Nostalgia from grandparents house

[IceDiscoSkater]

I have just been thinking about all the lovely memories from being a child and staying overnight or visiting my grandparents or great grandparents houses.

Mid to late 80’s

An overnight stay would always involve being allowed to stay up much later than at home to watch entertainment shows like blankety blank or a rented VHS tape.
We got a pound each to spend at the ice cream van ( the Icey we called it ). A pound was LOADS back then , we used to get ice cream and mix ups. My parents would never have allowed this , it was SUCH a treat.

During the day at one set of grandparents we were taken up the town centre to the shopping mall and would love to go into Boots the chemist to look at all the toiletries.
Sometimes got taken to grandparents bowling club for a cheese and ham toastie , and were allowed to press the buttons on the puggy ( slot ) machines.

If I stayed at my great Grans, I was sent to the local shop with a little hand written shopping list on my own ! To go and buy and collect the small amount of shopping - this made me feel so grown up. Looking back obviously this was so dangerous for a lone child at a young age , but I loved it and was always given extra to buy a Twinkle comic.

We picked raw rhubarb from the garden and GP let us stick it in sugar and eat it raw.

I remember their avocado bath suite and they used to buy us Matey bubble bath and it was such a treat to get to use the fun bottles.

Just lots of lovely memories...

All just little simple things we remember but seems these days the little things are things that will stick with us the most

Getting nostalgic on New Years Eve

JH Lynch was the Tina painting, although I remember a red dress and less cleavage! They certainly had loads of little Spanish dolls from their holidays around the place.

These are all so lovely.
It’s amazing the details everyone can remember.

Another thing I loved about my grandparents was their bookcase. It was in the hall and had glass sliding doors and had the full collection of the Books of Knowledge ( I think that was the name ). Burgundy encyclopedias arranged A- Z , with coloured pictures of far away places. I loved reading them.
My nana told me they bought them and paid them up weekly ?

Also had a medical book which looked like a bible with A-Z of symptoms.

They were never precious about anything and we were allowed to touch and use mostly everything in the house if we were careful.

@TodgerStrunk

JH Lynch was the Tina painting, although I remember a red dress and less cleavage! They certainly had loads of little Spanish dolls from their holidays around the place.

@TodgerStrunk Yes! This was in my great grans. She didn’t have the Spanish flamenco dolls as she hadn’t been abroad but my gran had them in her sideboard.

My nana had the toilet roll doll though the crochet skirted lady covering a single roll of toilet roll sitting on the shelf behind the toilet.

I stayed at my grandparents' house most Saturdays, which in hindsight seems so boring but I loved every minute.

My granny was a mega-early riser. I can still remember the noise the kitchen light used to make from downstairs when she switched it on (picture a big, rectangular fluorescent ceiling light, only not very bright!).

She used to buy the papers for about 6 different households in her street and then deliver them; sometimes she would let me help

Granda used to make me tea and toast for bedtime supper - the tea was proper tea made in a pot on the stove, and the toast was grilled on one side only, I loved it!

I would give anything to have one more Saturday with them ❤️