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FannyCornforth Tue 15-Sept-20 09:59:43

Hello! As I said, I'm new.
I joined today. Not a Gran (or a Grandad), but then I'm not a Mum either, and I'm on Mumsnet.
So. Show me around please!

FannyCornforth Wed 16-Sept-20 12:45:29

Keeping with the alcohol theme, has anyone tried one of the variations of Jack Daniel's?
There's a cinnamon one, a honey one and a new Apple one.
I'm not usually a fan of whiskey, but they do sound tempting.

Kalu Wed 16-Sept-20 12:51:45

Just discovered who Sweet Fanny Adams was; an 8yr old English girl who was brutally murdered in 1867 by a solicitors clerk.
I though the phrase referred to mean nothing or very little. No idea it was anything to do with an 8yr old being murdered!

lemsip Wed 16-Sept-20 12:52:50

my granny was Frances but always called Fanny!

FannyCornforth Wed 16-Sept-20 13:05:57

Re sweet Fanny Adams
I imagine that its use developed to be a more socially acceptable of saying sweet f* all.

MawB2 Wed 16-Sept-20 13:06:08

FannyCornforth

Keeping with the alcohol theme, has anyone tried one of the variations of Jack Daniel's?
There's a cinnamon one, a honey one and a new Apple one.
I'm not usually a fan of whiskey, but they do sound tempting.

Now you’re talking Fanny !

lemongrove Wed 16-Sept-20 13:10:53

I’m saying nothing...... but I’ll have a gin if anyone is offering.

FannyCornforth Wed 16-Sept-20 13:13:56

I'm just about to do my Tesco order.
Who knows what might happen...shock

Squiffy Wed 16-Sept-20 13:57:55

Too late for me, my Tesco order’s on its way! ?? There’s always next week, I suppose …

Parsley3 Wed 16-Sept-20 14:25:54

There is a very funny Irn Bru advert about a baby being given the name Fanny, if anyone remembers it.

Kalu Wed 16-Sept-20 14:39:23

Yes I remember the advert Parsley....Granny’s explanation for baby’s name was, there’s always been a Fanny in our family. ?

Callistemon Wed 16-Sept-20 14:51:39

Ellianne

Deepest Devon MawB2

Ooh, where, tell me more please Ellianne!

Callistemon Wed 16-Sept-20 14:54:52

FannyCornforth

Keeping with the alcohol theme, has anyone tried one of the variations of Jack Daniel's?
There's a cinnamon one, a honey one and a new Apple one.
I'm not usually a fan of whiskey, but they do sound tempting.

I was just going to say that you can't adulterate whisky, FannyCornforth, but then realised it is whiskey, so that's ok!

?

Ellianne Wed 16-Sept-20 14:59:50

pm'ed you Callistemon.

Callistemon Wed 16-Sept-20 15:00:17

Thank you Ellianne

NanKate Wed 16-Sept-20 15:26:49

My DH, who is in the garden, has just come up to the window to see what all my hysterical laughter is about. My reply ‘A load of old fannies dearest’. ?

I’ll join you for a drink Lemongrove. A glass of chilled white wine would go down nicely. ?

Jaxjacky Wed 16-Sept-20 15:44:10

NanKate I’ll join you in that if I may...?

Jaxjacky Wed 16-Sept-20 15:53:24

JD is a bourbon, not whisky...x

BlueSky Wed 16-Sept-20 15:56:04

I'm having a Guinness, dying laughing! grin

Callistemon Wed 16-Sept-20 16:12:29

Jaxjacky

JD is a bourbon, not whisky...x

I thought bourbon was a bourbon whiskey (with an 'e')
Not whisky without an 'e' as in 'Scottish whisky'

Callistemon Wed 16-Sept-20 16:13:04

What a funny word it is!

I sound like Miranda.

Ilovecheese Wed 16-Sept-20 16:14:51

Have you been to Manchester City Art gallery FannyCornforth?
They have a very good collection of Pre Raphaelite paintings. I have been visiting every now and again since I was a teenager, to remind myself of how lovely they are.

As regards Gransnet, I like the News and Politics threads best

Namsnanny Wed 16-Sept-20 16:32:22

I'm just going to throw caution to the wind and show off now, because I am tracing a sketch I bought at auction some time ago with no signature.

It's a portrait which I've since been told could be of Lizzy Siddall (wife) but could be one of the other muses, who all look similar to me, by D.G. Rossetti.

I'm trying to get some more info at the moment.

The Victorian frame it came in was painted in possibly the '60-70's, in a psychedelic mix of lime green, purple and orange.

I think that's why no one else wanted it!

Callistemon Wed 16-Sept-20 16:40:49

We'll look out for you on the Antiques Road Show, namsnanny!

Namsnanny Wed 16-Sept-20 16:49:35

Yes wouldnt that be exciting!
I'll carry a newspaper and wear a red carnation so you'll know who I am grin

FannyCornforth Wed 16-Sept-20 16:56:36

Wow Namsnanny, how exciting!
Lizzie Siddal is much finer boned than Fanny Cornforth.
Much more delicate features.
FC had a prodigious amount of hair.