Welcome to new members

Can someone explain how 'flip' works please

I've been a granny for 5years now & I am delighted to have found gransnet forum I have not been drawn to other social media sites,so I'm looking forward to sharing & reading views of like minded grannies .

Welcome to all you new members - hope you enjoy the forum, there's always something interesting to read.

Welcome Shanma and Skylarker . I hope you will both enjoy Gransnet. There is loads of interesting, helpful and amusing stuff on here!

Hello, I've been browsing and very pleased to be here. My OH was already Grandpa when we met. I'm now Grandma, as my mum was, and we're called Marmar and Parpar by my 2 toddler grandchildren ( mispronunciation which stuck) and my 4 step grandchildren, who are older, call me by my first name. Don't really care what I'm called just so love having grandchildren! It's such a revelation!

Hello! I joined last night. I did leave a post on the thread about Handsome Men, then I saw this one for new members so I guess I was supposed to come here first.
I will have a good look around later when I get some free time, I hope to become and " Active" member.

Hello GrannyGrum, welcome . I hope you will get to spend plenty of time with your GD in the future. You have had such a great opportunity to bond with her, wonderful for her and for you. I am sure you will love GN, but you don't have to be a grandparent to enjoy it.

Hello All. I've been a granny for almost a year and am loving every minute. Daughter, son-in-law (SiL?) and gorgeous granddaughter (DGD?) - I need to get up to speed with the acronyms - have been living with us for five months whilst they do building work on their place but have just moved back home so I'm missing the little one terribly! Though NOT the mess. Was delighted to come across this site as not many of my friends are grandparents yet.

Hi Ulli58,
I also live in Oxfordshire. I have 2 daughters , each with 3 children, ages between 11 and 17. I miss the fun times playing with them when they were smaller. They do their own thing these days.

Welcome Harrietrose . Grandchildren are a bit like buses aren't they? You wait for ages then several come along. I haven't applied for a book club book recently, as I found I couldn't finish in time to make comments. When I did I was usually successful, so give it a try. I also won a few competitions. There are many more members now, so had no luck for a while. Hope you will enjoy all aspects of the site.

Wellcome to all

Joined today 3 grandchildren and one on the way and I thought I would never have any. Interested in the book group and looking forward to seeing what else grans net has to offer

Hello shysal, thank you for your welcome! I am in the UK (Oxfordshire) and have lived in this country for many years though am originally from Berlin. Yes, the discussion topics on gransnet look at least as good as as those at the 'other place' and I can see that wasting spending time on these is very easy to do ... how many children and grandchildren do you have? I have two children and a grandchild from each of them.

Hello Ulli58, welcome . Are you in the UK or further afield? I hope you will enjoy Gransnet, not quite so much reading matter on here compared to the 'other place'. I seem to get little done without wasting spending time on there as well!

Hello, I joined today. I am Omi to both my children's children. This is equivalent to granny. My partner who is not my children's father is Opa Rich.
I am looking forward to reading and participating in all sorts of discussions- am already an avid reader of what appear to be intriguing mumsnet threads.

Welcome Grannyruns and DaisyMay27 . I hope you will both enjoy grandparenthood. You have years of fun ahead. Enjoy Gransnet too!

Hi, I am going to be a grandma in 3 more weeks I am so looking forward to it.

Hi everyone! Thanks for this amazing resource to whoever devised and maintains. I became a new Gransey on Sunday 18/9/16 to beautiful little PJ!
Looking forward mostly to reading and learning from those more experienced, as with most things in life, total respect to anyone willing to share advice and funnies? One day I hope to maybe have some advice to share? Very lucky to have raised 3 beautiful children myself very easily but somehow this very new situation seems a little scarier? Perhaps just unfamiliar?
Not living close to the new family will present a problem later but I guess that's what Facetime and Skype are for, thank goodness for new technology, may I always be able to work it out?? ?

Thank you for your welcome shysal, I feel 'official' now I've introduced myself.

Hello Susie65 and maddyone, welcome to you both . I hope you enjoy Gransnet. It can be a real time-waster, but I would hate to be without it. It was my first and only forum, joined at the beginning. It didn't take long to get the hang of it. Don't be embarrassed if you do a few daft things, it still happens to me - things like accidentally duplicating a post, and adding to an old thread because I didn't take note of the date. I am still able to kill a thread stone dead too!

GoGranjo My first grandchild was born in 2012 when I was 64. I felt quite scared when I first minded him I felt I had forgotten what to do but it all came back. Nothing much has changed in looking after a baby.

Hello everyone, I've been reading grandest for several months and have made a very few posts, but have never introduced myself. I have 3 grandchildren, a boy aged 4 and twins aged 2 and a half, a boy and a girl. I enjoy reading all the different posts, but have only posted myself a few times. Looking forward to reading grander for a long time.

I've just joined up and familiarising myself with the site and comments. I've never joined a forum before and not sure how it all works, but I'll get the hang of it

Thank you Shysal and Pittcity

Hello GoGranjo, welcome . You have years of fun as a grandparent ahead of you! I am sure your instinct will kick in. I hope you will enjoy Gransnet.

Welcome everyone and many thanks to shysal for greeting each new gransnetter individually
Look forward to hearing from you all and hope that you seek out your local Gransnet pages too.