Just wondering if anyone knows the secret behind grannys? how come all grans seem to be the most amazing cooks, cook the most amazing cakes and sunday dinners?

is there some magical transition once you become a granny whereby your cooking skills and abilities to embarress people with photo's nobody knew existed increase ten fold?

will we ever be able to extract the DNA of these super grannies and eventually make everyone cook the perfect sunday dinner?

answers and thoughts on a post card ;)

Have you noticed that it is only Grannies who actually allow themselves to be called Gran or Granny who possess these wonderful abilities? "Nan"s are a completely different specimen, but I think it may be something to do with not wanting to admit to being elderly. :confused:

Sadly I have never known my female grandparents, so I have no first hand experience of the amazing Granny magic. :cry:

I'm hoping that the Forum's own Hazel will start a "Rent-a-Gran" scheme so I can find out what I've missed. She sounds like she would be an ace Gran!

Originally posted by Patchy
Have you noticed that it is only Grannies who actually allow themselves to be called Gran or Granny who possess these wonderful abilities? "Nan"s are a completely different specimen, but I think it may be something to do with not wanting to admit to being elderly. :confused:

My 'nan' is nanny and possesses all these wonderful abilities!

I have a proper Grandma. She is fantastic and 84 and I love her for always having her apron on and a home made biccie in the pocket just in case one of us isn't happy and needs a biccie fix. Still makes us all jam and various pickles that you could never find in a supermarket due the unusual ingredients she likes to put together.

But I am very worried that grandmas like mine are going to be extinct since I keep reading about women becoming Grandma's in their thirties.

Do modern Grannies know how to make the perfect Victoria sponge cake? If dried or fresh yeast makes the best loaf? Make proper gravy for the Sunday roast?

Who will unravel old jumpers and knit up squares to make blankets for the 'poor children'.

Darning socks no longer a required skill to be a Grannie.

Who will make all the cakes for the village fetes? Will the Mother Union has no members?

Will all modern Grans look like Liz McDonald?

My mum is Granny to my little boy and unfortunately has none of these abilities. She is rarely available for babysitting as she is too busy partying. She has never baked a cake and sunday dinners are spent recovering from the night before. My little boy still loves her to pieces though!

I've actually gone out with a 'granny' she could if pushed prepare a sunday dinner but I wouldn't of said it was her forte. She can make really good cups of tea and being a granny at 36 has it's good points if only that if I'd of entered her in a 'glamorous granny' competition she would of won hands down.
My own grandparents certainly on my mothers side made me realise there were consequences to my actions, chew every mouthful of food 36 times, don't put your elbows on the table, be polite to older people or you may miss out on the chocolate biscuit for dessert., they really believed children should be seen and not heard.

Thankfully my gran doesn't know how to use the internet so she won't be reading this.

I think my mum cooks a better Sunday dinner than she does! :o :P