Stranger giving your child money

j-josie

hightara wrote: »

happens all the time here in northern ireland

Lol, I remember sending DD and DS over to stay with their granny in NI for a week in the school holidays. They took £17 spending money with them, came home with lots of new toys and £18 in their purse/wallet! Every time they went up the village street with granny, someone would stop to admire the wee English grandchildren and press money into their hands... They thought it was the best thing ever, and the Northern Irish the friendliest people in the world (also that granny knew everyone in Ireland as she knew so many people in the village...:rotfl:)

scottishchick27

Spendless wrote: »

I've heard of a variation on what koalamummy talks about. To give a child a silver coin to hold for good luck. When my DD was born, my husband's friends parents came to visit us and that's what the woman did. I thanked her for her gift whislt watching dd like a hawk to make sure she didn't put it in her mouth and removed it as soon as I could. On bumping into one of my Grandmother's in town, when I was with my DD a few years back, she gave her money to spend, so I agree it's a generation and possibly geographical 'thing' to do.

Every time I take my baby into town and we meet someone who hasn't met him before they give him a coin. I think it's an old tradition for luck, it's been lucky for me as I've bought lots of things for him with all the coins as they fairly add up!

marathon_man_3

I am an older guy, in his mid-60s, and live way up north in the Shetland Islands. I also don't see my grandchildren very often (all down south) and have often looked at some of the families with young kids who look as if they could do with the odd fiver also. I have not given them anything as I felt that it would bring about a "pervert" reaction and that would be a very unwelcome tag within such a smallish community as we have here.
Heartened by some of the comments here, I might give it a try on the odd occasion now.

OrkneyStar

marathon_man wrote: »

I am an older guy, in his mid-60s, and live way up north in the Shetland Islands. I also don't see my grandchildren very often (all down south) and have often looked at some of the families with young kids who look as if they could do with the odd fiver also. I have not given them anything as I felt that it would bring about a "pervert" reaction and that would be a very unwelcome tag within such a smallish community as we have here.
Heartened by some of the comments here, I might give it a try on the odd occasion now.

You'd be more than welcome to try it out in Orkney, also an island community yet not home, just let me know when you get off the boatd/plane and DS will be waiting .

sabretoothtigger

Is it snowing on Orkney too right now or ironically hot and sunny

OrkneyStar

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Is it snowing on Orkney too right now or ironically hot and sunny

No snow.
Not been outside today but been very cold and windy recently (though thankfully not gale force!).

valk_scot

marathon_man wrote: »

I am an older guy, in his mid-60s, and live way up north in the Shetland Islands. I also don't see my grandchildren very often (all down south) and have often looked at some of the families with young kids who look as if they could do with the odd fiver also. I have not given them anything as I felt that it would bring about a "pervert" reaction and that would be a very unwelcome tag within such a smallish community as we have here.
Heartened by some of the comments here, I might give it a try on the odd occasion now.

I'd stick to £1 or £2 coins rather than £5 notes. Little kids like "pennies", especially shiney ones. And £5 is a bit too much coming from a stranger tbh. You're more likely to get a strange look and a refusal for a note than for a £1 coin out your loose change.

marathon_man_3

OrkneyStar wrote: »

You'd be more than welcome to try it out in Orkney, also an island community yet not home, just let me know when you get off the boatd/plane and DS will be waiting .

My wife and I are actually coming down to Orkney at the end of June for 15 nights, taking our car on the ferry.
We are in Kirkwall for the first night, Sandwick for a week, then Deerness, Dounby,Westray,Eday,Stronsay and the last night in Orphir. We stayed in Sanday and Kirkwall previously but want to see more of the other islands this time around. We will be having a number of ferry trips around and we will definitely make it to Papa Westray this time.
As for the weather right now, probably as in Orkney, we have a smattering of snow on the hilltops this morning but virtually nothing elsewhere. It is very breezy though which makes it feel really cold.

OrkneyStar

marathon_man wrote: »

My wife and I are actually coming down to Orkney at the end of June for 15 nights, taking our car on the ferry.
We are in Kirkwall for the first night, Sandwick for a week, then Deerness, Dounby,Westray,Eday,Stronsay and the last night in Orphir. We stayed in Sanday and Kirkwall previously but want to see more of the other islands this time around. We will be having a number of ferry trips around and we will definitely make it to Papa Westray this time.
As for the weather right now, probably as in Orkney, we have a smattering of snow on the hilltops this morning but virtually nothing elsewhere. It is very breezy though which makes it feel really cold.

I must admit to not having been to all of the isles yet, but working through my list gradually . Hope you have a great time- we might well be having our two days of summer in June, though sometimes we have to wait until August . Much nicer today here, less wind, very little snow in my part of the island .

anderson8

Thought of this thread when I was watching call the midwife this week.
Set in Poplar, London in the 1950s and someone gave a baby a silver coin