I'm a newbie.........

Just joined this site, not a granma yet, but maybe in a couple of years. My husband and me left the husle and bustle of the city 6 years ago, we are retired, and now are so busy we don't know where we found the time to work. We moved to Caithness in the Scottish Highlands, we have a house over looking the sea, we have dogs, cats, chickens, lambs and we enjoy gardening. Husband also has a boat, so we enjoy sea food we have caught ourselves. Although in our 60s we feel as if we are in our 30s, we do what we want when we want, getting old is not all bad.

Reading all the introductions,I think I am an older gran.Should have told you my 11 grandchildren range from 25 to almost 5.Still feel young though,and probably am similar to Nanamo!

Reading all the introductions,I think I am an older gran.Should have told you my 11 grandchildren range from 25 to almost 5.Still feel young though,and probably am similar to Nanamo.
From gamblingran

Sorry everyone; I posted twice without realising there was a new member thread because I'm truly awful at navigating sites. I am mother of two, gran of one and looking forward to getting to know you all.

Hello to all you lovely ladies, I joined last week and I'm really looking forward to getting to know you all and having some great chats! Have a great day x

Hi, I am a newbie. I am 72 years old and have a son with two sons 13 and 11 and a daughter with four children, two sons aged 23 and 21 and two girls 17 and 15(going on 18). I love them all very much and tell tham so often. I have a wonderful son-in-law and daughter-in-law. I swim and play short mat bowls. I love my laptop to shop on line, post on facebook and play several games, my favourite is scrabble. I love to chat

Hello I am new too. I'm a relatively new granny, having grankids of 2years and 5months. Its just wonderful, I love them to bits. I am a painter/printmaker and I like driving my morris minor convertable. I am looking forward to chats x

Hello to you all, I've also just joined after reading about Gransnet in the weekend papers. About time we had a forum/voice! I'm a recently retired 61 year-old, and proudly, as my user name suggests, Harrison's Gran. He is just 8 weeks old and lives in Sussex, which is quite a long way from me as I'm in Somerset. I'm enjoying retirement so far much more than I thought I would - never been so busy. However, I find I'm losing the weekly structure that work imposes, and the days glide usefully one into another......still, as my overworked son says wistfully 'I'm sure you'll learn to live with that, Mum'!

hello every one,joined today.I am an oldy(75) but will do my best to keep up!!looking forward to meeting you all.

Oh dear, I feel a new addiction coming on! I've only just joined and wasn't sure I qualified as I am a Gran-in-waiting. My first grandchild is due in November. It's very exciting and I'm lucky my son & DIL live quite close.

One thing I'm nervous about is the child care discussion. I've no idea yet how involved they will want me to be or how much I will want to take on in terms of looking after the little one. I would love to hear others' experiences of whether these things were discussed before the first birth or not.

Another newbie, mother of three and grandmother of 4 and one on the way. Have to confess of never going on Mums net, but Gransnet is more my age group.

Hello everyone Ive just joined and Im looking forward to chatting with everyone Im a mother of 2 and granny to 3 girls and 1 boy with another due in july the girls are 14 10 and 7 and my sweet little grandson is 1 I love being a granny and get so much pleasure from all the kids

I'm another newbie to the site, saw details on bt yahoo news today. I'm 65, have 3 daughters and 1 son, 10 grandchildren, 6 boys, 4 girls and 4 great grandsons the latest was only born on May 1st. Our family live in Tyne and Wear, Worcestershire and Spain.
My main interests are travel, my husband and I adore Australia and through my interest in genealogy have made and met up with lots of friends down under. My other main interest is the Guide Association. I'm not an active unit member now but am a Trefoil Guild member.

My two lovelies come to me via my wonderful stepson. So I suppose I'm a stepgran, but I've been there since day one and the children think of me as their 'Nain'. Welsh version of nanna. My choice, as I'm Welsh and at the time I was a bit self concious about taking on the title of Grandmother as technically I wasn't one.
Anyway hope that qualifies me!
I love the fact that Gransnet is so wide ranging and what a treat to talk to ladies who know that life can get more interesting as you get older.
Look forward to keeping in touch with everyone.

Hello everyone,I am also a newbie and have just joined tonight,I look forward to getting to know you all and having a good chat.
I have 5 Grand children ranging from 13 years to 21 years,two boys(well men) and three girls and they are the light of my life.

Hi everyone. I'm new here too and feel fairly well qualified to be here - being mum to 3 sons and Grandma to 2 wonderful girls and one rascal of a boy - bless him. Here's to making new friends.

I've just joined Gransnet and thought I'd say hello.
I've posted messages in two forum strands, 'books' and 'grammar' and as I'm on the computer most days I'm looking foward to finding out what others think, we'll see what occurs shall we?

Hi everyone, just joined today, and I am loving it already!

I am (almost) 62 yrs of age, I have 2 granddaughters aged 9 and 2, and 2 stepgrandkids aged 12 and 9. I live on the east yorks coast with hubby number 2, but unfortunatly my 2 lovely grandchildren are 100 miles away in Sheffield, and hubbies 2 lovely grandchildren are even further away down in Worcester which is nearly 300 miles away. We dont see much of them, but we keep in touch via the internet and snail mail

I am a newbie too and am I the only man here? Bit concerned that it appears to be for grandma's only!

Hi to all 'newbies', looking forward to chatting to you all, this looks like it's going to be fun!

hi CathyS, I'm a gran-in-waiting too, my daughter is expecting a little girl at the end of May, and I think there are some other GIW out there too, oh look I've made up another acronym!

hi *mrman *, welcome to Gransnet, I beleive that there are other men on here too, but don't be shy, please do join us, and yes I agree, it should really be for Grandparents, but maybe if other men join, the tech team will consider changing the name a bit to encompass the 'lads'

Hello everyone!
I'm new to Gransnet too, and wonder if there are any other Grandma's out there who live in Europe but have grandchildren in America. Would like to hear how they cope with the distance.

What a breath of fresh air this site is!

Hello,is there a Grandads net?

Hi Phil totally agree with you! I

Hello to you all. Just finished scraping my latest culinary masterpiece into the bin (orange cake- burnt black on top and a curious grey spongy layer at the bottom) and decided to cheer myself up by joining gransnet and relaxing with whilst I read through all your posts. Cheers!

Hi cupcake nice to speak to you, Once upon a time I made a good cake but dont seem to have the time or inclination, so I have handed over the mantle to my DD who I think is much better at it than I ever was.