Shared play

Camping, dens and houses. We'd get a really big box, cut out windows and doors. One of my grandchildren insisted on eating and sleeping in it for days. Using sheets over tables to make dens and camping in our tiny tiny little garden. Like you say, it's getting more difficult for me to squeeze into small places and I hardly look graceful trying to get back on my feet. Searching the woods for a gruffilo is getting harder too. Poo sticks. They love balancing along lines in the park and I can still manage that. I have convinced one of my grandsons that the tree trunk in the local stream is a sleeping crocodile. We have great fun looking for him on tippy toes (just in case we wake it)

I suspect I am seen more as Granny Mainland as the other Grandma lives close by and they see her a lot, while we live several hundred miles away and only see them every couple of months.

monica, Granny Island or Granny Mainland? I would definitely be Granny Island!

Role play, both DGC are into role play, so every visit is exciting wondering who I am going to be, Helen in 'All Creatures Great Small', various characters in the 'Railway Children, Secret Garden and other books. I have also been a Viking, Knight, Princess, Katy Morag's Grandma (and knitted the sweater), wounded soldier (DGD was Florence Nightingale).

jingl! You sound like a lady after my own heart!

Football was good. When I could still run fast. I was good at kicking the ball out from between his legs when he was sitting on it.

Being an SAS person with a gun held out at arms length. Or an armed policeman shouting "on the floor! on the floor!" Great.