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What a good idea, @Antje77 . I never thought about looking for a grandson. I have met some nice ones here, walking their grandparents' dogs, coming home with the shopping and drycleaning, but the best ones IMO are the ones who have cars and can take you places.

Hmm ... maybe I will put an ad on the bulletin board. It's too bad you and I don't live closer to each other, we could share one! Do your two drive, @satindoll? :D
 
I have one who lives in Ireland and a grandson in law who is in America .
Carol
 
SaskiaKC said:
What a good idea, @Antje77 . I never thought about looking for a grandson. I have met some nice ones here, walking their grandparents' dogs, coming home with the shopping and drycleaning, but the best ones IMO are the ones who have cars and can take you places.

Hmm ... maybe I will put an ad on the bulletin board. It's too bad you and I don't live closer to each other, we could share one! Do your two drive, @satindoll? :D
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One does but he lives hundreds of miles away.........not exactly handy for shopping.........:rolleyes:
 
carty said:
I have one who lives in Ireland and a grandson in law who is in America .
Carol
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I wish the Irish one could take me on a driving and horseback tour of Ireland (wouldn't want to tour all Dublin on horseback!) and the American one could take me on a road trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific. And back again. :D
 
Antje77 said:
I need a grandson too, @JohnEGreen ! Do you know where I can buy one?
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Well in the UK we have various adopt a granny schemes maybe there's something like it in your neck of the woods you might have to wait a few years to qualify though but grandparents are getting younger all the time.:)
 
JohnEGreen said:
Well in the UK we have various adopt a granny schemes maybe there's something like it in your neck of the woods you might have to wait a few years to qualify though but grandparents are getting younger all the time.:)
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I'm 41 and I want one like yours. All finished, so to say, without the diapers and teenage nonsense part. Do you think I qualify?
 
Antje77 I think you should qualify but I'm biased in your favor finding the exact model you are looking for may perhaps be difficult.

I was 45 when Keiran came along but then had to go through all that diaper and teenage nonsense.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Antje77 I think you should qualify but I'm biased in your favor finding the exact model you are looking for may perhaps be difficult.

I was 45 when Keiran came along but then had to go through all that diaper and teenage nonsense.
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Main problem is, if I want to try to make my own, I have to start by making a regular child, go through all the nonsense, no guarantee this will result in a grandchild, let alone the model I prefer, and anyway, by the time this whole process is finished I'll be well in my eighties with the most optimistic scenario.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Well in the UK we have various adopt a granny schemes maybe there's something like it in your neck of the woods you might have to wait a few years to qualify though but grandparents are getting younger all the time.:)
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Here we have a company called GoGoGrandparent that books Uber rides for grandparent-aged people who don't have smartphones and don't know how to use apps. It's also a sort of "minder" in that the client's kids/SO can track their rides to know they've gotten safely to their destination.

Thankfully my dumbphone is capable of booking rides for me directly.

I like the "adopt-a-granny" idea. :)
 
Morning all

Warmer here this morning

SaskiaKC said:
Was the C&T because you found the perfect everything to go together and now you have to look forward to putting it all up? Or because you didn't and now you have to go start again?

If because you've found everything, we need pics, please!
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Sorry, I've tried 3 times and the photos won't upload.

Have a good day.

H
 
I definitely deserve a winner icon today! After 4 days of diabetes acting ridiculous I kind of dreaded my swimming date today, as swimming is complicated, diabetes-wise. Nailed the during and after swimming things without highs or hypo's.

Then I couldn't resist buying beautful small blood oranges at our local Lidl
(internal conversation:
"Don't buy oranges, they make you spike."
"But I'll inject for them."
"You know that won't work, as the sugars are faster than your insulin, and your insulin works longer than those sugars so they'll not only make you spike but they'll make you hypo too."
"No they won't."
"Yes they will."
"But they're real small, so it won't be so bad."
"Are you sure?"
"No."
"What if I only eat them when hypo?"
"You won't have time to go downstairs and peel your blood orange when you're hypo."
"What if I only eat them when I have one of those very slow, almost flatlining hypo's and I catch it around 4?"
"Yes, then you could. But what are the chances of that happening when at home before your oranges go all old and dry and shrunken and mouldy?"
"You never know, I might be lucky! And if I don't buy them I won't get the chance to eat them for certain. And I'll give half the bag to my friend too!"
"(tired sigh) Go ahead and be stupid.")

So guess what just happened. An almost flatlined hypo (I use the Libre sensors), caught at 3.9 with a fingerprick and I thought to take my chance and peel the orange instead of gobbling licorice. It was heavenly and I'm up to 4.6 by now thanks to my wonderful, juicy, sweet, tart blood orange! I expect to rise a bit more, but not too much :)
 
I want to know why I have so many bags-for-life. At this rate I'll live to be 122!
 
Guzzler said:
I want to know why I have so many bags-for-life. At this rate I'll live to be 122!
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I don't know why you do either. We have a collection of ordinary common or garden carrier bags, mostly with holes in them. They replace these with new ones if we ask. We have never bought a bag for life - they are just supermarket money makers.

Our normal supermarket (Booths) has removed the plastic bags from the veg and fruit counters and replaced them with brown papaer ones
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I don't know why you do either. We have a collection of ordinary common or garden carrier bags, mostly with holes in them. They replace these with new ones if we ask. We have never bought a bag for life - they are just supermarket money makers.

Our normal supermarket (Booths) has removed the plastic bags from the veg and fruit counters and replaced them with brown papaer ones
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I remember my ol' Mum's string bag for loose veg and she had a gondola basket for dirty spuds. The greengrocers had those huge sections made of wood for the different types of potatoes, I can smell the old fashioned places even now. How things have changed, everything in plastic wrapping that as half life of 200 years.
 
Guzzler said:
I remember my ol' Mum's string bag for loose veg and she had a gondola basket for dirty spuds. The greengrocers had those huge sections made of wood for the different types of potatoes, I can smell the old fashioned places even now. How things have changed, everything in plastic wrapping that as half life of 200 years.
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Oh that is bringing back memories. String bags. I had one when I was first married. We still have an old fashioned greengrocers, with his produce in wooden crates outside the shop, and because we have a 3 day market we have a few other greengrocers to chose from.

According to my old mum, I became a criminal when I was a toddler. She parked me outside the greengrocer's in my pram while she went inside. This was never regarded as dangerous in those days. When she got me home she found a cauliflower inside the pram that I had obviously helped myself to.
 
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