Posted by GrannyRant on January 7, 2013 in
GRUMBLINGS,
JUST SAYING
Tweet Dry January (DJ) – Day 6. Is this Menopause, or abstinence I ask myself? I have never thought that I had a problem with drink but now I am not so sure. I wasn’t dependent on it, after all, I regularly take days off. However, I am definitely a habitual drinker. It goes with, [...]
Tags: age, Alcoholics, Booze, CHRISTMAS, Dry January, flushes, menopause, wine, woman, WOMEN
Posted by GrannyRant on June 10, 2012 in
JUST SAYING
Tweet Good afternoon…Granny calling. Would you Adam and Eve it, I have been married three weeks already! We had a great day and the sun actually shone throughout the entire event. This is pretty amazing bearing in mind that in Wales, we are currently experiencing the wettest weather on record with flood warnings, gale force [...]
Tags: & GROOM, age, BEDWELLTY HOUSE, BRIDES, CHLDREN, family, HONEYMOON, MAJORCA, marriage, people, TREDEGAR, weather, WEDDINGS
Posted by GrannyRant on May 16, 2012 in
GRUMBLINGS,
MINI RANT,
RANTS
Tweet Three days to go before I get married for the third time. I know “you must be mad” I hear you cry! This time I know it will be good. I know this man better than I know my own children! I am surprisingly calm – or so I thought. Everything’s bought and paid [...]
Tags: age, beach, bride, menopause, sleep, tired, weather, wedding, WOMEN
Posted by GrannyRant on January 15, 2012 in
JUST SAYING,
STORIES, POEMS AND FUNNIES
Tweet They eat, they drink, they reminisce of days gone by. they do all the things they have always told you not to do. They eat with their mouths full, they talk of religion and politics, with their elbows firmly on the table. They drink too much wine and even spill some. Eyes bigger than [...]
Tags: age, family, food, MEN, mother, old, people, senior citizens, sunday lunch
Posted by GrannyRant on December 12, 2011 in
GRUMBLINGS,
RANTS
Tweet I remember it well, Sunday night listening to the chart show on the radio, Mam combing lumps out of my long red hair looking for nits. Eating the left-overs from Sunday lunch for supper and watching my Dad making his sandwiches for the early shift down the pit. They looked old to me then, [...]
Tags: age, Booze, facebook, menopause, old, people, Twitter
Posted by GrannyRant on October 24, 2011 in
GRUMBLINGS,
RANTS
Tweet Sweaty Betty here again, after another night of sweating and shivering, I am back at my desk (right now its coffee time). Coffee…now there’s a thing, the dilemma is to drink it or not to drink it? Due to lack of sleep doing my Karate Kid impression, (duvet on….duvet off…duvet on…..), I now resemble [...]
Tags: age, BBC, coffee, GRUMBLINGS, Grumpy, Health and safety, MEN, menopause
Posted by GrannyRant on September 26, 2011 in
GRUMBLINGS,
RANTS
Tweet As readers of this blog will be aware, I am going through the madness that is menopause. “Nothing wrong with that, perfectly normal”, I hear you say. Well let me tell you right now…normal it is not! To give future sufferers the head up, I have devised a series of helpful hints that go [...]
Tags: age, clack cohosh, evening primrose, flushes, GRUMBLINGS, knickers, menopace, menopause, people, woman, WOMEN, work
Posted by GrannyRant on August 5, 2011 in
GRUMBLINGS,
JUST SAYING
Tweet OK, so here’s the thing, I am 53, I have 3 grown up children and 5 grandchildren, I have been with the same man for 11 years and now, after I thought it would never happen, he’s proposed! I am bowled over, flattered, happy, ecstatic in fact, as I know this is the man [...]
Tags: age, BRIDAL, BRIDES, children, COLOUR, family, fat, MEN, people, WEDDINGS, woman
Posted by GrannyRant on June 18, 2011 in
GRUMBLINGS,
JUST SAYING,
RANTS
Tweet At the risk of embarrassing my family…I would like to discuss TITS! AKA Melons, Bazookas, Boobs, Breasts, Bitty, Bosoms and a raft of other colloquial nicknames. Men and I suppose some lesbians, seem to love them and often in conversation with large chested women of ample cleavage, cannot avert their eyes away from these [...]
Tags: age, boobs, breast is best, children, cow&gate, fashion, GRUMBLINGS, Health and safety, MEN, siblings, Tits, woman, WOMEN
Posted by GrannyRant on May 31, 2011 in
GRUMBLINGS,
JUST SAYING,
RANTS
Tweet Today…is my birthday and I must say I am feeling particularly satisfied with my lot. I have just returned from a holiday on Symi in the Greek Islands, I have another three week jaunt to Europe planned in seven weeks time, I am happily ensconced in a long term relationship and my children have [...]
Tags: age, birthday, children, fat, GRUMBLINGS, language, life, sickness, woman