Black and White

So I paid a much overdue visit to The Granny last night with my sister. Well my sister was there long before me and I, having been to an event in town, was hmmming and hawing about going until my sister sent me a text saying
“she really wants to see you and she’s got photos [...]

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Wedding bells

You’d have to wonder what prompted it so late in life, but The Granny sought out her marriage cert and related documents recently in the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages or wherever such ancient documents are kept nowadays.

It’s almost 60 years since she got married but a lot less years have passed since her [...]

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Presidential poop

So. Our usual weekly trip the visit The Granny this week left me with at least three blog posts. If she knew I blogged about her on the internet she’d be none too pleased but secretly a little delighted I reckon.
Anyway, my favourite story of the evening went a little something like this.
The Granny: “I [...]

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Cash flow

So, last night myself and my sister went to pay a visit to The Granny. We hadn’t phoned beforehand so there was a bit of a lull between our two rings of the doorbell and actually being verified, identified and allowed in the front door. Luckily it wasn’t raining!
The Granny had had a bit of [...]

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Tuesday night with The Granny

was pretty uneventful as nights with The Granny go. Apart from a short discussion about my sister’s boyfriend and the match last weekend. My sister’s boyfriend is English and was over here for the match to watch it with her and her friends – no tickets.
The Granny: “Was he playing?”
Cue guffaws of laughter from myself [...]

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Happy Christmas to The Granny

Happy Christmas indeed. What does one buy for the woman who has everything she wants or needs? She has every kitchen gadget known to man, every useful one anyway, the rest having been declared as ‘pure rubbish’ or a ‘dead loss’. She wants for nothing in the clothes department – I couldn’t afford her style [...]

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New government watchdog

The Granny spotted this in last week’s Irish Daily Mail. She’s a stickler for spelling and grammar etc., possibly due to having worked in advertising for many years and she had actually kept the newspaper just to show off the awful mistakes. She’s of the attitude that there is no need or reason for it [...]

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Scary times

A comment posted by Holemaster earlier about a little old lady in his neighbourhood who still drives around on an old Triumph, prompted me to post this story about The Granny. It’s an an incident which occurred in May of last year, which was emblazoned on my mind for quite a while and which my [...]

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The Granny

No Grannymar, it’s not about you, you’ll be glad to know
It’s funny how easily we can forget that the older generation may not necessarily know more than we do about life – certain parts of life anyway, for sure.
Last night I paid a visit with my sister to my grandmother, heretofore referred [...]

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