Grandsons school uniform

Unfortunate accident with onesie. Don't think you'd want it in this state. I thought there were poppers...

I counted my granddaughter's school frocks (12) and pinafore dresses (10). About the same number of shirts, half a dozen cardigans as they get lost, 1 pair of school shoes from Startrite which cost £40. My daughter says these quantities are normal and some are hand-me-downs.
My children had 2 of everything but I was a SAHP with time to wash and iron every day.

Jane10 bleurgh! You keep it!

It's the price of the tuck box that worries me.?That's before the tuck that goes into it!

Tuck box lemon ? You can afford to feed them as well as clothe them?

It has to be done, you know how those top public schools underfeed their pupils, a tuck box is essential.

Do Primark sell them?

Primark? Heaven forfend! This is the tuck box my little cheeries will be trudging off to school with. A snip at only £925. Naturally, they have one each, plus a spare.

I think Lona's GCs would regard that as some sort of bed Chewbacca

I bought Vans for my DGD and now my DD is moaning non stop and insisting I buy some for her too, as she never had those for school.
Should I buy some (I can't really afford it) or should I take my DGD's Vans back to the shop. They are not much worn.

This is the best fun we've had on GN for ages . Anyone new not knowing what was going on would think we'd gone bonkers. Perhaps we should suggest GNHQ upload this thread to Facebook and let them pick the bones out of that. ?

Bed, bed! Lona' GC don't have time to sleep they need to be down the pits looking for coal to keep their poor granny warm this winter.

Now, to the contents, foi gras, natch, Duchy Originals Oat Biscuits, Pol Roger Pure Champagne, non vintage but a bargain at £47.50 a bottle, never mind that it is sans dosage and tastes like sucking a mouthful of swarf (don't even ask me how I know, the memory is still too raw)

Larks tongues in aspic, roasted dodo from the last breeding pair discovered by David Attenborough, long life zebra milk, and of course those coffee beans that have passed through the digestive system of some sort of monkey before being harvested by gilded Nubian boys, then ground in platinum mortars with ivory pestles by certified virgins from families removed no more than three times from a current reigning Royal Family.

Tuck box!!? Bed !? My gc would love that box to live in!

At the moment they're sleeping in a cardboard box on the M56.

Why phoenix you've just described our mid week tea time fayre! Nothing fancy. My little cheeries prefer the sort of food that their nanny gave them in the nursery. Spotted Dick; jam roly poly, corned beef hash etc. I'm afraid your tuck box contents wouldn't pass muster.

Alcohol for the kiddies phoenix ?
I get it you want to get them expelled to save you the fees.

Tell your DD that Vans are so 'last year' FarNorth.

There should be a laughing out loud, rolling around with tears spouting out smiley! I have so enjoyed this post. What a hilarious witty lot you grans are!!

Just looked up 'Vans' - Is this an updated 'old woman who lives in a shoe' story. Surely that would be posher than a cardboard box on the M6 (unless it was a Vans shoe box of course).

Vans are a "label" trainer , very popular with the trendy.

We bought the same tuck box but the chauffeur complained it was too heavy to lug up to the dorm, tough, Tarquin always has the best.

Oh harrigran surely you have an assistant chauffeur to help with the luggage, Put an ad in Lady magazine, you could send the valet of course.

It was the pony that finished our chauffeur off .

GC wear kilts as uniform , we pass them down , I am a dab hand at Darning in tartan , it is so satisfying when one can get the darns to join up , can,t think why youngest is not happy

Why didn't he just ride it Nana ?