Ask yer Granny!

salome

My maternal gran's house smelt of damp and was creepy. I wouldn't go upstairs on my owm, due mainly to my lovely big brother telling me my grandad's body was up in the attic, I used to think it came alive at night times ?????!!!!!! Also, because she was an alcoholic, the house smelt of brandy, a smell she bought to our house when she moved in with us, it's a smell I still can't stand.
My paternal grans house was cold and un-welcome, and I can't remember any smells. Although she was a good cook, she never seemed to bake when I was there, so no baking smells coming from the kitchen. Grandad had his chair, which was placed in front of the tele, and gran had to sit in a chair opposite him. Visitors sat at the back of the room, on the settee !! We weren't allowed to talk when he was watching anything, and only programs that he liked were allowed to be watched.
My grandchildren will remember smells from our smelly Rottie lol. I hope they will remember baking smells, even though we only have a very little time with them here. Though I tend to think it will be smells of body sprays and hair sprays, and perfume, their aunties are continually spraying that will fix firmly in their memory smells lol :-)

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mardatha

One thing that screams out of these pages for me is that being poor doesnt matter to children. being cuddly and baking does ! Isnt it sad to think your grandkids will only remember you for being made to sit in a corner and be quiet because you were watching telly? These memories last a lifetime, maybe we should try harder LOL!
Salome my mum drank as well, and the smell of Drambuie still turns my stomach. That and the sticky rings it leaves on furniture.

Memory_Girl

Not a Granny - but just a Mum.

DS1 - who is 11, spent last night cuddled in a blanket on a sofa with his head on my lap as I knitted a cardi for his little brother.

Just a quiet time the two of us - but so precious now that he is growing up. I'd like to think we did more than snuggle last night - I'd like to think we created a memory that he will tell his kids about.

MG

Hardup_Hester

I have my DGC's over one at a time sometimes & we bake together, so I'm hoping they will remember that. DGD1 is fascinated by my hair, it is almost down to my waist & when she see's me she say's 'Take your comb out Nana' I also made her a shoe box cot for her dolly, an octopus for each of them, the same way as the doll mentioned in an earlier post & this morning I gave them the mittens I'd knitted for Christmas as they are going to a firework display.
Hester

suzybloo

Being a granny now myself - the wee man is coming up for 3 - I wonder what he will remember when he is older? Hopefully it will be the homely things too, when we cuddle up at night he says 'granny you sing' (I cannot sing for toffee!) so we have the old classics Ali bali Bee and you canny shove yer granny off the bus - and goodness knows how many times that woman comes round the mountain wearing her khaki bloomers! - hopefully this memory will be as special to him as it is to me. He has been on the phone this morning already asking to bake cakes when he comes this afternoon, so already these wee things are meaning something to him. It does go to show though that memories cost nothing to make.
Oh Mar, about sitting in the corner not being allowed to speak must have been the norm - remember Saturday afternoon when the wrestling was on you werent allowed to make a peep and jings it got worse when the football scores came on after the wresting just incase the coupon came up and they missed the draw they needed!

mardatha

My saturday memories are the horse racing and my dad vanishing to the bookies runner who hung about round the back of the pub Then a bottle of coke and pkt of crisps and my pocket money
Also of reading constantly reading in my bed with a torch or in winter, in the airing cupboard with a torch. LOL I like the dark I read all the "Just William" books and then all the Famous Five and then all the Chalet School, and then John Buchan.
I remember shoe box dolls cots and my dad made parachutists out of plastic bags tied to clothes pegs

VJsmum

mardatha wrote: »

then all the Chalet School,

I LOVE THE CHALET SCHOOL :j:j:T

I don't think i've read them all, but i had a good go at many. I used to go to the library on a Saturday afternoon and spend ages reading books there and then choosing some to take back home to read. The Chalet school featured heavily then. I have been to Achensee in Austria, which was "Tiernsee" in the books and there really is a place called Scholastika. Spent ages wandering round spotting which chalet was the most likely school :rotfl:

I liked Biddy O'Rien, Mary Lou Trelawney and, of course, Jo.

I still read them sometimes.:o

Not famous five tho - can't bloody stand Enid Blyton :eek: and don't even get me started on Beatrix Potter

mardatha

Oh wow imagine going to Tiernsee ! LOL !! Well I got tired of the FF when I got old enought o realise if I was in their lives then I'd be one of "the village children" or "the fisher boy" or "cook's awful child" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Ok so I'm a peasant. I'm coping with it!

Bitsy_Beans

I'll second the kids and baking. DS is always asking to do some baking although I suspect he likes licking the bowl bit the most
As for their memory of granny......I'd say it will be her large lounge that they get to race up and down in, like they did last night LOL
It's a pity my dad is not longer a mechanic as I have great affection for him coming home smelling of engine oil and the garage and the smell of Swarfega. I also love the smell of petrol thanks to growing up next to the garage where dad worked.
As for my grandparents......only one memory smell from one of them, Old Spice and I can't stand it. H came home with some one night (what possessed him I don't know) and I took it back for a refund.

3v3

EstherH wrote: »

Aren't there twenty posts to everyone's page?

No. That is the default setting

Go to "User CP" on the above green menu bar.

On the left hand side panel, under the emboldened "Settings and Options", select "Edit Options".

You'll now see a page of grey boxes with headings such as:-
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~ Thread Display Options => it is here that you can choose to display 5, 10, 20, 30 or 40 posts per page.

So, if a thread has 40 posts and your display option is say, 5 .... that would mean the thread has 8 pages! However, if your display option is set at 40 posts, then your settings would show the thread as only having 1 page. As your particular settings are at the default of 20 posts per page, that means it would show on your screen as being 2 pages long

Once you have selected the thread display options you prefer, scroll down further and click on "Save Changes"

Now, the advantage is: the thread shows more posts per page and less pages per thread.

The disadvantage is: if you are in the habit of reading *every* post in a thread ... it won't make you read any quicker!

Overall though, it does mean you don't have to (potentially) click forward or backward through more pages than absolutely necessary and that could be a potential time saver overall - well, if every second is precious (and I'm sure, for most of us, it is)

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