Grandma was helping our grandson feed his lone goldfish. Grandson asked her to look at his fish’s eye. It was swollen and white. Grandma asked how old the fish was and he replied that the fish was about four or five. Grandma, in a hushed voice, said “He is very old”. He looked at her [...]
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In a recent chat with my nine-year old grandson, the subject of his great grandma (my mother) came up. I mentioned that she loved telling me funny (sometimes rude) poems and stories when I was his age. He asked me to tell him one, and after clearing the subject matter with his dad, I told [...]
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For our Family, Friends and other Grandparents in America and Canada. I recently received the below email message from Melanie, a visitor to our site from the USA. The musical production she is working on, “The Little House on the Prairie”, was my daughters’ favourite book series when they were growing up in the States. [...]
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We have just returned from two weeks holiday in Funchal with our friends. We have loaded a few of our pictures, showing various views around Madeira, to our gallery . Hopefully you will see why we keep going back to our beautiful home away from home!
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So far we have used our web site as a means of communicating “stuff” between our wide spread network of family and friends. Through our site, we have made new friends and our little circle has grown wider. From time to time we get heartfelt pleas and requests for advice from other grandparents who share [...]
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