How many Grandads do we have?

Hello, Bristolboy! Welcome.

Ariadne. Thank you for the welcome. Nice class of lady on here. :-)

Ah! BB you clearly haven't yet read some of the racier threads here! However it's perfectly possible to be classy and a bit naughty at the same time.

BB we are like cream cake's naughty but nice

Now then Glamma you've introduced an interesting thought! If you were a cream cake, what would you be?

Strawberry Tart beat that

Well I think 'tarty' beats naughty! Think I'll go for an eclair topped with dark chocolate - a bit sophisticated but not too sweet!

Nice One

Naughty, classy and tarty lol Sounds good to me girls.

Heys guys :-)

I haven't been on here for a while as I have been working/studying/etc..

A girl's gotta to work to support my expensive tastes (tongue in cheek)!

Thanks for your kind responses and well received advice regarding the bathplug & the ceiling joists. Much appreciated. Just about to haul the ladder out as we speak.

Once again, thanks to you kind gentlemen - good to have you all here. We are all people first, then grandparents and male/female should not be the defining characteristic

Back later.

I have given up my garden shed, for my Grandchildren have bought me an iPad and now I have become an Apple freak. It beats all those lonely hours on my own in the shed.

It is amazing, my lovely wife and I often chat on Facetime for hours (which is a lovely piece of Apple software.) It saves me having to sit in the lounge to talk to her, we even sam to have abider range of subjects.

On a serious note, we both love the iPad it keeps us in touch with our family across the world, in Australia, France, New Zealand,Spain and USA almost daily and we see them all as if they are in the same room.

It is a fantastic way of communicating with our kids and grandchildren who live 100's of miles away and also many friends we had lost contact with. We are both like young kids in this new IT world, Not bad for 80 year olds.

My iPad has some fantastic brain teaser games, I can even play against friends in the USA from my own fireside chair.

I can even let off steam on Twitter and Facebook and tell the politicians what I really think about them. I even had a go at the media last week, it keeps me happy and active, I've even walked around the town taking pictures on the iPad of eyesores and forward then to the Council asking them to clean them up. I got a very positive response and thanks. Already some of the eyesore sites have received attention. Role on my 90's and further innovations to keep the old brain box ticking.

Brian

Hello, pensionista, good to have you on board. We need a few more grandads. Your enthusiasm for the i-pad is infectious and I am having to restrain myself, although I have a perfectly good laptop and the Android phone is fine for taking pictures - must have a go at the eyesores and potholes around town!

Welcome pensionista - lovely to see a new grandad. I don't have an ipad but have a Motorola tablet instead as I prefer the android way of doing things. Agree completely with the modern technology being an excellent way of keeping in touch with family abroad. How different from the way our parents generation had to cope when children moved away.
I use Facebook mainly for sharing family photos and although I've joined Twitter I admit to not really understanding that process. I joined because I had a problem with EDF energy and one "tweet" sorted out the problem immediately whereas numerous phone calls and email had come to nothing.
We must keep up with technology - it really annoys the children when we're ahead of them

Hi pensionista its good to have another Grandad about, its been too quiet in the shed lately.

Hello, Granddads everywhere. I wish my GC had a lovely granddad like you, but my ex-husband chose to stop seeing our daughters when he remarried and his third wife had six children and numerous grandchildren.
He has not seen the last four of our ten grandchildren. It upsets one of my daughters but the other just shrugs.
I have had a lot of good advice on computers, cars, plumbing, etc. on my expat forums (I live in France) but now I will pick your brains when I have a problem. Of course, much of the advice has come from women too!

My DOC (Dear Old Chap) is 73 today, but looks about 60. He is the loveliest man in the world (in my opinion) and makes me laugh on a daily basis. I think he'd like to join Gransnet but might feel intimidated by the force of our Girl Power. Please invite him to join us. His take on life is different from mine, and he shouts at the television news quite a lot, but he's well worth cultivating. AND he has a shed, so from April to October he has a legitimate hiding place when the going gets tough. Not that his life is in any way onerous. After all, he is blessed with a totally devoted wife!

Come on then, DOC, we need you and we're really kind to grandads.

Come on in, the waters lovely just watch out for jingle!

DOC come on in! We are -stroppy- gentle, -assertive- not a bit forceful, women with ideas about everything!

Well, I got that wrong, didn't I? Off out now, behave yourselves, Grans and grandads!

You would have to be careful what you say about your DOC, jack if he is going to read your posts! (unless you have an alter-ego for any comments he should not read)!

Great response. Thank you. DOC is currently doing his piano practise. He is having lessons with a young Russian musician (my birthday present to him this time last year). I interrupted him to tell him that he'd be welcome on Gransnet. He said (quote): "That's very nice. But they might not like my extreme views."

He went on to say he hopes there'll be a GN convention in Leicester this year so he can meet all the lovely ladies. Why Leicester? We live at least 100 miles away! Do, please, keep encouraging him. Must go. First-born has just arrived with birthday present for Aged Parent.

Oh you lucky thing Greatnan having so many grandchildren, I have one. And you live in France too, how wonderful. I would dearly like to move to Tuscany but my grandson stays with me 5 days a week and as he's only 8 has some time to finish in school yet.
I help out at his school and we're off to a Hindu temple tomorrow for the day, lunch included, luckily veg. curry as I'm a life-long vegetarian!

DOC We love extreme views,and we're used to them too. Many a spat on here, but always reasonably polite

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