For Grandad, a gift of love [antikvár]

ASSORTED GRANDADS A grandfather is someone who has at last discovered that only people matter. A grandfather is someone who doesn't care if you've got on the wrong socks. He probably has too. Grandchildren are going where you'll never go. And you've been where they can never go. So you've got a lot to talk about. Real grandads are younger than all the story books. But they snore just as loud. A grandfather is a man whose eyesight, hearing, teeth, legs, stamina, memory and virility aren't what they were - but who seems to be exactly right for being a grandad. A grandfather is someone who has the same sort of vices as his grandchildren - toffees, peppermints, dawdling, coming in late for meals and leaving his greens. It's only when you have grandchildren that you realise all the best books in the library are in the children's section. When the afternoon seems to be disintegrating into a catastrophe of biscuit crumbs and spilled tea, your grandchild leans across the ruin with infinite love and offers you a soggy Garibaldi. ' Womp wum ganda?' .Well, after all, a quick run round with the cleaner when they are gone Grandads who have weathered decades of reproach and warning from their children on the subject of cigarette smoking, give it up overnight when their grandchildren burst into tears and beg them not to die.