tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post4570503684278701350..comments2024-03-28T02:06:49.582+00:00Comments on In this life: Two granniesPam http://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-49749115253217538332008-02-08T21:39:00.000+00:002008-02-08T21:39:00.000+00:00Better a cottage loaf than a bloomer! ( like what ...Better a cottage loaf than a bloomer! ( like what I am, I'd rather be a baguette...)<BR/>Such sad lives people so often had, yet they endured. Perhaps that was why they seemed old before their time?<BR/>Lovely post.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-2523377950500900202008-02-08T14:01:00.000+00:002008-02-08T14:01:00.000+00:00OhMyGosh Isabelle -- you're so funny! Such a love...OhMyGosh Isabelle -- you're so funny! Such a lovely wonderful story about your grandmothers, and then you wrap it all up with talk of gray hair and cottage loaves! (And btw, I'm just a little upset that I'm just now finding this post and it was written several days ago -- my bloglines is failing me!) I'm the same age my mother was when I made her a granny and 12 years older than my granny when she became a granny. Like you, there are no babies on the near horizon. A sad byproduct of this age when we all wait longer to have babies. Thanks for another great post!Thimbleannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03650582809426872051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-85318329205363956022008-02-08T11:34:00.000+00:002008-02-08T11:34:00.000+00:00Hi Isabelle. ive just popped over from Gina"s..Lov...Hi Isabelle. ive just popped over from Gina"s..<BR/>Lovely Story about your Grannies and precious china keepsakes..Both my Grannies passed away before I was born, But I have a complete Tea set that was given to my Mum about 1921...<BR/>BTW, If you want to hear A Kookaburra laugh see my Febuary 2007 Archive...Jeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16993328454036416214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-20444151189752028872008-02-07T21:12:00.000+00:002008-02-07T21:12:00.000+00:00I'm so grateful that dh's parents live near us -- ...I'm so grateful that dh's parents live near us -- and love their grandchildren enough to see them often. My mom's mom died when she was two and my dad's mom died long before I was born.wife2abadgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03886552203311389234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-57444988769959001512008-02-06T11:40:00.000+00:002008-02-06T11:40:00.000+00:00Stories like this one make me reflect on how very ...Stories like this one make me reflect on how very lucky we are to have been born into this generation. Most of us grow up with the expectaion of long. peaceful lives for ourselves and our children.Tracey Petersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434423460092424684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-2070958952835830592008-02-06T10:59:00.000+00:002008-02-06T10:59:00.000+00:00Beautiful post, Isabelle. I love having bits and ...Beautiful post, Isabelle. I love having bits and pieces around the house that have meaning, and it doesn't matter how "valuable" they are in the usual sense. I have a headless crystal swan that I inherited from my granny and which was decapitated by my son when he was only 6 months old (my own fault, I shouldn't have been holding him within swiping distance). My granny loved the swans (there was a pair) and taught me how to tell crystal from glass on them. She would have been sad if I had broken them but I suspect if she had lived to see her great-grandson, he would have been forgiven!Lothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15949068764211292370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-78872886925131886772008-02-06T10:21:00.000+00:002008-02-06T10:21:00.000+00:00Lovely stories about your grannies! It is so great...Lovely stories about your grannies! It is so great that you know the stories about those pieces of china - too often that kind of information gets lost when people are just not interested at the time, and later wish they had asked a few questions before it was too late.<BR/><BR/>One of my 'grannies' is still around, and she's almost 98!Fairlie - www.feetonforeignlands.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00145612102935177016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-65025454260209962842008-02-06T08:21:00.000+00:002008-02-06T08:21:00.000+00:00Isabelle, this is a wonderful story, that should b...Isabelle, this is a wonderful story, that should be documented for posterity - not just here in cyberspace! I'm sure you will have done so anyway. I would be absolutely furious with a cleaner that could be so careless with such old china...grrr..well it is lucky that one survived.Gina E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-57858866771997290152008-02-06T06:58:00.000+00:002008-02-06T06:58:00.000+00:00Jeeminy. Such hard times. It's easy to forget now,...Jeeminy. Such hard times. It's easy to forget now, but the past had its own special brand of hardship.<BR/><BR/>It's amusing and odd to realize that one is at the same age that one's relatives were at a certain time in childhood. Why, weren't they positively ancient, with teeth missing and bodies stooped from osteoporosis and hard work? Yet I don't feel "old" and I doubt you do either. Thank goodness for that!<BR/><BR/>Your keepsakes are lovely. I'm sure your grandmothers would be pleased that you have them.Tanya Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15919250829858831002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-74271807800484872492008-02-06T06:41:00.000+00:002008-02-06T06:41:00.000+00:00Lovely glimpses of your Grannies. My parents are b...Lovely glimpses of your Grannies. My parents are both 10 years older than my granny was when she became a grandmother, and 2 years older than she was when I was born. I remember "Granny in California" visiting every summer, and being an old lady, but an energetic one who gardened all day and spent time with me. My parents will likely be 70 by the time I have kids, which makes me a little sad, I am telling them they have to make it to university graduations...Rosemary Riveterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09114557203546642161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-74086624007081213302008-02-06T06:14:00.000+00:002008-02-06T06:14:00.000+00:00Beautiful keepsake china from your Grandmother's.I...Beautiful keepsake china from your Grandmother's.<BR/>I hope my grandchildren have happy memories of me when I am gone.meggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00061112627819270427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-60951695435095651002008-02-06T05:09:00.000+00:002008-02-06T05:09:00.000+00:00I loved reading your post:-) Some of those bits a...I loved reading your post:-) Some of those bits and pieces we inherit are very precious.<BR/><BR/>Sadly my earliest only grandparent memories were of photos. Nana and Grandad B travelled to NZ when I was 14. Then I met Nana C when I went to Scotland aged 19. I feel I missed out on a lot.<BR/><BR/>As you know I'm enjoying being a Nana now. Although I'm trying reasonably hard not to look too much like one!Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17886198661034264422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-44055738928861761132008-02-06T00:45:00.001+00:002008-02-06T00:45:00.001+00:00Cottage Loaf- what nonsense. You don't look much l...Cottage Loaf- what nonsense. You don't look much like a granny either, in my opinion.<BR/><BR/>I remember that vase from my visit. Such a history it has, and it's lovely that you know the story. So many objects keep their histories to themselves.<BR/><BR/>I had a granny like Granny C. I thought I was her favourite, but as I found out later, all of us grandchildren, eight of us, thought the same.<BR/><BR/>Come to think, she was rather a cottage-loaf shape too.fifihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06946945635726214503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-72540777180475569922008-02-06T00:45:00.000+00:002008-02-06T00:45:00.000+00:00I don't have a lot of memories like that in my fam...I don't have a lot of memories like that in my family, ones that are attached to something, you know? But it would be great, I think ... to be able to glance at something in my house and have a little grin over the memory flood.<BR/><BR/>Maybe someday my children and grandchildren will have that, since I wasn't left the legacy of memories that I would have so loved to receive.<BR/><BR/>I've still got a long way to go before I'm thinking of grandchildren though, so in the meantime, thanks for sharing your stories with me. I'm a lover of old things and family treasures, so it was a great read.Brandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10324309910118162466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-14679020079417490912008-02-05T23:23:00.000+00:002008-02-05T23:23:00.000+00:00Was so lovely to read about your family members an...Was so lovely to read about your family members and special possessions, and the memories they trigger. I was lucky enough to have both grandmothers live within a few miles for most of my life. Makes my eyes tear up to think of how I miss them so, now, and they're alive, just far away. I shall go, now and pen a letter to them! :)jkhensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09361228335101924370noreply@blogger.com