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That's nice Cynthia !

My grand-daughter says mine is 'double double yuuumm' and my 2 year old grandson now says it is 'Deeeee.....lishush' !

I think they mean the same thing (tee hee).

Dea x

Its what the much older grandmother does isnt it??Cook cakes and stuff for the grandkids,then sit in the rocking chair by the fire knitting and sewing stuff that the grandkids will never wear as its not got the right label on it...!

Looked in on my home from work

Wondered if anyone can help with this


http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/trying_to_find/scammell/thread/1263672

Will be picking up little 6 year old grand-daughter from school tomorrow and have to rush across to take her to a school on the other side of town where she will be 'representing her school' in a 'Cross Country Festival' !!!

Not quite as grand as it sounds - they seem to have to volunteer rather than be 'selected', but anyway, I am really proud of her - she says that almost all the other 'volunteers' are boys !!

She is growing up Soooo quickly, I can't believe it !!

Dea Xxx

Don't do knitting!

Don't do sewing!

Hate cooking!

Haven't got a rocking chair!

Don't wrap meself up in a shawl either!

Got all me own teef!


Obviously a failure as an older grandmother :))





Granddaughter going to a fashion show tonight. We picked up her stuff from home after school, and when we arrived back here, she showered and got ready. When dad came for them, she primped her way out of the house hitching up the back of her jeans as she shimmied down the path.........so grown up and funny......and oh so cute!

They do grow up quickly unfortunatly Dea

My two are 19 and 14 and it was quite nice today to speak to the elder one who wanted a day trip to London saturday but had no one to go with.
I suggested she asked her sister and she said "thats a good idea I think I will she will enjoy that" well that did surprise me as they are always fighting but now they are both getting to an age where they have something in common.....shopping, but they will still probably fight.

Cross country is'nt that running? did that once at school had to stop because I needed a fag lol

ja...x

Yeh - It IS 'running Ja....x - I am ' LERGIC' to it too !!!

Dea Xxx

Hi all
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heavy rain, and high winds today



March going out like a lion?



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Can knit

don't like cooking

can sew

have a rocking chair ................ had it since before J arrived 37 years ago. Lovely and comfy, upholstered Danish chair. Been recovered once (we did it ouselves). Needs re-doing again.

Got all my own teef

don't have a shawl ............. do have throws and stoles


very much a failure as an older grandma!



:)))




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Had a look "over there", saw all dally's spouting off



well, now we know not to offer advice to her!




and her cert arrived, confirming her guess.





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FORGET Dilly Dally Sylvs - You can't be a failure as a grandma !! - You are such SO lovely !!!

Dea Xxx

Sylvia she ain't worth the bother. As you have most probably already seen I suggested we just ignore each other and yet she carries on spouting. Perhaps she is hoping for a retaliation but she won't get it from me.

I don't care what her opinion of me is. I would be more upset if I had upset anyone from this thread and others on the FB page Of course she ain't going to like me because I asked GR directly about lookups on their FB page and they agreed that that was not the purpose of the page. She thinks I bullied GR when in fact I put a rational argument which they agreed with otherwise they would not have agreed. I will just ignore her.

Ok


forgotten!


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Well done Sylvs - I HOPE you mean it !!!

Dea Xxx

Can knit

Can cook basic things but make a mean roast lamb dinner

Can't sew to save my life. In sewing class at school the teacher just tutted and shook her head. Never ever used the sewing machine in school, just unpicked things. Took it home and Sis would run whatever it was in an hour. To avoid wasting material Sis would cut pattern at home. She was really good. She would buy a pattern and material on a Saturday morning an run it up and wear it to go out in that evening.

I'm with Dea too....yep forget the other side. We're much more interesting over here.............hahahaha boring but interesting!



My friend's husband's funeral is next Wednesday so will have to do a shuffle re the school run.

I used to be really good at sewing .......... made my own things from very young.

The first dress I made was in a school sewing class. I was 9-10. The next year (last year of elementary) I made a dress ......... it had a separate bodice and skirt, bodice had set-in sleeves, skirt had 5 hand-sewn rows so that it could be gathered on to the bodice. I hated doing those gathering rows ................. I had to undo them so many times because the teacher insisted that every stitch be the same length

Next year, I went to Grammar School .............. did Cookery the first year, and Mum had to make the full-cover apron that I would have had to make if I'd been assigned to sewing. It was a very simple pattern!

Did have Sewing Class in 2nd year ............. we made pyjamas. The teacher used the same pattern for everyone in the class. I was one of the tallest ......... the legs ended at mid-calf, the arms at mid-forearm. The shortest girl walked on the legs of her pyjamas.

Mum literally cried when I took the finished product home

Luckily, there was a lot of material left over .............. so we added pieces to the legs and arms!


I even learnt how to do some tailoring when I went to work on Saturdays at the same dress shop where Mum worked .....................I was just about 12 then, and they assigned me to help in the "sewing room" where they did alterations, and made clothes.

That was where I managed to run the sewing machine needle right through the nail on my left forefinger!




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I used to be able to knit but it always started orf with half the stiches it ended up with!

We learned in junior school in the 70s....dont they teach it any longer!!

OOOhh Ouch !!!Sylvia............ That must have hurt !!!

Dea Xxx

Do you know Dea, I can't remember. I think it did ........ all I can remember is sitting there and looking at the needle in my finger!


................. and I'd been using a sewing machine for several years by that point


Needless to say, didn't go to the doctor .................... someone put a bandage on it, then warned that I'd better not get any blood on any of the dresses!


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