Boasting alert!

for another great daughter!

Congratulations!! All I can say is that these clever DDs must have inherited it from somewhere?
Our middle DD made us very proud with her wonderful design for the new production of As You Like It at the RST Stratford and has just had similar 4* reviews for her Dancing at Lughnasa at The Royal, Northampton. [modest mum]emoticon

Wonderful, Grannylin, you must be bursting with pride!

High fives, Grannylin Well done DD2

Congratulations to your DD2, Grannylin!

Congrats to Grannylin's DD! I love a good news story...

I bet sticking it to the teacher helped her along the way! Happy for you!

Great news! Many congrats to her.

Commiserations to her!
Seriously. Well done!

Sorry.....daughter!

That's a great achievement, Grannylin. Congrats to your granddaughter

Grannylin That's fantastic, well done to DD

Well done Grannylin's DD, great achievement

Just heard that my lovely DD2 has passed her final GP exams, even managing 100% on one paper....so fingers up to her awful, male Maths teacher who greeted us, cruelly, one parents' evening with : 'oh dear, she's not like your others is she?'

Greatnan If only my grand-daughter could be my personal carer [when I finally stop functioning on all cylinders]...she, like your grand-daughter, is a treasure. My grand-daughter plays the flute. She really doesn't need any "props" to be entertaining because her kind nature and enthusiasm for life, is infectious. When at school, she instigated an anti-bullying campaign. She was brilliant at mediating...as you can tell, I'm dead proud of her.

Snap, Soop! My grand-daughter has just finished the second year of her nursing degree in Nelson, New Zealand and she has supported herself by working in an old people's home. She loves it so much she is seriously considering specialising in geriatric care. She is a good pianist and the people in the home love it when they have a singsong round the piano. I have told her she is booked to be my carer if I ever need one!

Thank you for your kind thoughts, Speki. I am afraid my daughter's mental health is not likely to improve as she has no intention of giving up her drug abuse. We have not had an argument, as this suggests that both parties are involved. I have never shown her the least hostility by word or deed - not even any criticism of the way she is treating me.

soop sending congrats to your DGD she sounds a sweetheart (wonder who she takes after)

Yay!

soop lovely pics, you certainly got the hang of enlarging them didn't you?

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It sounds as if she takes after you, soop. for you both.

Have uploaded a lovely image of my granddaughter and her father [my second son.]

speki such wise words.

May I share the latest good news from our lovely granddaughter who is reading psychology at Bristol uni'. She has a new job as a Care Assistant at a home for disabled adults. She needs 100 hours experience as part of her course. Helping disabled people to enjoy a better quality of life, is what she set her heart on doing from her early teens. She is one of the kindest and most understanding young women that we know. Added to which, being in her company is like basking in the warmth of sunshine. I shall look out a photo of her. A little later, I shall add it to the album.

Greatnan you can't win em all..you all appear to me such a positive family group and you must be so proud to have played a part in generating so much shared love and achievement. There will always be offspring who blame their parents for all their ills - my DH has a habit of sitting on his hands bewailing lost opportunities back in the 60s when he was dominated by his narrow minded negative (religiously fanatical) parents. He is now nearly 70 and has achieved much, but it is his parents he blames for not achieving more! Its crazy. Your daughter is alive and lets hope she will one day see that she played a huge part in your rupture and that she could have met you half way to make your relationship work.

Grannylin - I hope you let us know about Sicily and post some photos. It is one of few larger islands in the Med I have not yet visited.

Wow!I knew you would come up with something Ele.No doubt soop has disappeared for the night now .I can't do anything because I am going to Sicily in the morning. I shall be back in a week and hope to see lots of hats on display