Anyone fancy joining me in living life according to Granny Murray's advice?

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As of yesterday, I decided that I would endeavour to live my life according to Granny Murray's words of wisdom (childminder in CBeebies' Me Too! if you've never heard of her).

Every episode she comes out with some pleasantly obvious and trivial aphorism which the characters remember in the nick of time, and which solves all their problems.

In the absence of any other guiding philosophy/religion in my life, I have decided to live by her advice each day, and when in doubt, ask myself "what would Granny Murray do?"

Yesterday, she advised me to make the most of the sunshine. Today, it's more haste, less speed. I am surely on a fast track to canonisation if I continue to follow this path.

Anyone else fancy joining me? Or do you have another TV mentor?

There are some things you just have to do!

Sorry, should be in quotes. That's today's advice. Her most sensible yet, I think ...

This is another sackable offence imo.

Two questions arose from this morning's episode:
a) She left her cleaning products on the bus when she got off at Granny Murray's, so how did she finish her work? With some spit on the corner of a tissue?
b) Why is Kai's teddy named after the homicidal maniac in Trainspotting?

That is all.

She's right you know. I am sitting here putting off doing Shred. But I just have to get on and do it. Thanks Granny Murray, you're very wise, though I still wouldn't trust you with my actual children.

What, like Claude?

Love this thread! DD and I deflected to channel 5 a while ago but I'm going to have to go back to Granny Murray next week!

It reminds me of last summer when I was up at 5 every day with DD and felt like I was going mad - the surreal world of Riversea Fingle did not help!!

Mrs Trellis, I'm starting to think you have a thing for Claude, or are you in fact...Granny Murray.

Oh no, I won't be able to enjoy the purple and green/flowery combo this morning as my recorder hasn't added it to the hard drive .

This morning's advice is great actually because I have just dispatched dh and my mother to ikea to buy new dining room furniture while I sit here and drink coffee do important child rearing stuff.

Mrstrellis . I'm now faced with that terrible mental image, thanks!

"Just do one step and a time and you'll get where you want to go."

Now that is good advice!

No arguing with that!
I do feel her advice has been a bit samey and not so inspiring of late. But, as a good disciple, I will plod on and wait for enlightenment...

I think it has to be samey because there are so many excellently scatterbrained people living in Riverseafingle. They always end up rushing about finishing jobs before they finish songs so Granny M has to remind them to focus quite a lot.

Wow this thread reminds me of those mad mornings waking at dawn after a night of little sleep and putting me too on was like dropping some savage acid....
I kind of miss it though.....

lol @me too being like dropping some savage acid! I've never dropped acid, savage or otherwise, but do imagine that if I did I would be transported immediately to Riverseafingle.

i just remember it was so...jumbled and made no sense. The Bella emberg lookalike and her taxi and the train cheesy toaster man , the woman cleaning a bus at night looking so happy and the children all look shocked. It's all a blur...
It's just so ODD

scrummy mummy I'm taking this as meaning Granny Murray only wants me to Hoover one step at a time... bloody hell these three flights of stairs are going to take ages if I shut the Hoover off and put it away between each one..."just take one step at a time and you'll get where you want to go"... But it does mean I'll end up back in bed, so cheers!

There's 12 steps to where Granny M is going.

MrsT!

You should take your own advice! Cryptic!

She's not much of a doctor, is she? It's not exactly a 'job' to have something to eat! Anyway, my advice today is to stay indoors in this hot weather and I am going to follow it

I'm on the couch and I refuse to take any steps at all.

So what was advice today? Am staying with PILs so normal levels of CBeebies are in abeyance. Will I survive without GM's daily dose?

What's going on, does it have something to do with Claude?

I was mid-kitchen crisis when she dished out her advice today so can't help . Anyone else? Or are we going to have to imagine it again?

I was washing- up and missed it. DD is unable to fill me in (she's 21 months!)