What did your GrandDad teach you?

[Lab 10,979]

Everything i know about game rearing/keeping.............oh and plenty underhand tricks of the trade- old timer style

[forest of dean redneck 11,720]

gave me my first penknife at about 8 years old,made me my first catty out of a privet fork,

 

let me make random stuff in his shed with his old carpentry tools, never did get the knack of wood working lol

 

taught me about dogs and wildlife luckily there was still watervoles back then in my native dorset.

 

all this was back in 79/80,s.

oh and first half pint of woodpecker cider at 13 years,i was allowed 3 half pints of woodpecker or autmn gold cider at weekend evenings when visiting.

 

still remember the twin tub washing machine,black n white portable in kitchen and the old valve set tv in the front room

Edited May 5, 2010 by forest of dean redneck

[oohmydog 82]

My hero was in the 8th army he was part of a team with a mobile anti tank gun he came back after the war with a finger missing and nearly deaf ,he could not settle, and in school holidays would pick me up in is morris traveler and head for Scotland he would put night lines out for fish and at first light we would be cooking what he had caught or we had fried spam all done on a paraffin stove i love spam and sea trout buttys

[Bosun11 537]

That 'you can pick your nose and you can pick your friends but you can't wipe your friends under the couch!'

 

Seriously, for starters, he taught me to swim, not only did that enable me to compete for my country but paved a way to my chosen career in leisure.

So many things came from him, he was apprenticed as a Shipwright, so woodworking skills were taught too, let me have my first knife and taught me the right and wrongs of owning one. He kept a smallholding, Border collies too, only from working stock, the'd do anything for him.

 

Much was learnt as a child, good times, almost idillic, for which I am forever grateful....!

[wrath 0]

Mine taught me how to knit nets.

And to stand still and belt up when the ferret was down.

[Malt 379]

Where do I start? Mine taught me the names of most of the garden birds, the game of rugby, how to talk, read & write (I could read the newspaper before I went to school thanks to him) how to drive..

 

..in fact there's not much he didn't teach me, he was a granddad & father all rolled into one. I could always go to him when I needed to know something about anything. If he didn't know the answers he'd go out of his way to find them for me.

 

He was the biggest male influence in my life, always there for me no matter what, always loving, patient and forgiving.

 

The most important thing he ever taught me was how to be a man and how to express love for my own children though my actions. I try to follow the examples he set, in the hope that my kids will one day hold at least half as much as respect as I held for that little white haired old fella!

[Rake aboot 4,936]

How to smoke a pipe with unrubbed backy.

 

Still got his pipe.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Problem being that the person who i adored as a child, namely my Grandad, died when i was about ten years old.

He taught me a little about the great outdoors, but his death taught me one thing, and thats that smoking kills. He was a big bloke and as hard as nails, regularly fought for money when he was younger and was mad on the British Birds and had a great reputation as a pigeon man. But sadly Lung Cancer claimed his life just as he was to retire. I wish he was around now as i am sure he would have some great stories to tell.

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

fantastic stories lads

[scent 509]

taught me about farming as he was a farmer and a gentle man

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

taught me about farming as he was a farmer and a gentle man

do you still do a bit of farming scent? That is something I wish I could have got into.

Edited May 5, 2010 by cúagusgiorraí

[scent 509]

taught me about farming as he was a farmer and a gentle man

do you still do a bit of farming scent? That is something I wish I could have got into.

no pal but i spent all my summer holidays working on my grand fathers farm milking cows ,feeding the calves and lookin after the sheep.Best holidays i ever had rain,hail ,sleet or snow up and out bringing the cows down for milking at half 5 in the morning and then scraping the yard as we called it after we bring the cattle back up to the fields.Probably the best days i ever had

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

no pal but i spent all my summer holidays working on my grand fathers farm milking cows ,feeding the calves and lookin after the sheep.Best holidays i ever had rain,hail ,sleet or snow up and out bringing the cows down for milking at half 5 in the morning and then scraping the yard as we called it after we bring the cattle back up to the fields.Probably the best days i ever had

it must been. The people of that old generation were and are still nicest and most decent people there are. True Irishmen.

[will.f11 24]

Poaching

[scent 509]

no pal but i spent all my summer holidays working on my grand fathers farm milking cows ,feeding the calves and lookin after the sheep.Best holidays i ever had rain,hail ,sleet or snow up and out bringing the cows down for milking at half 5 in the morning and then scraping the yard as we called it after we bring the cattle back up to the fields.Probably the best days i ever had

it must been. The people of that old generation were and are still nicest and most decent people there are. True Irishmen.

too true ,they appreciated the smaller things in life instead of being materialistic.Where my grandad lived no one ever locked their house doors or car doors ,they were always left open and anyone was made feel welcome .Imagine leaving your doors open these days lol