Grans are grandma's and grandpa's

Sorry Anagram, I'm still recovering from 3 hours shoe shopping. Brain dead.

It wasn't me who asked the question, pompa! Are you stalking me?
Just because I raised the cake issue.....

Anagram - that is an unfair question, any answer I suggest, however well intended, would get me well and truly mullered. Especially by Mrs. P.

Anagram Doesn't really roll off the tongue with the appropriate degree of contempt, does it?

Female chauvinist sow?

What is the equivalent female term for male chauvinist pig? Just wondered.

Tea shops are our downfall, I guess it's because we have a higher than average number of retired people in our area, but every nursery and farm shop seems to be sprouting a new cafe lately. We now have 5 in our village - all serving fantastic cakes etc.

The very first female boat-builder in Britain worked for the boat-builders who used to live in our house. She sometimes had her knitting on the go while she was at the tiller.

One of the many great things we discovered after moving to Malvern from the southeast is lots of tea shops and they all sell home made food. I loves the scones but am trying to lose weight so it was a mistake to start reading this forum!

Quite!

So that's it -- sitting down, male task
Multi tasking - female

Simple. !

Knitting is only a special kind of weaving and loom type weaving was traditionally a male preserve, after the women had done the spinning. You can do spinning and knitting while you are walking about watching kids. You can move it from place to place so that you can multi-task. Loom weaving is more of a sit down job.

LOL, knitting is one of my areas of expertise - well sort of - Mrs. P started knitting againg after about 50 years, it was me that kept finding the You Tube vids to help her out. And the coffee and sympathy each time she had to undo it.

Have you been on The Waverley, harri or pompa? If not, I recommend it. It's the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world.

Lots of men knit.

Well, some anyway. No reason why they shouldn't.

Think Kaffe Fassett for a start.

Like Greatnan and Jeni I lke to talk about steam trains and traction engines and oh the lovely steamboats on the lakes. We can hardly talk to the Grandpas about knitting. I am happy for them to be here and to talk to them with the exception of one who pm me.

I think I must be gender-blind - I don't care what sex someone is, as long as they post coherent, well thought out/amusing posts.
On the other hand, I was a member of an expat forum where we had to set up a 'Women Only' section because some men would post really vile comments if a woman wanted to discuss some personal health issue. The Grnasnet men are not like that, I am sure, so I hope they stay and recruit their friends.

Exactly, when!

I like the 'mostly women' atmosphere, too. Before I retired, I managed a group of all female staff in a female offenders' hostel, and we had a policy of only recruiting women but allowing male staff to work occasional shifts there. That seemed to work ok as long as the balance stayed predominantly women, not because we were anti-men but because it was meant to be a female environment dealing with women's issues. That's how I see Gransnet in the main, but the occasional chat with grandads, and hearing their views, is fine with me

Perhaps the name should be grandsnet!

pompa Mrs P is all woman!

Sigh.

I'm nowhere near the ceiling.

Just putting my point of view.

Yawn.

Bye.

You don't have to chat to men if you don't want to, jingle. There might - hypothetically, of course - be some women I'd rather not chat to. That would be my choice and my right.

Come down off the ceiling Jings You would say yourself that anyone who does not want to read what you post can ignore it or stay away, so don't bridle at someone else saying it.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

I don't want to start chatting to men.

To be perfectly honest.

Not ones I don't know.