How are you turning into your granny?

[PMcGintysGoat]

When she was alive I mocked (quietly to myself) my granny for some of her ways. Now, in the space of two days I've caught myself (1) tearing the flap off the cornflake packet to write a list on when there's a perfectly good notepad for this purpose and (2) folding up a butter paper and returning it to the fridge (I'll line a cake tin with it, probably sometime in 2022 when next I make a cake).

Does this happen to all of us, or is it just me?!

I’m currently knitting!

I’m riddled with arthritis.

Oh standrewsschool I wish I could knit, she tried to teach me but I wasn't a receptive student!

Imissmoominmama sorry to hear that

DGM was really offended when my young DS asked why she had piles of stuff on the middle sofa cushion on the 3 seater sofa (she sat on one end & was a widow) it was so she could easily reach things she used often instead of getting up and down all the time.
The pile on my little table next to where I sit on the sofa is growing

I make the same noise she used to make when I have to bend over and pick something up!

I fall asleep sat up on the sofa. Mums having a nanna nap.

I look for sensible shoes and complain EVERY TIME to everyone I speak to how I hate my recent hair-do. I also take my bike to the shops.

Oh god so many ways..

Rifling to the back of the fridge in a shop to find the longest use by date
Muttering to myself about manners and standards
Thinking I really should save the meat juices and cooking fat
Saying “Aren’t you cold without a coat?”
Feeding people

I spent a happy hour today hand sewing underwear for a rag doll.

I looked in the mirror this morning and thought 'Nana, is that you?'

Oh god mrsgrindah yes the idea of waste makes me feel really unsettled. I used to think it was because granny had been through the war, rationing etc but now I suspect a genetic trait

"I've no problem with being mutton." She'd say frequently. I'm so with her on that, no issue with being seen as my age.