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To clap my hands and skip about in a elephantine manner?

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 15/06/2017 23:11

I'm going to be a grandfather! Woo hoo! They haven't tuppence to rub together, so there'll be 3 generations under one roof. Still, DD is doing well after the throwing stopped, he's working all the hours God sends, and with luck I shall see New Person into their teens, as opposed to my DF who got less than 7 years of DGF hood. Wish us luck.

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BoreOfWhabylon · 28/08/2020 13:30

Yay! Happy birthday to the Little Prince!

And thanks to the soppy old git Grin

marriednotdead · 28/08/2020 12:43

Another one for the fan club, I am always quietly chuffed to read your updates and the exploits of MiniDisgrace. Being soppy is for other people, we grandparents are only justifiably proud Wink

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 28/08/2020 12:35

Now we are 3.
Breakfast was smarties and ice cream, so we were greeted with much scampering and giggling. At one point he climbed onto DW's head, at another he got into his play tent and used it as a hamster wheel. Then we played "throw Lego round the room and get the grown ups to pick it up". Twice. Everything was dinosaurs, before you ask.
I shall probably leave it that, unless he gets into the Falcons or proves Goldbach's Conjecture. Thanks to all his supporters, and for not calling me a soppy old git to my face.

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DeRigueurMortis · 09/08/2020 19:13

What took me me long to find this thread!!!!

It's so heartwarming and humorous.

I know the area well as I have family in Northumberland. It's such a beautiful part of the country.

I think Bamburgh and Alnmouth are two of my favourite places in the U.K. and my own DS spent lots of time there when he was little.

Such a wonderful part of the country for a child to grow up in or indeed a 60 something to grow old disgracefully in Wink.

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 09/08/2020 18:19

I've considered writing an humorous parenting book for a while. Originally it was to be called "Fat, Forty, Fatherhood". As time has passed, it's morphed to "Sluglike, Sixty, Second Adolescence". But I don't want to strip mine anyone's childhood, seeing what happened to CR Milne.

Anyway, we went to Cresswell yesterday, and poked hermit crabs. I'm not allowed in the water though: "Sea too cold parp, you get cough". Bless him.

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BoreOfWhabylon · 08/08/2020 09:10

[quote JustHavinABreak]@DisgraceToTheYChromosome I've just read this is filled with laughter and tears. What a wonderful grandfather and writer you are. You should consider approaching an agent with this. Your grandson is a very lucky little boy.[/quote]
I agree. You really should think about publishing this. Perhaps @MNHQ could be involved in some way?

I've often thought that some threads here would make excellent Radio plays and this is definitely one of them.

I'm sure the Little Prince will have a wonderful birthday running in circles with his mates Grin

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 08/08/2020 00:53

Hi ERW22. We're inland and a bit up from you. Good for trainspotting.

Hi Bore! Just under 3 weeks away. It'll be quiet, just a couple of friends from nursery in the park. They can run in circles to their heart's content.

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ERW22 · 02/08/2020 21:16

Name changed but this is still my favourite thread! And I recognise lots of places in the photos (I think) I’m from the village with the 2 people in the bay where the dolphins often come to visit so I know the area well.

JustHavinABreak · 02/08/2020 13:18

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome I've just read this is filled with laughter and tears. What a wonderful grandfather and writer you are. You should consider approaching an agent with this. Your grandson is a very lucky little boy.

BoreOfWhabylon · 21/07/2020 20:58

I bethought me of this thread, so decided to revisit.

Balm for the soul it is, @DisgraceToTheYChromosome.

And he'll be coming up for three soon!

Who knows where the time goes?

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 30/06/2020 00:04

Like Boris the horse, he wants to bite the horizon. Good at distancing: "People! Stand still nanna!" And then a gull goes by and he's off like a greyhound.

To clap my hands and skip about in a elephantine manner?
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crabbyoldbat · 30/05/2020 08:42

Smashing!

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 28/05/2020 19:02

2¾ yesterday. Since everyone's been over the virus for 5 weeks, we went to the beach.
"Have you got enough seacoal on you yet?"
"No, I splashing. You stay there parpar". I was black from the knees down. He had it in his hair.

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 26/03/2020 22:10

He has a new thing, full body nodding. Saying "yes" means bashing your face on a cushion and shouting "BOING!". Saying "no" means bending forward supporting yourself on your elbows, and then making little jumps with your behind pointing at the person who's just asked you to put your toys away.

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wineandroses1 · 17/03/2020 23:54

Op please continue. This is a lovely thread and you are best grandad ever (well, other than mine. And my dad. Fabulous grandads).

neverornow · 15/03/2020 21:20

This thread is just what I needed today! Beautiful Smile

JuniperSnowberry · 14/03/2020 22:23

Another one chiming in to say that I love these updates. It is so lovely that you are still over-joyed at this little fella.

singtanana · 14/03/2020 06:24

Brilliant, love the updates!

Threelionsandalioness · 05/03/2020 07:20

Oh such a lovely update thank you x

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 01/03/2020 09:26

2½ on Thursday, but I've been very busy.
Right now he's lying on the floor staging railway disasters. I have survived his undivided attention for 24 hours (everyone else is working). The house is a tip. Life is perfect.

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Ellmau · 29/02/2020 21:13

What a lovely thread and how adorable MiniDisgrace is.

Threelionsandalioness · 20/02/2020 09:13

Me too x

Jux · 30/01/2020 17:31

How lovely your family is. I realise that with privacy and dignity your updates must be limited, but I am still hoping that there will be more.....

💕💕💕

Skap · 29/12/2019 16:55

I love your thread Disgrace. I read some a long time ago and have just caught up with the last 18 months. We don't stop and appreciate the moments enough with our children. When the tantrums kick in as a parent we are too tired to find them entertaining.

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 28/12/2019 10:55

2â…“. I'm enormously tempted to post his nursery portrait, but privacy etc. Suffice it to say that his good looks are now in the megaton range, and his quirks are increasing. He sat up in bed the other day, shouting "OH NO! OH NO!". We were just about to run upstairs when he said "oh, they MY feet. Hello feet" and went back to sleep. Also another visit to A&E, where he re-enacted The Death of Chatterton in triage, groaning theatrically. Then he spoilt it by giggling. Bit worried about his pain threshold, which is rather higher than I think safe. He cries when his model trains derail, and when he cracked his arm earlier in the year, but he's always got more bruises than we can explain every bath time.

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