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00I would be grateful if you could correct my answers. There is a couple of words I didn't find, though. 02br
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00I was wondering the other day where all the grannies had gone. I don’t mean the people who are grannies because they have grandchildren, but the one who used to be about when I was younger. 02br
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00I think a granny ought to look a certain way, so that it sticks out a 1. LITTLE (?) that she is one. 02br
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00Ideally shoe should be smallish and round – comfy and cosy. It would be nice if she sat in a 2. ROCKING chair and crocheted. By a warm fire – a real one – not your posh electric or gas ones with 3. ARTIFICIAL flames and logs. 02br
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00I think she ought to wear her slippers, and have a canary in a cage, and a window 4. SILL with geraniums. Her hair would be that 5. ……………–white that shows up a pale pink skin and very bright eyes, and she would smile a lot. I forgot the cat. There should be a cat 6. LYING by the fire. The kettle would always be ready to make a pot of tea, and there would be 7. SEVERAL cakes. 02br
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00The trouble as I see it is that today’s grannies all look wrong. They don’t have white hair any more – they have a rinse. They wear make-up and have National Health teeth and go 8. WALKING about playing bingo, and don’t sit and be cosy anymore. 02br
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00My grannies would have time to listen to one’s 9. STORIES / CONFIDENCES (?) and make 10. SOME (?) noises, and when you touched them, they would be soft and yielding, like cushions. The modern ones are all slimline and brittle, and are too busy moving about the place. 02br
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00I think we should set about seeing if we can’t bring back the Old-Time Granny. There’s a need for them – they’ve left a huge 11. GAP / EMPTINESS / VOID in our lives. We can all do with somewhere and somebody we can go to and be “cosy” every so often. 02br
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00Still, perhaps nobody but me feels this way. I suppose I’m always thinking backwards instead of forwards, but I’d still like my Old Grannies back again. 02br
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00It’s a 12. RECURRENT (?) thought that I may be a granny myself one day, though. At the moment, I don’t 13. MIND sitting and rocking, with a cat or anything else. Or crocheting and making pots of tea and little buns, and smiling all the time and being cosy. I think I would want to head for the great outdoors and the bingo hall, and have my hair and teeth fixed, too. 02br
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00I suppose, if the experts are right and we’re all going to live longer than ever before, my Old Grannies are completely redundant. No, I’ve just got to 14. ACCEPT the facts, stop going backwards and 15. LIVE with the times. I shall try to put the idea out of my mind. 02br
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00A thousand thanks, 02br
00Hela 0-