People say I am not a proper Grandad

Lawden... if you have 3 granddaughters, you are a proper Grandad

Of course you are a Grandad,how active you are doesn't affect the hierarchy,your father would then be great grandad....or am I misreading your question Lawden wish I had your energy

Of course you're a proper Grandad as soon as your grands were born you became one.. I think a lot of grandparents are so much more active and most still working nowadays, I've been a grandma for 25yrs and I'm only 63..

Whatever is supposed to make a 'proper' grandad?

I'm not a 'proper gran', but I am a gran all the same

I must admit if I had a choice I would not be getting out of bed at 5.30am to take my dog for a walk.
I am going to try taking him 2 minutes later per week and hopefully in just over 6 months I will be able to get up at 6.30 am instead of 5.30am.
I do not know if it will work but he is a great friend.
I may however be stuck with getting up at 5.30 until I am 70 or beyond.

Bags is definitely not at all proper.

Oh God! I'd better add a !

Lawden Your dog sounds like our "Barney" his body works on the same system as the clocks going backward and forward,when its light he is ready to go out for his first of 6 walks and when it is dark in the morning he sleep's in and has us both waiting for him so you can't win but so much more is done when you are awake early,mr.glamma is awake at 5am every morning after working continental shifts before he retired and then up at 5am to go to our bar/restaurant when we lived abroad so his body clock is well and truely fixed at that time.

Talking about dogs!
How is Donald doing?

Remind me "who is Donald" I seem to remember him just not connecting at the moment (senior moment)
Nice to see you back jeni hope you enjoyed you trip.

I did thanks.
Cast your mind back to Glastonbury Tor , and the party we had!

Good gracious - is donald a dog? What a wonderful name for a dog!

Teehee!

Oh yes I remember now I must be loosing my marbles my memory is shocking at the moment must be a blonde thing.
gally how I agree it is a fab name for a dog isn't it,when we had our bassett pups we had,Henry,Oliver,Mulberry,Jackson,Genevieve,Albert and Winston a Donald would have fitted in well.

Have you noticed how 'doggy' names are becoming more human and 'human' names are becoming more ......well, not human, I suppose!

Cats too - DS and family have a cat called Clive. And how did we meander into this from the OP?

How true gally I was on the bus last week and some young women called at her little girl her name was Piper couldn't believe my ears,I must admit though our dogs did have human tendencies sometimes and those big sad eyes and floppy ears remind me of many humans I have known lol. Going now off to watch Corrie,football finished.

I had a cat called Jeffrey...don't ask me why I haven't a clue

nelliedeane Do you know the poem by Christopher Smart that begins "When I consider my cat Jeffrey…"?

Lawden My daughter went through a phase of constantly telling me that I wasn't a proper mummy – one of her reasons being that I made bolognese sauce from fresh ingredients whereas proper mummies bought it in jars. I got fed up with being told this and eventually pointed out that as I had given birth to her, I was, de facto, a proper mummy. She thought about his for a while, disappeared into her bedroom for a while and then presented me with a hand-made "proper mummy box". Inside was a tiny hand-made book and on each page she had written about her proper mummy, saying such things as "You smell like a proper mummy". (I'm not sure how proper or for that matter, improper mummies are supposed to smell.) Absent daughter is now approaching 30, has five children of her own and I can vouch for her being a proper mummy. I still have the proper mummy box.

Oh absent what a lovely story.....no I don't know that poem but I will google it,my Jeffrey is no longer with us he has been gone over 9 years now and lived till he was 17

I think the poem is called In Jubilate Agno. Christopher Smart was a very eccentric man and poet, by the way.

Love that story too, absent

I got some weird looks from a weirdo student I knew who kept going on about how he had been reborn. I told him to go and speak to his mother about that because I was sure she'd tell him he had been born quite adequately the first time.

To give credit where due, I got that from somewhere else but can't remember where! Elizabeth von Arnim?

Dear Ladies,
Do we have a "Poets Corner" on this terrific "Magazine"?

How do we know where to offload our GDs new subjects?

I have this problem whenever I get onto anybodies website!!

I ave sometimes jumped into the middle of a completely different subject.{blush}