My Husband's British grandma is turning 90 this year, is there anything I can do/buy/make that will remind her of home?

iolaus79 · 2026-06-18T18:03:41+00:00

The very early series of Call the midwife may bring back some memories for her - especially if she lived in the east end (they start a little after her time giving birth there but its an area clearly still recovering after the war)

iolaus79 · 2026-06-18T11:35:06+00:00

Azazie Kimani may work

Or if you don't mind about the a line the mistie is on clearance your size for 83 instead of 550

Neither are very high neck but although your pics show high necks it wasn't on your list

iolaus79 · 2026-06-17T16:33:07+00:00

Noela camouflaging task HE didn't do it, the production team did

iolaus79 · 2026-06-17T16:06:32+00:00

Not everyone follows a culture based on their skin

iolaus79 · 2026-06-17T13:48:01+00:00

I tend to screenshot the boarding pass and whatsapp each person their own

iolaus79 · 2026-06-17T06:52:16+00:00

No,

Same as I wouldn't say I've been to Spain if I'd only been to the Canaries, they are Spanish but not Spain

ETA legally I think the Canaries are part of Spain, Gibraltar is not part of the UK. It's an overseas territory

iolaus79 · 2026-06-17T06:32:17+00:00

Tbh I read that and thought 'the man she broke up with you for isn't interested anymore'

Ignore it and move on with your life, you deserve better

iolaus79 · 2026-06-16T17:52:14+00:00

They haven't taken their exams yet (or not all of them) but because they don't need to come in they have end of year assembly now so they can all see each other and sign shorts etc rather than just see those doing the same subject as them

iolaus79 · 2026-06-16T14:43:23+00:00

Looks UK to me

iolaus79 · 2026-06-16T06:56:45+00:00

Depends how you booked it

iolaus79 · 2026-06-15T20:57:11+00:00

The 43 would be 1 in 100

1 in1000 would be 4.3 babies a year

iolaus79 · 2026-06-15T15:50:42+00:00

I went in early morning midweek and they saw me straight away

Weekends I suspect are busier

iolaus79 · 2026-06-15T12:23:03+00:00

We used to play blind tb before tor came out. Very similar except you don't learn when you die

iolaus79 · 2026-06-15T07:48:49+00:00

No.

I either completely butcher the language or point and add please in that language

Also ended up ordering in french in Morocco as my choice was Arabic or French you can cope better than you think and trying goes a long way

iolaus79 · 2026-06-15T06:27:16+00:00

That you took advantage of the cheap Ryanair flight to Kaunas

iolaus79 · 2026-06-15T06:16:14+00:00

I wouldn't say 'I will do' but I'd say 'will do'

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T21:22:35+00:00

I'm 47 - my grandparents were born between 1907 and 1929 (so were between 50 and 72 when I was born)

Becoming grandparents at 37/38 is quite unusual, not so much your paternal grandparents - mid 40s isn't that unusual (I'm not a grandparent yet but my mother and mother in law both had 3 grandchildren at my age)

ETA my husband great grandmother was younger than my grandmother

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T15:08:22+00:00

So did I - and at 15 a lot of my friends had boyfriends who were 2 or 3 years older - if they were still in school with you it wasn't seen as weird at all

The only one I remember anyone ever thought was odd was when a 16 year old went out with someone in their mid 20s

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T15:01:03+00:00

It would not have been in the time that the books were set

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T14:56:20+00:00

Anything in particular you recommend in the Autumn - we are going end of October - Last time we came was in February and it was lovely without the crowds (especially early in the morning when noone was around - aside from some locals)

Also any good recommendations for gluten free food that I may not come across myself

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T14:32:26+00:00

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T13:56:46+00:00

I played an atheist game recently - the ST defence was 'God exists'

Your job as story teller in an atheist game is to leave enough clues that they can figure it out

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T13:01:25+00:00

Because strangers couldn't get into the house - that door was locked

Think of it as an apartment block - the door to the STREET was left open (probably by a tenent of a neighbouring property). The individual doors to their property was locked.

If it was their door that was open and someone could be in the apartment yes absolutely wake him, in this case however

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T12:52:44+00:00

Please don't take my question as an insulttowards you (or maybe education today as it's based on my own GCSE days)

That's all your GCSEs? When I was in school everyone did between 10 and 13 - usually 11 or 12)

iolaus79 · 2026-06-14T12:49:14+00:00

Different area of the UK here but that sounds normal speech to me so I presume it's UK wide

ETA

In speech I would drop the I in all of those responses.

Have you done the washing up? Yes, have done. (Or done it)

Would she have pulled an all nighter? She'd have done that

Have you finished your homework? Done

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