Talk

Start new thread

Flip

Back to thread

Original poster

What lovely things do you remember about grandparents?

2 replies

ipercy · 14/05/2023 15:04

My little one goes to my parents house two days a week when I'm at work and for an afternoon snack, my mum always makes him a boiled egg as part of a little picky tray.

He has started calling boiled eggs "grandma eggs" and I think it's really sweet!!

It's got me thinking about things I remember from being little and I always remember sitting in my grandads shoulders and playing hairdressers

What memories do you look back on and smile?

Go to post

MNHQ

HebeMumsnet · 19/05/2023 10:24

I remember thinking my Nan and Grandad lived the most luxurious lifestyle because they had a Teasmade at the side of the bed in their bungalow. Every morning, the Teasmade made them both a cup of tea and my Nan would pass one cup over to my Grandad. And they both had their own tupperware box of biscuits under the bed (she had Custard Creams; he had Ginger Nuts) so they could have one with their tea in bed. I just thought life couldn't get much better than that. When we stayed I used to get in the middle of the bed when the Teasmade went off and get to choose which biscuit I had. My little brother always used to fiddle with the Teasmade buttons when he was a toddler when we visited so they'd get woken up at 3am with a cup of tea the following morning. My Nan used to ring my mum at about 7am and say "He's bleeding done it again!".

She used to also desperately be posting handfuls of sweets through the rear car windows for us as we left (like we'd not scoffed enough while there). She'd be tottering down the drive as we reversed out, sticking Milk Bottles and Chocolate Eclairs through the windows. My dad ran over her foot once! 😂

MNHQ

LivMumsnet · 08/06/2023 13:08

Some lovely memories here and a fair few nominations for the thread to go into Classics so we're going to move it there now.

Like lots of posters on here, many of my memories of my grandparents are food related - they had a little walk in pantry cupboard stacked with tins of every description (early Preppers?!)

I remember baked beans with my grandad's added ingredients - loads of butter and ketchup stirred into the pan and my nan's porridge made with half a tin of golden syrup dolloped in it...it's a wonder I still have all my own teeth.

Here's to all the grandparents.

Watch this thread for updates

Tap "Watch" to get all the latest updates

End of posts

There are no more MNHQ posts on this thread

Back to thread

Flip