I have retold this story to my great amusement on several occasions. There are two very certain responses … confused silence or belly laughter.
Straight from the horses mouth I pass you over to Gramps …
Unfettered by your mother’s good sense and guidance I was adrift in a sea of confusion and chaos and I was applying, [...]
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From Gramps …
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My recent manic search for the elusive Go Go Hamsters has brought back memories of various smelly pet rodents and a rabbit called Snowball that you had as a child.
To be precise, you ‘had’ to hold and cuddle leaving me, like most fathers, to muck out the cages. I remember at least one [...] -
We went out to the cinema sans enfant last week. We left the children with a responsible adult … Gramps.
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The children were ready for bed and we left Gramps with simple instructions; Give the 3 year old another 20 minutes or so then put him to bed unless he asks to be put to [...] -
A holiday you will remember is our caravan visit to Abersoch in north Wales. We and our friends had booked what we thought were pitches on a lovely caravan park on a picturesque Welsh farm. The reality was a meadow with a large area of the long summer grass cut short next to a grey, [...]
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This summer, when in charge of the grandchildren, I took them for a walk across the ‘rock-jumping’ area of the moor. At least that is the family name it has been given for the simple reason that there are a lot of rocks which children, at some risk, can leap from rock to rock.
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My lovely Dad, or Gramps as he is know around here, has started writing about his memories of my childhood.
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He is Scottish, looks like Victor Meldrew, is selectively deaf, often ridiculous and always amusing … here he is;
Holiday Memories (1)
The first memory is one you will probably not remember for reasons that will become clear. [...] -
About a month ago I had a moment of utter brain dead madness. Hindsight is a wondrous thing.
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I asked Gramps to get the kids Go Go Hamsters for Christmas.
Since asking him there have been several news reports of Go Go Hamsters being sold out everywhere and panicked craziness surrounding deliveries. I haven’t known such insanity since the [...]
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