by Granny Spear | Dec 24, 2014
I just can’t believe how fast this year has gone, it’s flown by. This will be my 89th Christmas. I can’t remember the first few of course, but I think if I try hard I can remember bits from over 80 of ’em. Christmas when I was a child bears no...
by Granny Spear | Dec 15, 2014
Now let me say right here and now I don’t have a clue about calories and diets, it’s not something I have ever had the time or the inclination to worry about. I have always been solidly built, I remember clearly my mother telling me I was “built for...
by Granny Spear | Nov 27, 2014
We don’t have Thanksgiving here in the UK, even though I think we should. We have much to be thankful for and a day to celebrate those things, rather than the ‘bank holidays’ we have that mean nothing except a day off work. Whatever day you chose to...
by Granny Spear | Nov 24, 2014
Regular readers will be familiar with Granny Spear. Well, in an attempt to make life a little simpler we decided to teach her some of the more familiar on-line/text abbreviations like LOL. It went horribly wrong, this was her reply: Morning HAU? It’s...
by Granny Spear | Nov 19, 2014
We never had rubbish collections at Knowle Cottage. There are two reasons for this, the first is that the council didn’t provide them and the second is there would have been nothing for them to collect. When I see all the huge wheelie bins and piles of plastic...
by Granny Spear | Nov 17, 2014
Plastic toothbrushes didn’t become available until the late 50’s. Before that toothbrushes had wooden handles and the bristles really were bristles, made of boar hair, if I remember right. They were definitely made from some kind of hog hair. Toothpaste...
by Granny Spear | Nov 14, 2014
Years ago there wasn’t the variety of creams, lotions and potions on the market that there is now. I wouldn’t know where to start these days. For those without a pot full of money there was only one choice back in the day, and that was lanolin. Getting...
by Granny Spear | Nov 13, 2014
The weather is starting to chill now, but what we face here in the UK seems nothing compared to what I’m seeing on the TV about the United States. I have no idea what a polar vortex is, but it can’t be good when temperatures are dropping like a stone and...
by Granny Spear | Nov 3, 2014
Years ago the average person couldn’t just pop into a department store and buy a cushion cover, or a rug or whatever, they were way too expensive. Most soft furnishings were home made, usually made from scraps of wool or fabric that had no other use. Peg looms...
by Granny Spear | Nov 2, 2014
I’m going to be 90 in seven months time. Not bad eh? I’ve learned a fair bit over the years. Not stuff that’s in books, I can read and write, but I’m not what you would call an educated woman. Most of my learning has come from life and what it...
by Granny Spear | Oct 16, 2014
What good is an education that doesn’t teach children to be independent thinkers? That doesn’t teach them to look after themselves? As you know I teach crochet at the local high school, and I also have grandchildren, lots of them so I see and hear a good...
by Granny Spear | Oct 9, 2014
On a Wednesday I go into town and have lunch with a bunch of people who are as old and wrinkly as me. Edith says it’s good for me to mix with people of my own age. What she really means is it gets me out of the way for a few hours…bless her she...
