FabSwingers.com forum: Memories of grandparents

By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

I have very fond memories of my grandparents.

I remember what a great cook my grandma was. Especially cake-baking.

My grandma's larder and its smell.

Evaporated milk, tinned pears or strawberries.

My grandma used to wear a hat with a hatpin stuck in it ... used to think it went through her head as a child.

Oh yes and never saw her without a apron even if she wasn't cooking or cleaning except on very special occasions.

I can remember sitting on my granddads knee and him bouncing me up and down. he used to smoke a pipe and always smelt of tobacco.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My Grandfather smoked Three Nuns in his pipe.

They were both proud of their garden nursery , which is run down now , and their rough collies , one of which we took on when they were both gone.

They were supportive and encouraging and interested in everything we did .

We become Grandparents in June .

God knows what our grand kids will think of us

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"My Grandfather smoked Three Nuns in his pipe.

They were both proud of their garden nursery , which is run down now , and their rough collies , one of which we took on when they were both gone.

They were supportive and encouraging and interested in everything we did .

We become Grandparents in June .

God knows what our grand kids will think of us

Sitting on my Grandad's knee while he was driving and pretending to steer the car (pre H&S days!)...Well, he said he was my Grandad and I was 26 at the time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Both my maternal Grandads dressed gangster style like James Cagney. Always in a suit, white shirt, tie and waist coat, topped off with wide brim trilby hat.

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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

"My Grandfather smoked Three Nuns in his pipe.

They were both proud of their garden nursery , which is run down now , and their rough collies , one of which we took on when they were both gone.

They were supportive and encouraging and interested in everything we did .

We become Grandparents in June .

God knows what our grand kids will think of us

my granddad smoked brown twist

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My nan bought me up . Without her I would be not be the man I am today

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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

"My nan bought me up . Without her I would be not be the man I am today"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never knew my dads parents and luckily my mums parents are still with me.

In the passed 6/7 years they have actually turned out to be more like parents and best friends. I love them dearly. I dont even want to think about loosing them, however i have noticed health issues with them both becoming more obvious

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well I could not read and wright as a kid my gran would read me storys ... and I looked at the pics in my books and she would read the storys to me . She lived next door and could not move out of her seat at 8 I was making her meals and cakes .

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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

My grandad use to take me down his allotment to feed the birds and loved to play the banjo

My grandma was also always baking and making big meat and potato pies ......I still cant make them like her

How times have changed and how much we miss them

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By *eaverfeverCouple
over a year ago

nr Manchester

Male half.my grandad is my hero we did everything together he took me to old Trafford every home game was always making me laugh. World's a boring place without him

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

Watching Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Mick McManus, Kendo Nagasaki et al on World of Sport on a Saturday afternoon at Grandma's house and Grandma booing the baddies!

On my twin brother and sister's 10th birthday, Grandma walked down to our house carrying the trifle she'd made for the party - put it on the table, said she felt faint, sat down on the sofa and died! She'd always had angina for as long as I remember and died instantly - the Dr said that if he'd been sat next to her, he couldn't have done anything, it was a massive heart attack. I was 17 and then had to ring round telling the 10 year olds that the party was cancelled - my kid sister's best friend lived a few doors up and came down anyway as I didn't think to ring there anyway - she and my sister were sat eating trifle and Ann says to my sister "Did your Grandma make the trifle before she died?" We were all pissing ourselves laughing as well as crying!!!

I've just got a tear in my eye relating that story after almost 30 years!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was lucky , I knew both of my maternal great grandparents , my great grandmother died just before I met Mrs J in 1986.

Paternally I lost my grandfather in 1973 ( that was the only time I ever saw my dad cry) and my grandmother in 1985 ish.

Maternally my grandmother died in 2002 and my grandfather a couple of years ago so I am grandparent less now .

I knew Mrs J's grandmother but she lost all the others many years ago .

I am beginning to realise that as a grandfather I have a lot to live up to as it has become obvious now that we are going to be important in someone's life soon.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I didn't know any of them.

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By *oulou45Woman
over a year ago

Bucks

I wasd very close to my grandparents on my mums side,its hard to believe they have been dead 38 and 40 yrs. I have such fond memories, I was a real grandads girl. My dads,dad died 33 yrs ago none of us were close to him he was always shouting. We never met my dads mum she died when he was 5.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

Another memory...my paternal Gran died when my younger sister was 8 months pregant and she asked me if she could borrow a black skirt off me for the funeral - it bloody well fell off her (I was a bit heavier then!) BITCH!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My nan ran a Brixton boozer for 30 years and swore like a trooper and could knock a man out with one punch

Fuck I miss her

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my grandparents lived just down the road from us, they looked after me when i was little so my mum could have a part time job.

i liked it at their house because it was quieter, cleaner and tidier.

we drank tea out of china tea cups instead of mugs.

my grandad was very old i got him to play happy families with me, we didnt play it right though because we didnt know how too.

he made me laugh because he used to get confused. when my grandad died i used to stay the night and my gran used to give me sherry, i was only 12.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not close to mine on both sides, as they had favourites, and I could not be arsed to suck up to them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My nan ran a Brixton boozer for 30 years and swore like a trooper and could knock a man out with one punch

Fuck I miss her

Your nan and mine sound related! I have never seen anyone throw a right hook like my nan!

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By *renchbambi xWoman
over a year ago

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Family meals were quite an affair when I was younger. My grand dad would sit at one end of the table - he was the Patriarch and my Grand ma at the other...closer to the kitchen - what a great cook she was and so funny. Children were only allowed to be seen, not heard but not one of the kids present would have dared interrupt my Grand dad telling us stories of his life during the war, of blowing up railway tracks, passing contreband letters to the resistance, making soap from remains of soap, my grand ma using black pencil to trace a line at the back of her calf to pretend she had tights on.....

I could go on but I need a tissue!

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

My only lasting memories of my maternal granmother were sitting in her living room doing a jigsaw puzzle and the final memory is sadly of her being loaded into an ambulance.

I believe she died a few days later. I do not have any memories of my maternal grandfather although I have his pocket watch which I cherish.

My paternal grandfather was killed in the First World War. My memories of my paternal grandmother are of her in bed and very ill with a respority disease due to her smoking so much! I recently saw some pictures of her taken some 90 years ago and she looked the same in those as she does in my memories! I have a small brass bell of hers that I would always ring as we came into her house. Dad`s brother promised it to me when Gran died and he kept his promise bless him!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't have memories of my grandparents all died wen I was young but I am a nan to a lively 4 yr old and hope to make loads of memories for him.... Inc sitting on my knee and pretending to drive the car,,, but only down my rd which is a cul de sac.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved my Granma with all my heart, when she died I was heartbroken I swear I actually felt pain

My partents was basically shit, my dad was a alcoholic we had nothing at all, everything we owned he sold for booze, me and my sister was taken into care as young children and my Gran came and saved us from the care homes, she bought up 12 kids and worked all her life, when me and my sister moved in she still had 5 of her own children living at home but she still made room for us and loved us liked my real mum never did

I always remember the chickens, she had a big back yard with free roaming chickens on it, I used to love going to feed them, and going to pick the eggs that she would then boil up for tea, nothing quite tasted as good as eggs you collected yourself when your a child

And xmas was always great at her house, she wasn't rich and we didn't get loads but what she did buy she bought with love

I loved her so much, she was a great women, it was the only home I had where I felt loved

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't remember my grandpa as died when I was a baby but my nana was ace. I remember when I was 14 she caught me smoking instead of telling me off gave me money for fags. Miss you Nan

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watching Dallas with my grandad on a Saturday night while my mum and dad were out. Silly I know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had no Grandparents, my dads Parents stayed in Hungry when he came over in 1956 and died before I was born. And my Mums Parents died when she was a Teenager x

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"I loved my Granma with all my heart, when she died I was heartbroken I swear I actually felt pain

And xmas was always great at her house, she wasn't rich and we didn't get loads but what she did buy she bought with love

I loved her so much, she was a great women, it was the only home I had where I felt loved "

That's lovely NN, dunno why but tonight I'm feeling quite emotional with the threads that are going on, specially this one, it's really made me remember my lovely grandparents and your story reminds me how lucky I am to have parents who cared (and still do, I have to ring Mam when I get to/from wherever I'm going) as well as bringing a tear to my eye thinking of my Gran, Grandma and Grandad (my Grandma was divorced in the 1940s, a shame she never really overcame and I never knew my maternal Grandad)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have no memories of my grandparents, as they all died before I was born. Missed out there.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"Watching Dallas with my grandad on a Saturday night while my mum and dad were out. Silly I know "

We always had all day and night at Grandma's on Saturday so I remember watching Dallas too - who shot JR? Been enjoying the new series too - RIP Larry Hagman

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My father's parents both passed away when I was a small child and I have no memories of them as living people at all. My mother's mother passed away a few years later and my memories of her are like snapshot single images in my mind, no motion, no sound. My mother's father lived until I was in my early 20s though and I have very fond memories of him, in particular him teaching me how to make the perfect cup of tea where you warm the cup first (if not using a teapot) and then make the tea in a hot cup, and he told me of his and nan's life in the kibbutz in Israel back in the 50s where they both worked for a time (no, I'm not Jewish and neither were they - they just decided to go there for a while).

My only regret in having my youngest two children this late in life is that they won't know their grandparents as much as I would have liked them too (my parents are in their late 60s and Siren's are well into their 70s)

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By *renchbambi xWoman
over a year ago

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"Watching Dallas with my grandad on a Saturday night while my mum and dad were out. Silly I know

We always had all day and night at Grandma's on Saturday so I remember watching Dallas too - who shot JR? Been enjoying the new series too - RIP Larry Hagman"

I had such a crush on him!! Love the new series too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watching Dallas with my grandad on a Saturday night while my mum and dad were out. Silly I know

We always had all day and night at Grandma's on Saturday so I remember watching Dallas too - who shot JR? Been enjoying the new series too - RIP Larry Hagman"

Am hooked on new series

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The fond memories I am reading about others here so brings a smile to my face and at times make me emotional... I guess these memories will help everyone be better grandparents when the time comes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My maternal grandparents were amazing, I loved them dearly and miss them. Their love was unconditional.

I remember when my Gran was dying and was very close to the end, it was the summer the tour de france was starting in London and my Gran knew how excited I was to be going tosee it. I told her I wasn't going as I wanted to be with her and she told me I had too and it wasn't open to discussion! I visited her on the Monday as soon as I got home and she'd got confused with the days and refused to speak to me until I proved (with a newspaper, having accused a nurse of colluding with me) that it was Monday and I hadn't comeback early. She died the next night. I stayed with her and was the only person with her (the rest of my family felt her dying alone would be better than them being with her), I sat and talked to her all night until she breathed her last. As upsetting as it was I feel incredibly priveleged to have been there and is actually one of my fondest memories.

My grandad was also cool, I owe him my love of cycling and my left wing views. Before the war my grandad relocated from Huddersfield to Birmingham and initially my Gran stayed in Yorkshire. My Grandad used to ride home every Friday night - around 100 miles and back on a Sunday night. I guess that shows how much he loved her!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The fond memories I am reading about others here so brings a smile to my face and at times make me emotional... I guess these memories will help everyone be better grandparents when the time comes."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" Before the war my grandad relocated from Huddersfield to Birmingham and initially my Gran stayed in Yorkshire. My Grandad used to ride home every Friday night - around 100 miles and back on a Sunday night. I guess that shows how much he loved her! "

Now that is true love

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

My grandma was type grandma to look at, chubby and always had an apron on. My sister and i took it in turns to go and stay in the holidays,they lived on a farm, my grandad worked the land.

My grandma, had a washing day and a baking day, she would sit out in the back yard and prepare all the veg my grandad grew for the freezer. She taught me to bake, knit and sew and crochet(forgotten how) she made all piclkes and james and chutneys, she used to take us across the fields.

My grandad used to take me across the farm with him, i first milked a cow when i was four (hand milked) it was just before the machines came in. I could tell you where all the mushrooms where in each field, which fields which wild flowers where in. Also as a special treat he would take me across the fields to watch the hunt. Also we used to go up to the chip van at the other end of the village. I only have fabulous memories of my grandparents not one bad one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My nanny is 100 in August. It's going to be a great party. All her grandchildren and great grandchildren will be there. I'm really excited about it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My nanny is 100 in August. It's going to be a great party. All her grandchildren and great grandchildren will be there. I'm really excited about it. "

Sounds like a great way to celebrate a century

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

Never knew any of my grandparents.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never knew my dad's father, as he died before me and my siblings were born.

My siblings and I were the youngest grandchildren to be born on my father's side, and he had 9 brothers and 3 sisters, and I have many cousins as a result.

My grandmother was terrible with favouritism. She never liked me as I was too direct, and would not suck up to her, just like my mum!

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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

"Never knew my dad's father, as he died before me and my siblings were born.

My siblings and I were the youngest grandchildren to be born on my father's side, and he had 9 brothers and 3 sisters, and I have many cousins as a result.

My grandmother was terrible with favouritism. She never liked me as I was too direct, and would not suck up to her, just like my mum!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My grandad Phil used to smoke a pipe and was addicted to frys peppermint choc bars so I always remember him smellin of peppermint and pipe tobacco whilst playin a game of chess with the bloke next door he died when I was quite young so that's all I really do remember bout him all my other grandparents are still alive and kicking tho so still making memories with them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a phone call at work 5 yrs ago from the hospital telling me that my gran hadn't got long at if I wanted to say my goodbyes then now was the time. So I dropped everything and dashed to hospital. She was in and out of consciousness but knew I was there. All of a sudden she said " what you doing here , no work today? Hope you are not losing money because of me. It made me smile , I sat with her all day and she died that evening

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