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

While tucking my grandson in bed one night he said "gran are you going to live a long time cos I love you, but when you die can I have your computer."

For my title when my grandson was born i chose Gransie as my daughter called me mumsie.When he was at nursery he came home and said his new friend had not attended that day, so I asked oh do you know why? yes he said he had to go and see his poorly gransie in hospital.I then realised all grandparents would now become Gransies.

We had bought our little grandaughter, Izzy, a doctor's kit for her birthday and I had added bandages and plasters for added fun. She loved it! One day I was looking after her and after a long and realistic game where I was the patient and she was the doctor - as always - I took her out to a garden centre where she enjoyed browsing and having a cake in the cafe as a treat. Throughout the visit, I was conscious of the fact that people seemed to be looking at me. As I think that one tends to become 'invisible' once reaching the age of 60+, I was flattered but rather surprised. It was not until we went back to the car that I noticed that my legs - I was wearing crops - were still swathed in bandages and plasters. Whoops!

After having highlights in my hair, my 5 year old granddaughter asked why my hair had gone white like Grandads!

Just last night, I was putting my 6 year old GS to bed. He cuddled up in my lap for his bedside story and nodded off before the end. As I carefully manoeuvred him out of my arms and into his bed, he opened his eyes and said in a sleepy little voice I do love you, Granny, you've got Dunlopillo arms. Needless to say, I floated back downstairs thinking, You're not plump....You're cuddly! Made my day

One very hot day we had my oldest grandson round who was about 7 at the time. His grandad devised a brilliant game using water pistols. They had makeshift shields for protection and ‘safety zones’ for when you felt you had been drenched enough. The game got very frantic and much hilarity ensued. Both participants became completely soaked after a while. My next door neighbour had been watching for sometime and eventually he popped his head over the fence and told me ‘I can’t decide whether I should phone social services or join in!’

We got our little darling a toy cleaning trolley with a long handled broom and a long handled mop. She now delights in trying to brush our hair with the broom and clean up our mouths with the mop - delightful

We'd gone out as a family for a lunchtime meal without anything to keep our granddaughter occupied who was 8 at the time.

I thought a game of noughts and crosses would pass the time and easy enough to play, I drew the first on a napkin and my granddaughter said that's a hashtag grandma #dumbfounded #neverfeltsoold

While in a restaurant one of my granddaughters heard the lady next to us coughing. She leant over, patted the woman’s back and said” Cough up Chicken” She was three at the time and that was what I always said to her if she coughed.

I went with my two Grandchildren to Hobbledown and they wanted to go on the 'High Ropes' course, so I went round with them incase the felt frightened. Needless to say they were fine, I was terrified especially when it came to the end and the only way down was on a zip wire. Well I screamed and screamed on the decent, they thought it was hilarious and at the same time embarrassing. Thinking that was the end of it, I couldn't believe it when my Granddaughter wrote about it in her school news. I would like to add that I am 70.

We were all out for a meal in a restaurant, my daughter, her husband, two granddaughters 4 and 7yrs, my husband and myself. My daughter was joking around and being funny. We were all enjoying ourselves. My youngest granddaughter (4yrs) turned to me and said to me with a big sigh, “Nana, sort your daughter out”.

Granddaughter (aged two and threequarters) decided to serve us afternoon tea. Using the voice of the Queen, she asked if we would like some 'tea' and of course we vigorously said how lovely a cup of tea would be.

She made the tea and solemnly asked in her queenly voice 'would you like some milllk' to which we responded 'yes, please', followed by 'would you like some 'shugaaar' and we again said yes please. There was then a significant pause before she added,,, 'and ice?'

Isabella asked me why my hair was grey, I said I needed to dye it. `Nanny don`t die` she said `I like your bag it has hearts on `

Nice to know your wanted for your handbag

Our granddaughter aged two recently stayed overnight. I put her in the travel cot and sang to her, until she fell asleep.
Once I thought she was asleep, I ran my bath and stripped off. (Not a pretty sight ?) Just as I was about to get into the bath, I heard a noise, then a little voice,saying: "Why have you got no clothes on gran? What you doing?" ? Somehow she had managed to get out of the cot, wandered out of the bedroom and got into the bathroom. "How on earth did you get out? ", I said. "I'll show you gran. Put me in the cot." She proceeded to show me how to get out of the cot. I spent most of the night, sleeping with one eye open.?

You know that feeling when you're asleep but get the sense someone is watching you? Waking up to find three year old Hattie standing stock still, one arm in the air wearing the foam cut out coronet from a trip to NY, declaring in the darkness "I'm the statue of liberty!". Yikes!

Our first grandchild Chloe has just turned three and is developing nicely despite spending time with us grandparents when both her mummy and daddy have to be at work at the same time.
She's been talking quite well for some time now and has mastered quite a vocabulary but we have begun to introduce some niceties so we have have nice conversations.
The other morning she was drawing pictures in the lounge and asked granddad "Can I have the tele on?"
Granddad replied "What's the magic word?" and without looking up from her drawing simple said "Abwa-cadabwa" which wasn't bad for the first attempt at the word we'd heard her make. Such deadpan humour at her age made us both laugh out loud.

I was walking two of my grand daughters, aged 3 and 2 in the garden of one of their mums, the 2 yo got bird droppings on her hand and as I was wiping it off the 3 yo walked into the side of the low paddling pool and fell in. My 6 yo grandson ran in to ask if she had a change of clothes, I was very unpopular and not trusted with either of them again for a while !

It had been raining heavily and wellies were the order of the day for our twin boys. We decided to venture out for a walk to the local play ground with my famous last words ‘don’t run or you will slip over in the mud. So what happened ? The boys all thought it was brilliant fun to chase each other around until one fell over and got completely covered in mud and soaking wet.
Blanket out of the boot of the car, clothes off and home in pants !

Playing midnight badminton in the garden during the summer with the moonlight, great fun

When one of our grandsons drew a cat face on his brother's faec while he was alsleep. It wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't used a black permanent marker pen.

We were on a cable car going up The Heights of Abraham in Derbyshire whilst away on holiday. I was explaining that the car doesn't stop at the top, keeps slowly moving so we would have to get off quickly without any messing about. Half way up, it slows right down for you to admire the view. In a complete panic our 6 year old granddaughter yelled 'Do we really have to get out here?'. We all howled with laughter!

When they came down from playing upstairs in my bikinis, hairpieces and winter thick black tights - (they are both boys !) they looked HILARIOUS

My granddaughter is now aged 11 (going on 31), and when she was around 6, she decided to dress up her grandad (as little girls do) when she had finished grandad said to her 'do I look pretty', and quick as a flash she said 'yes pretty awful' .....we couldn't stop laughing. She still comes out with random sayings now, and her nick name is #H.

One of my grandsons used to suffer from low blood sugar.

He always took delight in phoning to tell me that he had to go to hossipickle in an abulans!

I am famous in my home town, thanks to my grandchildren! I decided to take the youngest three swimming at our local pool, and they have recently had renovations done, so everything was shiny and new...and very stiff. I always nip to the loo before the pool, so I did, the children waiting for me outside. I went to open the door to leave, and found the locks were so new and stiff I couldn't undo them!
The oldest grandchild was 10, but hes a tiny thing, and as I called through the door to him, he just started laughing, which set the other two off, and soon I had a huge crowd waiting outside while the manager was called.
Someone could have possibly climbed over, but these cubicles were so tiny...
Anyway, a friend of mine was also there by chance, and she kept an eye on the kids, and started the entire crowd off singing a song....
"Oh Dear, what can the Matter be, Nanny Pearl is stuck in the lavatory, Big bum is stuck from monday to saturday, poor old Nanny Pearl!"
I managed to get out thanks to a very agile young man climbing over the top, while I wedged myself onto the toilet....
The kids haven't stopped singing the song since.