Audrey

Noooo not Audrey Hepburn! Today is/wouldve been my Grandma Audreys birthday, she died about 11yrs ago and every year on this day I like to remember her and what she was like. I know I talk about my Grandparents alot in this blog so I wont go on about it but I just thought i'd share a few memories of her with you.

She was very different to my other Grandma, she was a tall, strong and very ballsy woman who my mum would describe as "firm but fair" She was the kind of lady who you respected! You wouldnt mess with Grandma Audrey!

She was a very spontaneous lady and sometimes i see alot of her in my sisters character. Always ready to go somewhere and do something and a bit bossy! (sorry rachel) She joined us on our childhood holidays to Norfolk and she'd always be up for paddling in the sea with a tea towel on her head that she'd made into a hat to keep her head from getting sunburnt!

Grandma Audrey was the kind of person who would go to a hotel and take all the biscuits, tea, sugar, coffee and in her kitchen she has a basket full of them! She'd say "well ive paid for them so im having them"

I remember going to see Fame and Me and My girl with her at the theatre and she told me to leave my sweet wrapper and rubbish on the floor for the cleaners "it'll give them something to do" she'd say.

My sister and I would stay at her house and one of us would get the real bed and the other would get the camp bed, Grandma Audrey sat on the edge of the camp bed once and it collapsed and to a 9 and 11yr old it was absolutely hilarious! In the room was a shelf full of the secret seven and the famous five books, my uncles football trophies and some beano and bunty books that were left over from their childhoods, its strange how much I remember, I can even remember the smell of the house, it was "soapy" like most grandmas houses but it seems to be a nostalgic smell, ive smelt it in marks and spencer on a few occasions!

Anyway, I just thought id share a little bit about her and my memories of her and I shall raise a glass to her later on and wish her a happy birthday, cheers xx