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As it happens, it is a Granny & Grandpa afternoon and, as Fred is a keen G&G attendee and frequently spends the afternoon crawling round the floor with the children, it makes sense to include the kids in the festivities
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Poor sod! Although they moved into the village some three years ago, his wife has been working in Bristol so doesn’t know many people and the other week he was worrying at me that she was lonely, so I suggested that he tell her about the Granny & Grandpa Club
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Fred accompanies me to the hall, and starts setting out the chairs for the Granny and Grandpa session which is scheduled for this afternoon, the first meeting of the New Year
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she tells me that Heaven is where her granny will go,
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of the team, and even though he might sell his granny, God rest her
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Little Red Gangsta remembered the tales that her Granny had
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sure her lovely Granny would be only too willing to help such a
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heading towards the west, where Granny lived in a little red brick,
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Meanwhile, upon reaching the house where Granny lived, the
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"Hold on a minute, please", said Granny as she lifted a cast iron
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by a Granny using extreme force
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When Granny opened the door to Little Red Gangsta she was so
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Little Red Gangsta loved her Granny very much and didn't think
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Granny into the kitchen, where she gave her the pork joints, the
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Granny and Little Red Gangsta both looked over at the cooker
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a sort of surrogate granny figure, I suppose
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I’m told it was quite a scandal at the time, my Granny
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RS called unexpectedly with her little boy – James is nearly ten now and greeted me with a big hug, calling me Granny B and asking me what I did when I was his age
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No, I can’t destroy his Granny’s life – no Granny has the right to do that
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trying, as Tom’s Granny might have put it, to look intelligent
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Outwardly, Tom’s Granny was a rather fierce old woman, proud
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Granny was in receipt of occasional sums of money, gifts whose
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From Granny herself, he had learnt the virtues of hard work,
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Granny that he would be working with his “Uncle”, as a sort of
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Granny about his parents
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Granny had sat Tom down with a cup of tea in the parlour, then
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Granny paused again, shaking her head slowly
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“There’s one further thing,” Granny said, after a reflective pause,
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“digesting”, as Tom’s granny would have said
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to Tom like the time he had left his home with Granny after he was
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Granny would probably have said
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succumbed to copious quantities of what Tom’s Granny would have
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Granny would have said
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He distinctly remembered seeing Granny looking at the three of
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Brad and Lizzie were offered tea by Granny, which they
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young Tom while Granny bustled off to put the kettle on
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ages to a child, Granny entered the room carrying a tray of tea things,
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There was a pause for a moment, before Granny responded
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“And they left me with Granny,” Tom breathed
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“He was an Irishman,” Granny rebutted
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Granny returned to the conversation
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Granny changed gears on us
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Mother, father, and granny were enchanted by the
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Only Grandpa, Granny and Seaboy, wedged between his parents, were there
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"Beauty and Sky have popped down to the village to explain to your family's why you are late" Granny said with a twinkle
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Granny smiled at them both and patting Nimblefax on the head she said, "That's Seaboy's gift
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Granny was feeding Lemoss's Uncle Todd's shire horses with a bucket of oats and chopped vegetables
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When the whole family had seated themselves around the table and Granny had poured out mugs of raspberry vinegar, Grandpa clapped his hands for silence
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"You've never had need of money Grandpa so you might just alter that statement of yours," Granny wagged her finger in Grandpa's direction
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"Granny Wellbeloved's farm at Rose Mead" said Lemoss, "Its in Knoal
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"Its not the twelve I'm worried about, its the thirteenth one that gives me grave cause for concern" Miss Pringle glared forbiddingly, "Granny always said the Plateau had many moods and not to take them lightly, keep to the road and all will be well she used to tell us when we did geography
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Granny seemed nervous about the planned excursion and about Nimblefax not being allowed to go with the group
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"I'd like you and Flitter to take one of these with you just in case" Granny handed Lemoss two of her silver gilt teaspoons
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"Granny specifically told us its not a place for strangers to visit
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" Granny took another piece of pie and put on a clean plate as Rosecare entered the kitchen
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"How can you tell?" asked Lemoss more to Rosecare than to Granny
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" said Granny severely, and they all laughed as she ushered them all out
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"My," said Granny as she twirled past Fizzicist, "What wonderful music to be sure Mr
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Granny had prepared fruit punch and pikelets for them and her brow furrowed as Lemoss related what Miss Pringle had said
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Later, by Granny 's own account, both Grandpa and Sky went to see Mr
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Grandpa had told Granny that Mr
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Granny had arrived with several large hampers and jugs of cool lemonade
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"In for a long day I expect Granny" called Mr
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"Poets are one thing, massive machinery another Granny, no hurricane on earth can stop what's happening up there, look do you see, the tarmac lorries are half way up already
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Dingle does like a tidy garden as much as you like apple and blackberry pie" said Granny as she packed the last of the plates and cups into her enormous hamper
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And one fine Sum day when all was humming with bees and sweet nectar the valley was shaken by a roaring that even made Granny look out of her kitchen window in suprise
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" Granny dried her hands on her apron as Lemoss dried the last cup
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Granny picked one from the drawer and polished it with her apron and there in the reflection stood the cozy home on Rocky Mount
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Granny spooned another cup for Lemoss as he sat down
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Tristan had won two by two, and Granny led them all away for tea and scones in the marquee
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“Ah yes,” said Granny with a knowing smile
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“You shouldn’t have told them about the Wellbelove’s Miss Prim, Granny won’t thank you for sending those rogues to her
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Granny seated them around the table and they greedily tucked into her scones
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Granny touched the snake and it became a glass jug
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“As soon as Granny has had her little chat, come this way and have some tea outside
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Gretchen and her Granny
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Granny started out for her morning's work in the forest
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These were carefully gathered into a large bundle which Granny tied
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In the summer time Granny had a little garden at the back of the hut
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Still, Granny and Gretchen were very happy, because they loved
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in the hut, because Granny would have some work to do in the village
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Sometimes, when the weather was fine, or her Granny had an extra bundle
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Granny knew that this meant she wanted to talk about
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"Yes, dearie," said Granny, "only five more days now," and then she sighed, but little Gretchen was so happy that she did not notice
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"Ah, child, child," said Granny, shaking her head, "you'll have no Christmas this year
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"Well, Granny," said Gretchen, "perhaps some of the little children who live in the great house on the hill at the other end of the village
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"Dear child, dear child," said Granny, leaning forward and stroking the soft, shiny hair of the little girl, "your heart is full of love
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Granny sighed, as she half whispered, "Poor child, poor child!" but
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show Granny how the wind had made the snow dance that day
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so droll and funny that Granny forgot her cares and worries and laughed
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preparing a surprise for Granny
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When Granny came trudging wearily home that
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Here was a new surprise for Granny
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full of music to poor, tired Granny, whose heart had been sad as she
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little while thinking it over; then Granny rose and said that it was
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said, "Granny, don't you think that somebody in all this wide world
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out: "Ah, Granny, you don't talk enough to the stars
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"Oh, Granny! Oh, Granny!" she exclaimed, "you didn't believe the Christmas angels would think about us, but see, they have, they have!
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Granny came forward and looked at what the child was holding lovingly
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That evening Granny taught her a Christmas hymn and told