What did your GrandDad teach you?

[FightTheBan 1,147]

How not to rear a dog.

He had an old basset called sophie and she was the biggest pot-licker you ever seen, the old softie!.

 

FTB

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

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

your right mate. It's still very much that way out in my parish. but it's changing fast.

Edited May 5, 2010 by cúagusgiorraí

[tomnobes 1]

how to wear a flat cap (i am stil wearing one of his when i'm out ferreting) how to lean on a stick and poaching trout! i miss my grandad.

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

how to wear a flat cap

 

[rob.i 26]

My Grandads wise words were if yer doin owt bent do it yerself

[Tis TM 8]

My Grandad died when I was 8 but I remember him vividly...

 

He taught me a moto that I stick by today, and thats - If a job's worth doing it's worth doing well....

 

He taught me that chubby Grandads in Stripey blue pyjama's can do funny chicken dances in the middle of the garden, regularly if they wish

 

He taught me that Brylcreem makes a Grandads hair "Feel like Gossamer"

 

and he taught me how to pour a perfect G&T!!!

 

I so loved my Grandad and wish he had more time in this world.

[Guest stewie]

good topic mate!!! i never knew my dads dad but he had greyhounds in the 50s-60s thats what got my old man into them and know all these years on ive got one!! really wish i met him tho no one has a bad thing to say about him all say he was a top bloke. my other grandad was a top man too really nice and polite to all the grandkids and loved the countryside too always down his allotment grafting away on the plot just to give it all away in the end!!! the one thing i will always remember him saying is "dont do tomorrow what you can do today" shame i dont always stick to it hope your good mate

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

Never turn your back while singing a song in a room, for there are them that might want to make faces at ye, great folk singer he was.

[bedrock 16]

Two of my Grandads trampled all around the world fighting in the war. One was in the navy the other was in the army. They lived hard lives but were good men. They both died underground one from a cave in and the other from a heart attack.

I never met one and I was to young to remember the other.

All I have are stories and photographs.

You lot are lucky to have such fond memories of you grandparents.

 

I suppose I learnt something from them though don’t mine coal for a living...

[Wild_and_Irish 11]

Got my first snares and pen knives from him, he taught me how to sharpen a knife, the names of all the wild birds, how to snare, how to trap, got me interested in fishing and hunting, wouldn't enjoy those things if he hadn't taught me, wouldn't be on this site actually

[gonetoearth 5,144]

BOTH ROYAL NAVY BOTH OLD SCHOOL

AND I KNOW ONE THING FOR CERTAIN

THEY WILL BOTH BE TURNING IN THEIR

GRAVES THE WAY THIS COUNTRY HAS GONE

[judge2010 196]

gave me the bug to one day go rabbiting, when i went to his house we took the dogs a walk which always stayed close to us then got to a certain bit in the world and they disapeared and all you so were two terriers killing and retriving rabbits to hand.

[Keeps 403]

My grandad taught me to love nature and appreciate the countryside around me. He served in the second world war in Egypt in the Royal Signals. He loved to be out in the countryside. In the last couple of years he suffered from dementia, which is very hard to live with - I do understand what you're going through now cúagusgiorraí. He died last month at the grand old age of 92. My grandad was a wonderful man who never had a bad word for anyone, he had a child-like outlook on life and was determined to enjoy himself and never complained about anything. I miss him terribly

 

[the_stig 6,614]

if its shit its shit dont kidd yourself otherwise.. a pedigree aint worth the paper its written on .. cull hard keep the best .. a profits a profit however small.. (in 1980)get yourself a good pension coz it wont be worth feck all when you get to state pension age ..buy yourself a little plot of land.. and dont fight southpaws..

[ben1191 9]

Dont know either of my grandads