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A birthday present from us to you!

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CariGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 26-Apr-12 11:16:37

As you know we will be celebrating our first birthday on 5th May - and to say thank you for making it a really special year we have put together a fabulous goodie box as a gift for one lucky Gransnetter.

All you have to do to enter is post on this thread telling us your favourite Gransnet moment from the last year.

The prize includes chocolate from Montezuma's Great British Pudding range, a bottle of No.3 gin and some fabulous books and the winner will be picked at random on Monday 7th May.

absentgrana Fri 04-May-12 17:25:29

This has been a most interesting and informative thread – with so many names I have never seen before. As a miserable old cynic, I might even suggest that it is my favourite.

sylvia1231 Fri 04-May-12 17:01:58

Happy Birthday To You Gransnet.
I'm a quite new member and my favourite moment has been your email to tell me that I had won a copy of of 'The House on Paradise Street'. I'm so looking forward to reading it and to the next year enjoying Gransnet!

jeni Fri 04-May-12 16:17:43

Gransnet is the best invention since VODKA, and that says it all!

HAPPY BITHDAY! [hic]

Anagram Fri 04-May-12 15:52:48

My thoughts entirely, glass! The more the merrier! Or at least, the more wine the merrier....hmm

glassortwo Fri 04-May-12 15:50:44

There have been some lovely messages from Gransnetters posting for the first time. sunshine Now that you have taken the plunge we would love it if you joined us regularly on the threads. Come and join us for brew cupcake wine and a chat.

auntbett Fri 04-May-12 15:31:35

I don't know that I can call it a favourite moment - I'm quite new to Gransnet and often just read the other members' comments sometimes for encouragement and sense with family matters, sometimes just to make me smile. It's like having a good friend or a listening ear nationwide all encapsulated in the community of Gransnet. Many thanks.

annemac101 Fri 04-May-12 15:22:11

I can't believe you're one year old. My favourite moment was writing a guest blogpost. It was so lovely and so flattering to be one of your guest bloggers,it's something I won't forget so thank you.

lighty Fri 04-May-12 14:51:20

Its become a highlight of my inbox - always left to read after "de-junking" the rest.
Here's to the next year and summer sunshine! flowers

mazgoli Fri 04-May-12 14:00:12

I don't have a favourite moment, I love to read the newsletter and being fairly new to Grandmotherhood really love reading all the articles and letters from other Gransnetters. Its great to have a site where everything is relevant to me, where everyone understands that for some it's impossible to laugh or cough without being in view of a loo, where forgetting what you did this morning is not crazy, but quite normal! Please keep up the good work, and congratulations for reaching this milestone.

imjingl Fri 04-May-12 12:19:50

Oh that's nice DazR! smile

DazR Fri 04-May-12 12:13:54

Oh - the wonderful afternoon I spent perusing the interesting thread on hymns. Brought back so many memories and re-engaged me with old favourites. Spent the rest of the week singing!!!

helmacd Fri 04-May-12 12:07:11

My memory is of actually getting the hang of 'posting' on a forum. Trouble is I've never found my way back to said forum to see if anyone responded! No doubt I won't find this one again either! Happy Birthday anyway!

Lizzieanne Fri 04-May-12 11:09:50

One of he best birthday presents I had last year was finding Gransnet - my birthday is 6th May so I must have been one of the first to find you! So Happy Birthday to us both. x

GrandmaH Fri 04-May-12 10:42:55

My Favorite moment was FINDING Gransnet a short while ago. I am addicted!
I am telling all my friends about it- a grown up site with things I want to read about & the message board members have already helped me through a very emotional family situation.
I am so glad I am a member of Gransnet now!!
H

imjingl Wed 02-May-12 10:36:45

Oh! I remember! grin

(took me a while grin)

CariGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 02-May-12 10:31:20

PS (belatedly) jingl - your picture is correct grin

glammanana Tue 01-May-12 22:39:22

jack Sorry I have only just seen your post and your question,yes at the end of last year when you know how it is when xmas is looming and you are looking for that something special for over the holidays,well DD in her wisdom let it slip that she thought I was to old to keep my long hair (shock-horror) but I took it the wrong way and was pretty upset about it as I have always kept my hair in tip-top condition,so we had a discussion and I decided not to have it cut,so I kept it long (not cut off and kept)as I may have implied.So it is now much longer than it was and is middle of back,kept tidy by updo's/ ponytails /and plait.

KCM Tue 01-May-12 17:43:40

Good Luck for the future!

kittylester Mon 30-Apr-12 18:37:02

I couldn't pick a best bit. I just worry that I might miss something! sad The best part is the support that people rush to give anyone who needs it, oh and the silliness, oh and the spats, oh and the new babies, oh and everything really.

AlisonMA Mon 30-Apr-12 12:34:53

I think mine is yet to come. I only joined a few days ago and was delighted to find posts on so many subjects of interest to me. Glass seems to keep poping up in support of everyone else so I hope she is getting any support she needs.

I look forward to getting to know you.

jack Sun 29-Apr-12 19:21:35

glammanana, please explain. Are you saying you still have long hair? Or that you have kept the clippings? Sometimes Gransnet is totally beyond me. But I love it, and am so glad I joined.

PatB Sun 29-Apr-12 18:42:51

I've only just joined and am already enjoying the forums ... it's great to find other grandma's with the same questions I have!

MaggieP Sun 29-Apr-12 18:33:20

My most entertaining moments last year were the contributions from so many fellow GNs on the organisation of a party,such thought and fun comments made it all seem alive, let's have many more please.sunshine

justrolljanet Sun 29-Apr-12 11:08:11

My favourite moment was just finding all the other gransnetters threads and realising that I was just as nutty/normal/mad as the rest of them smile)

glassortwo Sat 28-Apr-12 20:52:32

annobel you cant rush things. grin