grandparents....
welshkev
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..........are awsome, appreciate them while you can.
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mine are all dead, thanks for reminding me.0
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sorry to hear that dude, but i bet you had some good times with them.
i'm 3 down with 1 to go at the moment
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i'm 1 down. 3 to go (but i actually have 4 sort of- my grandad remarried)
and your original post is too true0 -
i never saw my grandfather, he died when my dad was 6 after he was electricuted while fixing his plane(yes he was a pilot). then my other grandfather died when i was about 6 or 7 maybe 5. he smoked loads and generally didn't see him much. then one of my grandmothers has mental problems and so even my dad hardly ever speaks to her. but my other grandmother is awesome
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my grandad died a few days ago 0
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sorry to hear thatouchthathurts wrote:my grandad died a few days ago0 -
All of mine and one extra (step grandad) are clinging on, One Gran is senile, the other has dementia but they're all sssooooooo much fun as non of them give a flying fcuk.
A couple of years ago my Gran gave me a cheese basket for Christmas, not too bad except she left it under her tree for 3 weeks and gave it too my wife on christams day as I was in Iraq until March. My wife opened it after a day because it smelt so bad and it turned out to be just a basket of mould by then.
My step grandad used to be a professional musician and at my brothers 18th he took the base guitar off the band that was hired, saying 'he's siht' then proceeded to play for the rest of the night with the band. His fingers were bleeding by the end of the night because he hadn't played guitar for so long and his fingers had softened.+ 1001 posts reset by the cruel cruel moderators!
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Unfortunately both my grandfathers died before I came along and I was too young to appreciate my grandmothers before they also passed away. There is a lot of questions I would have liked to ask them all.Fig rolls: proof that god loves cyclists and that she wants us to do another lap0
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El Capitano wrote:I'm a grandparent, I'm asesome, appreciate me!
i would if i knew what asesome meant 0 -
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my nan is great, she's my real hero, and my grandad, god rest his soul was so eccentric
I owe them so much0 -
I think it's a mix of Ace and Awesome.welshkev wrote:El Capitano wrote:I'm a grandparent, I'm asesome, appreciate me!
i would if i knew what asesome meant
GO El CAP! 0 -
Lost one nan before I was born, then the grandad that went with her when I was around 8. The kind of substitute nan for her died just over 2 months ago
The other 2 buggered off to spain about 2 years ago, although didn't really bother me coz I barely saw them anyway0 -
I only have my grandad left, but he gave me his old road bike!!!
Great guy.My Bikes And Me
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n.battison wrote:I only have my grandad left, but he gave me his old road bike!!!
Great guy.
And he wears quality shorts and has great banter.
All in all a great man from my experience.0 -
Just me grandma left miss them all.
My grandad was near on indestructable. Looked like Ronnie Kray, had a false leg after having the other chopped off in a mining accident when just 15, smoked 60 nuclear missiles, sorry, Park Drives per day and used chip fat to do his hair.0 -
Only my grandmother left, Just found out my mother's been called to the care home she's in, taken another turn for the worst apparently. Looks like there's sadly not much time left for her.0
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My Gran's a little battleaxe! She's 93 next month, is in a home with senial dementia, has had several heart attacks and strokes, but every time she walks out of hospital the next day!
I love her to bits though, she's my only grandparent I've really ever known, and, we've just borrowed the money from her bank account to buy my car (I'm paying her back of course) so yes, Grandparents are fantastic!
My other Gran died when I was 5/6, and my Grandad (Mum's dad) died about 3 months before my parents wedding, the other grandad died when my Dad was about 12, so never met him (have seen pictures of him recently though, which was nice)It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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My grandparents are pretty rubbish tbh. On my mum's side, Grandad died 18 months ago, not a total surpise at the time, but a few months before we wouldn't have expected the deterioration to that point. Grandma on that side is now in a home, she'd proabably have died if my grandad hadn't been ill and gone into hospital (and then died) because he didn't give a $hit about how frail she was through not eating etc.
He'd leave her at home when he went to the pub. So he'd eat there, get home and be full, so she wouldn't be eating. But she's better now she's in the home, even if she's not too sure what's going on (convinced she's in a hotel and the staff keep stealing her cigs!) but you can still have a conversation with her. Even if it is about 'the family cat' that never existed.
Most I ever got off them was a fiver in a birthday card, despite them having plenty of money, decent pensions etc. My mum used to buy Xmas presents and cards and sign them from her parents. They never took us for days out/looked after us when we needed childminding or anything like that. I wasn't really that sad when my grandad died because honestly I didn't really know him. He was just an old man I saw a couple of times a year, despite the fact that he lived a 5 minute drive away. I've got an elderly neighbour who's more like a grandparent than they were.
Thankfully my mum isn't like her parents!
On the other side, my dad's parents were much less well off. So couldn't really afford to be taking us out, but at least when we went to see them years ago they'd have bought a couple of packets of sweets for me, my brother and sister, or give us some pocket money to go get them ourselves. Unfortunately my nan on that side is now completely out of it because of dementia. You can't even talk to her. But my grandad is still plodding along.
Not that I want to prove welshkev wrong or anything
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Well one of my grandads died a few days ago, not totally unexpected, long term smoker, and he went quite nicely, managed to stay out of hospital until the very end, went in one evening and had a heart attack the day later. My now widowed grandmother who is a complete hyperchondriac has managed to break her though so I seem to be over there constantly helping out and driving her to the doctors. I'm now really good at ingnoring her talking about illnesses, she must have had every disease known to man, and then some :roll: Other than that they were/are awesome
The other grandad had a stroke back in november, and has since either been in hospital or in a home, he occasionally goes home at the weekend when my aunt looks after him, quite nice visiting him though, half the time he's fine, the rest of the time he's convinced its the '60's :?0 -
Just got news that my gran's passed away. Poor thing. It's for the best really, she was suffering quite a bit recently.0
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yeehaamcgee wrote:Just got news that my gran's passed away. Poor thing. It's for the best really, she was suffering quite a bit recently.
sorry to hear that dude, what prompted the thread was my nan getting taken into hospital and me going to see her and it looking bad not a nice thing.
but they've still been awsome 0
