Really fond times i had with my nan,as i was growing up
By jugsjugs
@jugsjugs (12967)
September 13, 2010 11:38am CST
I was thinking back to all of the great times that i had with my nan,as i was growing up.We use to go to jumble sales,bingo aswell as the pub.On Saturdays we use to go to the village cake shop and always without fail got all of us a cream cake or two.Well the cake shop is still there,that is still ran by the same people and the pub is still there in the village,but no more jumble sales.
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@Memnon (2170)
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13 Sep 10
My grand parents all passed away before I was 8-10. So there was little that we did together.
I don't know if the pubs and local store are still around where I used to live. Where I now live a lot of pubs have been demolished and replaced by flats.
@jugsjugs (12967)
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13 Sep 10
My nan passed away 8 years ago and i have really good memories of her.I think that there are alot of village pubs that are gone now,which is a real shame,as that was a great place for the older geraration to meet up and have a chat.The jumble sales were a thing that me and my nan loved,as alot of her friends were great fun,even though they were getting on abit.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
13 Sep 10
Hiya jugs,
Where I come from everything has changed so much except for the Public House in Coventry Street and that is still going amazing because the whole lot has changed out of recognition.
I did´nt have a Nan that did that take me to a Cake Shop but she did do cook us meals so it´s the same kind of thing.
@jugsjugs (12967)
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13 Sep 10
Apple pies are the thing that remind me of my nans cooking,also walnut cake,as these are the things that she would always cook for me and always made me loads to take home.The cake shop was a place that we would go to on a Saturday and get a few cream cakes from,without fail when i went to see her.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Sep 10
Hiya Jugs,
So lucky to have a Nan like that. I cannot remember ever going to a Cake Shop like that but my Nan had very little money also which is another reason too.
She would have left that up to my Mom thinking that she had more which she did´nt either. It is really nice to have those memories though is´nt it?
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
13 Sep 10
My grandmother raised me as a child, so there wasn't really a time when I wasn't with her. She took care of my brother and I because our fathers weren't really in the picture and my mother had to work. My grandmother would take us to her doctors appointments and our doctors appointments. She would take us to the store, and she would buy us treats every now and then. She also taught me how to garden and clean up the house.
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
14 Sep 10
Yeah, my grandmother taught me how to knit, but I am not very good at it. I am sorry about your grandmother. That isn't easy.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
13 Sep 10
i CHERISH THE MEMORIES I HAVE OF TIMES W/MY GRANDPARENTS. tHEY WERE THE BEST PEOPLE IN MY LIFE EXCEPT FOR MY CHILDREN & GRANDS.
@jugsjugs (12967)
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13 Sep 10
My nan passed away nearly 8 years ago,we were quite close and i was forever popping over to see her at her house and having a laugh with her.She use to love all those jumble sales as it was a place where people her age would gather together and catch up.aswell as get me to meet all her friends.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
14 Sep 10
I know u do miss her, i do mine to.My last grandmother passed away about 12 years ago. She lived to be 92.She was a sweetheart to me all my life.
@doormouse (4599)
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13 Sep 10
i was never close to my grandma like you were with yours,but we used to go over there every couple of months for the day,i used to play scrabble on her really old computer,and i also helped my grandad pick the peas and berries out of the back garden
@jugsjugs (12967)
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13 Sep 10
My nan was really great fun,as she was a really with it nan.She always cooked apple pie,when ever she got told that i was going to see her,aswell as a walnut cake and buns and anything else that she could think of,so i could take them home with me.She loved her bingo,jumble sales and even her cream cakes.
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
13 Sep 10
After reading the responses I am getting hungry. Cream cake sounds SOO good! What is a jumble sale? In the US we have flea markets. That is where people go set up a table and sell their old stuff or new stuff really cheap. Is a jumble sale like that?
@jugsjugs (12967)
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13 Sep 10
Yes the jumble sales were like the flea markets that you have,we have car boot sales now,where people sell the things that they no longer want out of their car boots.I think that the jumble sales were great as they were all in halls and there were always raffles and other things that you could win.The best cake shop i have ever been to was in my nans village.
@eshaan (6188)
• India
18 Sep 10
hmmm...i too enjoy passing through those old streets...when i go to the town where i lived before marriage..now also the same shops are there...though the owner faces have changed slightly due to age...at some places the senior people are no more and the business is carried further by their sons or grandsons .....the slight changes still make you feel like a stranger at your own birth place 
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
15 Sep 10
U are lucky to be able to spend time with your nan while growing up.. haha =D I'm not staying with my nan, but i dun really like my nan alot too. Though she dotes on me and my brother, but somehow, i find her a little scary.. lol =D As she's old, and me being young, her wrinkled face, with white hair makes her look like a witch to me.. lol =D
PLus, she's always talking in a language i dun quite understand, and thus i'm scare of her.. hehe 
@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Sep 10
What is a 'jumble sale'? Our town(capitol city actually) has lost all those special places where my nan and I used to go. The good samaritan, grand central, and a little neighborhood bascque grocery. Kinda sad how thing go out of business and disappear. All about change and money.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
14 Sep 10
I am so happy for you because you have the beautiful memories with your grandmother. I had a lovely gran who passed away when I was only five and all I had left was my maternal grandmother who was a witch of a woman; she was damaged as a child and therefore treated her children and grandchildren with no real affection to speak of and a lot of criticism…She has been gone many years now and sadly, my daughter lost her paternal lovely grandma just a couple of years ago and is now left with another witch...My mother!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
15 Sep 10
My grandmother passed away nearly four years ago and there really isn't a day that goes by where I don't miss her. That said, I remember when I was younger every time we went to spend the weekend with my grandparents, we would always go shopping. She took me to K-Mart and to Big Lots and my favorite of all was the Penney's Outlet. I think that it is because of my grandmother that I have such a love of shopping. In fact, the last time that we went out before she passed away was to go shopping here in town.
@Sanitary (3968)
• Singapore
14 Sep 10
That's nice. I never had the experience of being with a nan because my mom is a housewife. She has been taking care of me since baby, never allowing others to take care of me. No matter how busy and tired she is, she will always place me in her priority.
I won't mind having a nan to care for me, because i believe it will be alot more fun. As u know, parents are kind of strict at times.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
14 Sep 10
I remember cake shops. They are so few and far between now. I remember fairy cakes, cream buns and cream horns, apple turnovers and lamingtons...lots and lots of cakes, pastries and pies and making a decision took ages and we would be staring in the window for such a long time.
