How old are you?

Smiling at the Shreddies knitting comments. When it first came out, I knitted 4 dozen Shreddies and posted them in tiny glass bowls to my grandchildren. 6 year old gs said to his Mum after they arrived 'Next time you talk to Nana, can you ask her to knit me some milk too'

The title is pants, the logo is pants. Could we have a suggestions forum for this site?

I'm 53 with a 10 week old GS and a 4 week old GD.

I HATE the logo. Everything about it is wrong from the colour to the graphic. Not much for the type face either.

my own granny used to say, 'I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.'

I suspect that whoever designed the logo is rather younger than most of us and therefore thinks we are all of the Vera Lyn age type. This is precisely why we need a voice , we are a massively ignored part of society, in the media especially .

I am 67 and had my first grandchild last year. I was 34 when I had my daughter and she was 32 when she had her son.
I'm glad to see that the logo has BETA next to it, perhaps they can come up with something more appropriate . I suppose it does have a campaigning feel to it which this site is all about.
Young people do have some funny ideas about older people. A charity I work for produced a volunteers handbook where all the women volunteers illustrated in it looked like Thora Hird.
I often remind people that it was my generation who wore the first mini skirts. I do wish I still had my Mary Quant coat !

I am 62 with 18 grandchildren ages from 10 to 25 and have 3 great grand children

As my own grandmother used to say “I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth”.

I'm still not old enough to Know Better though.

I am 62 but mentally 42. Something that has occurred to me akin to people saying they are too young to remember the land army is what songs will they sing in old peoples homes in a few years time? I certainly don't know the words to the war songs that they sing, so when are the carers going to realise they need to change their songs. Give it five to ten years and we will all look at them blankly!!! How about Yellow Submarine?

Hi I became A Granny at 50, it seems alifetime ago. My Gchildren ae overseas and I see them annually. I', m 67

Came to Gransnet just this morning after reading a few online articles - mostly from newspapers - and was almost put off entirely by the references to Facebook for the Elderly!
If we want to be part of a successful site ( and I believe it has a lot of potential) we have to have real input. Let's start with that WW2 poster which is the logo and let's put the media straight about the 'elderly' tag.
I've seen Mumsnet representatives many a time on tv so how about it? Could start with Lorraine Kelly as she seems to think even women over 50 still have a role!
Would love to volunteer but don't have enough experience of the site and live at the 'wrong' end of the country for tv appearances.

Sorry supernana but just cant resist =seven g.children, 3 boys and 3 girls
thats 6. my mind is running riot wondering what the 7th is. {smile]

I'm 61 and not a grandmother.....yet.

I do live in hope that my offspring will breed some day.

Awful, awful logo. Plus what's with the 'join for free' thing. Is there some way you can pay?

I am 50 with a grandson of 4, and ,like some other posters, I hadn't really noticed the logo. At least they're not holding knitting needles

They are not landgirls in the logo,look closely and you can see one has a tattoo on her arm, really modern granny. I was a mum at 22 but had to wait until I was 59 to be a granny. Why is this generation so keen to wait until it is nearly too late ?

I love being a Granparent it is great!

When I first visited the website I saw the forum exclusively for 'knitting' and nearly didn't join Gransnet.

Sorry GN peeps, but that really is aging (apologies to GN'ers who knit).

Surely 'handicrafts' would be better?

I think the age thing is the problem... we are all people who like pebbles on a beach are all different with some things in common... Age is really just a number, I am almost 61 and sometimes I have lots in common with younger folk and sometimes with older, and sometimes I have nothing at all in common with others of my generation ( The Who lyrics to their 'My Generation' track just came to mind)... I think that the 'generation' division 'thing' which divides us all into 'Stepford' like sameness is the enemy of a richness of difference in all of us whatever age we are.

My GS asked me how old I was (he was 4 at the time). I began to say six.... and then stopped, wondering if he'd understand 61. He looked at me and said 'you can't be 6, Nana'. I reluctantly agreed with this and he went on to say 'You've had a birthday. so you must be 7 now'.
So as far as he's concerned I'm 7 yrs old which gives me the opportunity to act it! My excuse is that everyone knows that 6 + 1 = 7!

I see what is being attempted by the logo empowerment etc but doubt its appeal to the wide age range the site hopes to attract. Also I feel the categories and leaders you use employ the usual stereotypes. This site should be a chance to fight back against those and it seems the members are way ahead of the editors in that. That said at least you have provided a platform, so thank you for that.

IMO, the logo should be of a stylish woman using a lap-top/computer as that is the one (perhaps only) thing all GN'ers have in common

Geekygran, it's not just "old people" that knit. It is quite trendy nowadays........

I am a 53 year old gran of one gorgeous granddaughter who will be one on the 30th May. I am afraid I do not like the logo either. My Mother, who will be 85 next week was in the Women's Land Army. That is how she met my Dad. I do think the logo needs to be more colourful and more relevant to the grans of today.

I'm 56 with a step grand daughter of 13 months and a grand daughter due in July - I just can't wait to meet her
I think the banner heading should be changed to something more appropriate for ladies of our age rather than our mothers' age - hope about a photo of George Clooney?

Oops, typo, or perhaps a Freudian slip. That should read 'how' about, not 'hope' about!