I have joined Gransnet for one reason only...

I still can't really see a problem. If you don't like schmaltzy cards with twee verses for granny, don't buy them. Meanwhile, grannies are perfectly capable of gradually teaching their grandchildren the difference between genuine affection and sentimental twaddle.

I bet there isn't a single granny who would dare post "I've joined Mumsnet for one rason only… on Mumsnet.

reason only.

I was about to post something like that absent. Unfortunate thread title or what?!!!

Can you imagine the responses from Mumsnetters?

Of course, looking at the argument from the other end of the telescope, we send cards as signs of affection and to give pleasure to the recipient. So if a granny likes cards with a picture of a rosy-cheeked, white-haired old dear in a rocking chair with a cat on her lap and a cup of tea and her knitting on the table beside her with a piece of doggerel such as:

My granny's very special,
And I'll tell you something true,
The world would be a better place
With more grannies just like you.

then why not suppress all you good taste instincts and buy that one? Just don't get your grannies muddled.

Elegran...^not good manners^... well said.

What a naughty temper!

We saw her off !

It achieved something then - solidarity of gransnetters under attack.

One reason (not the only?) for starting a war is to get the whole country united in seeing off invaders. Internal differences pale into insignificance, temporarily anyway.

Elegran...if I could, I'd knit a banner. #bestleaveittobags

Gransnetters under attack...shall we Scottish grans come together in song? After me...*Flower of Scotland*...

Knit one, purl one, slip one, drop one, pass the dropped stitch over ....

Well, I think I'm glad Tee 2072 isn't my DD or DGD. She'd get short shrift from me for 'throwing her toys out of the pram'. What a cheeky madam !

I'm an ageing Rock Chick granny. Follow my favourite band up and down the country, always in the front row - hugging the barrier. Running to the front to get with the atmosphere. I'm not really a cupcake, pink and baking grandma (I do like baking though) but love any cards as long as the GC have chosen them

I think tee should have a stint on the naughty step, she had a warning, she continued so off she goes.

Cheeky madam! Obviously hasn't met grans like those on Gransnet!! Supergrans!!!

Anyone for a nice cuppa?
#slurpsanddripsdownfrontofcardi

i still dont know if she was on about cards or stereotyping. Can't get the cheeky, incoherent madams these days can you?

My solution - buy blank cards with images you like and personalise them with your inside greeting. I don't even buy cards with ages on the front let alone Mum, Gran, my darling husband...(actually don't have one of those but the principle applies).

Or are all the postings about cards actually wind ups? Seem to have succeeded.

The cards with no greeting are usually the nicest anyway. I like to write my own message and appreciate it if I receive cards like this.

Point of Order?

P****d Off?

Oh I am too late again

Think she needed her legs slapping ..