to swap recipes?

See you in the shed lads!!

pompa Tue 08-May-12 17:13:24

Anagram, don't be mean to us, you know you make far better cakes than most of us. I can manage rock cakes and quite enjoy making bread, but usually I'm too lazy.

glammanana Tue 08-May-12 17:12:51

absent never mind the bread pudding for the grandpa's I Love It please leave me a slice.grin

pompa Tue 08-May-12 17:10:33

Love ! Bread Pudding ! those two words are interchangeable - missed my afternoon coffee and cake today, spent too long looking for a pair of shoes for Mrs. P. by the time we had finished (minus any shoes) they were shut.

Woodturning club tonight, so tea with a biscuit will have to suffice.

Anagram Tue 08-May-12 17:07:44

Why are we giving the granddads cakes anyway? Are they all helpless old codgers who can't fend for themselves, or are we slipping into stereotype mode? wink

absentgrana Tue 08-May-12 17:02:56

pompa I don't think granddads are really going through an unpopular period. Grandmas, in general, are very happy that you're here, I think. It's just that we really don't want to have to keep telling you that we love you.smile

Thinking about the shed – I make very unreliable cakes, but can do mean bread pudding every time. Does this work for granddads as well as grandchildren?

pompa Tue 08-May-12 16:56:08

Waiting for another couple of weeks before planting any tender plants out. need to start sowing cubits in greenhouse over the next few days. But, as we usually do, we have arranged to go away for 2/3 weeks just at the most critical time in the garden.

Notsogrand Tue 08-May-12 16:46:56

Haven't been to the shed for ages, great to see some new Granddads!

Off now to get some plants in before the next downpour, but I'll leave this slab of bread pudding behind. It's still warm. smile

pompa Tue 08-May-12 16:29:27

Hi Gramps, we need all the support we can get, us Granddads are going through an unpopular period atm. Come on over to the shed. Safer there.

Greatnan Tue 08-May-12 16:18:31

I am waiting for the extreme views with interest! I love a good debate. Of course, the views might be extreme in the same direction as my own, which will still be good because I will have another supporter!

gramps Tue 08-May-12 15:12:14

I'm also a slow, one finger typist with a degree in mistakes! Also ,a crazy sense of humour!

gramps Tue 08-May-12 15:08:43

I'm an 80 tr. old Granddad ,with 5 Grandchildren. Eldest (boy) at Lancaster uni, doing physics degree. Yungest (girl) 16 and apple of my eye dopng her A levels. Good results so far. She has diabetes and coeliac disease. As large as life though!!

I do pottery, sing in Church Choir and amongst other things, help in primary School with reading!
Am I qualified to join the Grandads?

gramps Tue 08-May-12 14:54:41

Ding ding, your bus has arrived (late as usual!)

fatherbear Tue 24-Apr-12 19:26:03

Ask away and I'll try to answer but i have a very small brain

Jacey Mon 23-Apr-12 19:44:17

Welcome grandadR, DavidH22 and fatherbear dragon

nightowl Mon 23-Apr-12 19:02:47

Welcome fatherbear hope you will come to the gransnet party. I have just invited myself with a cake, I have also offered to be the one man band so I'm afraid that role is taken. Unless they decide to hold auditions of course hmm