I'm new here! Tell me about GN!

Lisa enough I'm going to have an accident!

Jane10

I'm a bit puzzled at your interest in Gransnet. You're not a Gran or Grandad or a Mum. Tell us why you're interested in GN

I'm the same, not a mum or gran, but have nieces and nephews. And I like contributing to the threads if I feel I have something to say.

Callistemon.....who or what ?

Fanny Hopwood

No Calli not you and all. Stop fanning about now!

Quiz time.
Who owned Fanny the Wonder Dog?

Fanny Craddock?

Julian Clary!

Hi FannyCornforth welcome to GN! It can be rather hard to get going and understand some of the humour at times but most posters are a really supportive lot! I have had good and bad responses over the 4 years since I joined and until recently didn't post very often but have discovered if you stay away from some of the more controversial threads such as News and Politics it can really be worth it on here.

Who could forget Fanny Craddock and poor henpecked Johnnie!

Sorry, FannyCornforth, we seemed to have digressed.
The name Fanny is bringing back memories.

Just plunge in. Some people seem to check their emails for pointers to what is going on but I never have.
I suppose it's a similar format to Mumsnet but smaller.

Well done HAZBEEN!
You win a life supply of innuendoes!

Julian Clary!
That Fanny must have been about 130 when she died.

Who was Fanny Fernackapan?

Seemed to be mentioned a lot during my childhood.

No babies named Fanny these days ?. Wonder why? Welcome to GN FC it’s a bit like wild swimming on here, just plunge in and enjoy the experience.

Incidentally I feel sorry for the Pre Raph’s women. Most of them came to sad ends. Par for the course in those days I suppose. Some were equally, if not more talented than the men.

There is a Farrow and Ball colour called Cornforth white . Suddenly seems more interesting!.

Crikey girls . I've just been out and found it!

Good work Ellianne!
Apparently, there was a Gracie Fields song called Fred Fernackapan, and Fanny was his wife.
Incidentally, my dog is called Gracie, so there is a tenuous circularity.

Oooh yes!!! I remember Fanny Fernackerpan being mentioned in a jokey way in my childhood. Thought it was made up within my family!

Ellianne

Crikey girls . I've just been out and found it!

Gives a whole new meaning to “getting wrecked” !

MawB2

Ellianne

Crikey girls . I've just been out and found it!

Gives a whole new meaning to “getting wrecked” !

PS Ellianne you didn’t see those at Snape Maltings did you?

Gives a whole new meaning to “getting wrecked."

Good god I've missed this schoolgirl (person) banter! And all because of a lot of old Fannys!

Deepest Devon MawB2

BlueSky

Fanny Craddock?

Apparently at the end of a programme demonstrating how to make doughnuts or something Johnny said “good luck with the recipe and may all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny’s”

Yes, do you think it was intentional?
I'm inclined to think so

In my defence charleygirl we are an hour ahead of you here so not quite gin on my cornflakes

MawB2 damson gin sounds delicious