How many Grandads do we have?

HI there. Welcome back.

Pompa!! Good to see you back

HELLO EVERYONE . Sorry for the absence, life has bee rather hectic for several months now. Let me have a poke around the threads to fins out where you are posting news etc. and I will update happenings in the Pompa Houseold.

i did have two but i seem to have run out now

Welcome Doc we are waiting for some extreme pontifications now!!??

Thanks for the warm welcome No Butternut, I'm not related to Jack...

Hello Doc great to see you

Gally I have been worrying about pompa he has not been around for ages, hope he is ok.

Welcome doc.
Has anyone heard of Pompa recently??

Welcome DOC. I am the person who tipped George Clooney back over your broken fence when I had finished with him a couple of weeks ago. I can only apologise!

(Jack will explain)

Welcome doc hoping you enjoy the posts and get involved with the conversations.

Welcome doc - not related to jack by any chance are you? If you are you'll see she has been singing your praises!

Newbie Grandad Dave reporting in Just joined today and looking forward to sharing ideas and experiences etc.

I'm watching!

Nice challenge, Nanachrissy! DOC has just read latest messages and says he'll join "soon". Watch this space!

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DOC We love extreme views,and we're used to them too. Many a spat on here, but always reasonably polite

Oh you lucky thing Greatnan having so many grandchildren, I have one. And you live in France too, how wonderful. I would dearly like to move to Tuscany but my grandson stays with me 5 days a week and as he's only 8 has some time to finish in school yet.
I help out at his school and we're off to a Hindu temple tomorrow for the day, lunch included, luckily veg. curry as I'm a life-long vegetarian!

Great response. Thank you. DOC is currently doing his piano practise. He is having lessons with a young Russian musician (my birthday present to him this time last year). I interrupted him to tell him that he'd be welcome on Gransnet. He said (quote): "That's very nice. But they might not like my extreme views."

He went on to say he hopes there'll be a GN convention in Leicester this year so he can meet all the lovely ladies. Why Leicester? We live at least 100 miles away! Do, please, keep encouraging him. Must go. First-born has just arrived with birthday present for Aged Parent.

You would have to be careful what you say about your DOC, jack if he is going to read your posts! (unless you have an alter-ego for any comments he should not read)!

Well, I got that wrong, didn't I? Off out now, behave yourselves, Grans and grandads!

DOC come on in! We are -stroppy- gentle, -assertive- not a bit forceful, women with ideas about everything!

Come on in, the waters lovely just watch out for jingle!

Come on then, DOC, we need you and we're really kind to grandads.

My DOC (Dear Old Chap) is 73 today, but looks about 60. He is the loveliest man in the world (in my opinion) and makes me laugh on a daily basis. I think he'd like to join Gransnet but might feel intimidated by the force of our Girl Power. Please invite him to join us. His take on life is different from mine, and he shouts at the television news quite a lot, but he's well worth cultivating. AND he has a shed, so from April to October he has a legitimate hiding place when the going gets tough. Not that his life is in any way onerous. After all, he is blessed with a totally devoted wife!

Hello, Granddads everywhere. I wish my GC had a lovely granddad like you, but my ex-husband chose to stop seeing our daughters when he remarried and his third wife had six children and numerous grandchildren.
He has not seen the last four of our ten grandchildren. It upsets one of my daughters but the other just shrugs.
I have had a lot of good advice on computers, cars, plumbing, etc. on my expat forums (I live in France) but now I will pick your brains when I have a problem. Of course, much of the advice has come from women too!