Comments on: Do you have a Story to Tell http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/ I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-780 Grannymar Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:43:39 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-780 Welcome Gary, keep writing. Now I am off to find a cure for a welled head... Thank you kind people. Welcome Gary, keep writing.

Now I am off to find a cure for a welled head…

Thank you kind people.

]]> By: Gary http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-779 Gary Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:35:27 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-779 You are absolutely correct, everyone should write something of their life even if its just to answer the questions that their own children will have of them when they are long gone. I started after I heard a local historian on the radio once tell of how the greatest frustration of his hobby, and also the greatest find that he could make, was that people in the past had not kept personal diaries - as he explained we all know everything there is to know about Queen Victoria, but yet how much more interesting would the diary of her cook or housemaid be ? Its why I blog and its why I've started writing biographical stories on another web site. You are absolutely correct, everyone should write something of their life even if its just to answer the questions that their own children will have of them when they are long gone.

I started after I heard a local historian on the radio once tell of how the greatest frustration of his hobby, and also the greatest find that he could make, was that people in the past had not kept personal diaries - as he explained we all know everything there is to know about Queen Victoria, but yet how much more interesting would the diary of her cook or housemaid be ?

Its why I blog and its why I’ve started writing biographical stories on another web site.

]]> By: Nancy http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-778 Nancy Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:21:02 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-778 Steph: Hear Hear!!!!!!!!! Grannymar is the best. Steph:

Hear Hear!!!!!!!!! Grannymar is the best.

]]> By: steph http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-777 steph Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:51:34 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-777 "Baino - you have a wonderful way with words". Look who's talking! GM - you are the bee's knees when it comes to having a way with words! “Baino - you have a wonderful way with words”. Look who’s talking! GM - you are the bee’s knees when it comes to having a way with words!

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-776 Grannymar Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:32:47 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-776 Baino if you tell it like you blog then they are sure to remember. You have a wonderful way with words. Baino if you tell it like you blog then they are sure to remember.

You have a wonderful way with words.

]]> By: Baino http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-775 Baino Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:24:16 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-775 Too true there's much to be said for sitting at the dinner table and turning off the TV. Sadly, many of our storytellers are long gone by the time we're old enough to take interest. Therefore, I bore my children with tales of past and family, whether they ask or not. I think they process the information . . .then again maybe all they hear is 'bla bla bla' Too true there’s much to be said for sitting at the dinner table and turning off the TV. Sadly, many of our storytellers are long gone by the time we’re old enough to take interest. Therefore, I bore my children with tales of past and family, whether they ask or not. I think they process the information . . .then again maybe all they hear is ‘bla bla bla’

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-774 Grannymar Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:07:17 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-774 Nonny you should write some of her stories Nonny you should write some of her stories

]]> By: Nonny http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-773 Nonny Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:34:16 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-773 Evening folks you are in deed right I used to do a bit of voluntary work and I still visit one lady in particular, we are very good friends, even in my travelling days I would write to her from time to time when I wasn’t pissed and could remember her name that is. Anyway, I still visit her now which was initially for company but now she bullies me and makes me do shitty jobs, I am 25 and a quarter I think she thinks I’m about 12ish but she has had the most amazing life, she has two sons who live abroad and whilst she adores them I never here of them contacting her. I can and sometimes do listen to her for hours, I can never understand how people don’t take time to do the same. Evening folks you are in deed right I used to do a bit of voluntary work and I still visit one lady in particular, we are very good friends, even in my travelling days I would write to her from time to time when I wasn’t pissed and could remember her name that is. Anyway, I still visit her now which was initially for company but now she bullies me and makes me do shitty jobs, I am 25 and a quarter I think she thinks I’m about 12ish but she has had the most amazing life, she has two sons who live abroad and whilst she adores them I never here of them contacting her. I can and sometimes do listen to her for hours, I can never understand how people don’t take time to do the same.

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-772 Grannymar Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:39:10 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-772 Glad you enjoyed it Wisewebwoman and thanks for your tips. Glad you enjoyed it Wisewebwoman and thanks for your tips.

]]> By: Wisewebwoman http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2007/09/04/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/#comment-770 Wisewebwoman Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:31:50 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=240#comment-770 Very good topic, GM and co-incidentally this came up tonight over din with friends (all grandmothers). Our stories are so important. I am lucky in that many of my family's history has been serialized (by me) in magazine for my family to read but others need to put pen to paper or voice to tape or even find one of those help books to clarify what needs to be put down. Very good topic, GM and co-incidentally this came up tonight over din with friends (all grandmothers). Our stories are so important. I am lucky in that many of my family’s history has been serialized (by me) in magazine for my family to read but others need to put pen to paper or voice to tape or even find one of those help books to clarify what needs to be put down.

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