Today is National Grandparents Day.
Let's hear it for all of us oldies!
Apparently it's been celebrated here in the UK since 1990 but I've never heard of it before. It seems my grandkids haven't either; wake up, boys! Where are the flowers, chocs, bottles of wine, tins of caviar? Maybe a tiny card?
I'll be celebrating it watching football (o-oh, half my audience just left; I should have left that until the end). Imbibing the wine and chocs I have supplied for myself 😒
In Canada, National Grandparents Day was initiated in 1995 then discontinued in 2014. Presumably because they didn't get any wine or chocs so why bother? The French version is sponsored by a coffee company. Costa, send me some beans; I've been a customer for years! The Taiwanese day was started by the Ministry of Education. Gavin, are you listening?
I could find no record of a National Grandparents Day in Russia, North Korea or Sweden. Meanies.
Boys, in case you think grandpeople are losing their marbles - Albert Einstein was a grandpa and no-one ever accused him of being crazy. Although he was reputed to have formulated his theory of relativity after dreaming about cows being electrocuted
I have just five grandchildren. Way behind Wilson Kettle, a Canadian, who had 65. Yep, you heard that correctly. He's in the Guinness Book of World Records; as he should be. He lived to the age of 102. I bet he got some chocolates.
I’ve never heard of it either. Neither has my dear husband, but if flowers, wine and chocs are meant to be sent, then I’m now in possession of that information.
ReplyDeleteBut it’s October 4th. A huge day of celebration. It’s the feast of St Francis. When I taught at St Francis in Pecham many years ago the children had double length playtimes, the staff had cakes and wine (it was the 70s before the killjoys took over) and we had films in the hall in the afternoon - animal themed of course. I really missed that when I moved on.
Anyway, we’ll drink a toast to distant co grandparents very shortly. Cheers.
(And I did get past the swear word).