Win a Ted Baker handbag and a copy of Bad Nana!

At a play park, my grandchildren went down a large slide. MY daughter went down too and the grandchildren set up a cry of 'nana too'. As my daughter had gone down at a fairly sedate pace I figured I'd be OK. I went down like a bat out of hell, swerved at the bottom to avoid kicking my youngest grandson in the head and landed on my finger!!. The finger dislocated and was at right angles. not wishing to upset grandchildren, I valiantly popped it back into place; my granddaughter yelled,' that was brilliant nana. Do it again'.

I was in my local convenience store on a Friday afternoon with my 3 year old granddaughter. It is fairly near to a mosque and some of the Muslim guys who go there were in the shop. Amy piped up loudly and clearly "Nana why is everyone wearing their pyjamas" Luckily everyone laughed and took it in good humour.

Taking my grandson to school when he asked me if i remembered the dinosaurs! .. remember them.. i married one! Sshhhh

I was in town with my then three year old granddaughter. She saw a group of teenage boys and looked puzzled. Then she asked "Granny, do you call them Mister boys?" Quite a good guess at a name for neither boys nor men!

My youngest granddaughter aged 4 is obsessed with people getting old. A couple of weeks ago she asked me " Granny are you really-really old and trying not to die?" Trying not to LOL I answered that I wanted to try and stay alive to see my beautiful princess marry a prince.

I was feeling irritated with my husband, I said to my grandson, " The trouble with men is that they only want to marry thick women."
His reply, with a big grin on his face: " Is that why grandpa married you grandma?"

My 18 month old GS found the chocolate button treats. Scoffed them all, brought the empty bag to my daughter and cried when she told him they were finished.

My DH was telling our DGD that he had found a very clever way to smooth the sheets when making the bed by scraping the flat part of a coat hanger over them before pulling up the duvet. Very calmly she studied his face and then said why don’t you try it on your face then. He has not lived it down since ??

Watching the news, my grandson (6 years) was sat frowning, really paying attention, when he suddenly let out a deep sigh and shook his head, When I asked him what was wrong, he replied. "Nanna, that was all gobbledy gobbeldy! I think he mentioned Gobbledy Gook!

We decided to take our grandson to London for a birthday treat. We did the full tourist thing - River boat cruise, HMS Belfast ect before hopping on an open top bus. It was bitterly cold but we headed upstairs. I noticed after while that we didn't seem to be passing any more of the usual land marks such as Trafalgar square and Buckingham Palace etc but assumed all was well. As it was so cold we persuaded our grandson to move to the front of the bus so that we were sheltered from the wind. As we say down our grandson looked down the periscope at the driver and all of a sudden the bus braked to a halt. The bus driver then up the stairs and told us he didn't think there was anyone left on the bus. A minute later and he would have been heading out on the M25 back to the depot. I not sure who was the most shocked but our 10 year old grandson thought it was hilarious!! The lovely bus driver then drove us all the way back into London and dropped us off at the underground!! We laughed together all the way home.

My young grandson was staying with us for a few hours. He was in his babywalker, racing around the room, chasing the dog. I sat down to read my mail and then realised that all had gone ominously quiet. I went into the kitchen and found that my DGS had managed to "trap" the dog in a corner. Then I realised that the babywalker was directly over the dog bowl and DGS was happily squelching his feet in the dog food!

My grandson came to stay and before it was time to go home he asked if he could have some chocolate (not allowed at home) so I had a small packet of chocolate buttons which he wolfed down . When he got home he was apparently ‘bouncing off the walls’ on a sugar high and his mother asked him “have you had chocolate?” She said he gave her a maniacal grin and shouted “hell yeah”. ?

I was looking after my DGS on Blackheath when he was two, and we were watching the light flashing at the top of Canada Tower in the distance. I asked him if he had been there on the train. He said 'Yes, but it's a bit scary'. It took me a while to work out that he knew the tower was at Canary Wharf, which he heard as 'Canary Wolf', and that the wolf lived at the top of the tower!

The funniest thing with our grandson was when he decided he didn't like sitting still in his Bumbo, it's a little chair. I watched as he threw himself sideways, upturning the Bumbo and allowing his release.

When my DD and DGD (aged 3) came to visit us last spring we made a fairy house in the woods next to our lake. DD and I had to find all of the branches and place them against a tree under instruction from a very bossy DGD. 'Not that one Mummy. A longer one' and 'Come on Grandma, I want more for the walls'. We then took it in turns to be the big bad wolf trying to blow the house down while the other two were huddled inside being the little pigs. Not good for the back! We also had to make a smaller fairy house for Rocky, our cat, who was not at all interested in playing in it. Despite the recent very windy weather and a tornado both fairy houses are still standing.

My husband really loves chocolate Hobnobs and so do the grandchildren. He always teases them by saying 'don't you eat my hobnobs'. When they come to visit and I offer them a drink and a biscuit they look at their granddad and try to take a hobnob biscuit on the quiet. Trouble is the biscuits have chocolate on them and the evidence is there for all to see. Always makes me smile.

My little granddaughter wanted to know why frogs were coming to her aunties wedding. So did we until we worked out little ears had heard us talking about frocks - not a word used in her presence before apparently!

Talking with my five year old grandson and telling him that my daddy was dead, half an hour later he asked me rather impatiently if he was still dead!

Many years ago we were going around and around the car parks at the Metro centre. Nana was in the car with us and had her blue badge so we needed to be neat the entrance. As someone was reversing out another car tries to nudge in front of us and grand-daughter shouted " oh no you don't - we have a Nana and we know how to use her!"
I don't think I have laughed so much since

When my three year old grandson looked at my husband and said ' Where has all your hair gone Granpda'

Sometimes it's best to keep quiet and let life take it's course.
My grandson, then aged seven, was visiting a relative with me, and before we left I had asked him not to comment on her size, so as not to hurt her feelings. As soon as we met this relative my grandson said to me in front of her: "Yes, you're right, she is very fat!"

My car mad 6 year old grandson was telling me about the car he wanted when he was old enough to drive. I said I was looking forward to him taking me out for a spin. He became very thoughtful and said “but grandma, I don’t think you’ll be here by then!” I asked where I would be? “Well grandma, I think you’ll be up in the sky”. I think he was being as tactful as he knew how!!

I was talking to my two granddaughters about the story of the Nativity as related in the Bible and the eldest one said 'How do you know all this Nan?' Before I could answer my grandson chipped in with 'Nan is so old she was there for the first Christmas' Cheeky little blighter!

When my eldest granddaughter was 3 years old she loved Doc McStuffin and so we bought her a doctors set. At the time we had a lovely natured Rottweiler and she was busy taking the dog’s temperature etc. whilst the dog just slept. Grandpa came in and put the dog’s lead on saying time for walks. Our granddaughter ran after them both shouting “ don’t take my patient away!”.

A bee in the garden flew into a pile of old grass cuttings and I told my 3-year-old grandson that it had gone into its house. He promptly replied 'has it got a tv and a sofa?'